'Prometheus 2' Won't Involve Damon Lindelof, So Fanboys Can't Blame Him
When Prometheus 2 inevitably begins with Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender's head splitting up for some reason, you won't be able to hold Damon Lindelof on that one.
'Prometheus' Deleted Scene: Engineer Speaks, Sounds Klingon
If you still haven't gotten around to Prometheus, you should stop reading this now. Okay? But if you have watched the film, you probably recall that when David translates Weyland's message to the revived Engineer, the Engineer's reply comes swiftly and silently in the form of beheading and bludgeoning. That guy did not give a SHIT. But: suppose he did give just a little bit of a shit, and first gave a real huffy response to Weyland's plea before doing anything to anyone's head. As will be seen on the forthcoming Prometheus Blu-ray, here's how that would have worked out:
'Prometheus' Almost Had This Bonus Mutant Freak
The impending Blu-ray release of Prometheus is expected to finally answer some of the film's lingering questions, among them, "Were there ever any more gross freaks in this thing?" The expected answer: yup! According to Cinefex (via) the disc's bonus features will include a scene that reveals the ginger, punk geologist was once going to mutate into the above "digital character with elongated limbs and an engorged, transluscent head"--which, as best I can recall, is way grosser than the mutant freak that actually made it into the film. See those elongated limbs below, and then everything about Prometheus will suddenly make sense.
'Prometheus' Sequel Set to Create Heated, Nerdy Debates in 2014 or '15
As if Prometheus didn't have enough poor, questionably-motivated decisions in its lengthy story, now Ridley Scott and 20th Century Fox have made official their plan to move forward on a sequel to the film.
'Prometheus' Species Origin Chart Pretty Much Sums It Up
This graphical Prometheus species origin chart probably will not clear up any of the problems you did or did not have with the Alien sort-of-prequel's logistics/science/forced-drama, but it does function as a pretty good reminder of exactly what I'm prettttty sure writers Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof were asking us to swallow regarding the film's genetic combinations. The only thing I might add is that Guy Pearce + Makeup & CGI = Inexplicably-Expensive Way To Make an Old Guy. (Spoilers below, of course.)
'Prometheus' Viral Thing Still Going: Watch Guy Pearce Drink!
Prometheus is now in theaters and making quite a lot of money for not containing Ben Stiller's CGI wildlife, yet still its so-called viral campaign continues. As discovered by MovieViral, the end credits of the film held a clue teasing the date 10-11-12 and leading to the below video of Guy Pearce sipping whiskey and quoting Nietzsche like the most pretentious college sophomore.
Is 'Prometheus' Still Super Intense-Looking When Made of Paper?
It weirdly is, assures this entirely paper-animated Prometheus trailer from Travis Betz. But now it's slightly more super-intense in the sense that, wow, the intro sequence to this quirky indie comedy is getting pretty bizarrely heavy, isn't it?
First 'Prometheus' Clip: Robot Michael Fassbender Seems Like a Bit of an A-Hole
In the Alien series, androids have played the parts of both benevolent heroes and pompous, secretive assholes who need to be shoved into a wall and eventually decapitated. With this first clip from Prometheus that premiered on last night's Tonight Show, it's starting to look like Michael Fassbender's David is probably going to fall into the latter camp. Have a look below, and stay tuned for Headlines.
Coors Light Declared 'Prometheus' of Beers, Sort Of
Just as Prometheus is sort of a prequel to Alien, concerned with the search for answers about humanity, Coors Light is sort of a beer, concerned with the search for forgetting whatever answers about humanity have led one to spend an evening pounding Coors Lights. So, like Heineken with Skyfall and, less officially, Budweiser with Adam Sandler's wig, Coors Light has formed a partnership with Ridley Scott's Prometheus, starting with the below commercial that attempts to form a connection between "the thirst for knowledge" and the thirst for the third or fourth cheapest option for an alcoholic drink you can buy thirty of. Michael Fassbender can hardly wait for someone to pour some into his android feeding tube!
'Prometheus' Has Another Viral Video Thing
Another chapter of a viral campaign that has included staging a TED talk of the future and stuffing Michael Fassbender in a dry cleaning bag, here's a Prometheus promo in which Noomi Rapace's Dr. Elizabeth Shaw beseeches Peter Weyland to fund an outer space venture that, thanks to the trailers, we now know leads to a whole fucking lot of screaming.
With just Rapace's monologue and some overlaid scanning graphics, this video is pretty tame compared to all the super-intense previews we've seen in the past, but if you add your own soundtrack of constant panicked bellowing, it does make it a little more intense, so keep that option open.
Still Another Super-Intense 'Prometheus' Trailer
There have been a lot of Prometheus trailers. Enough that the hysterical screams to "CUT IT OFF" and "GET IT OFF" have now taken on the comforting familiarity of a panicked, screamed lullaby. Still, there is yet another trailer, and for better or worse, this one reveals the most footage yet: More plot. More Charlize Theron sternness. More awful alien cobra creature. More oh shit, bro, it turns out your protective mask is absolutely worthless and is now melting apart like filthy saran wrap placed too-early over a freshly-baked face pie. IT IS INTENSE.
'Prometheus' Has Really Cool Product Video for Michael Fassbender the Robot
Like the last viral video for Prometheus, this latest video focuses on Michael Fassbender's David, a "cybernetic individual" designed to nearly indistinguishable from mankind. This time, the viral runs like a full promotional video for the David product, freeing Fassbender from his dry cleaning bag womb so that he might answer some questions about his abilities. And according the footage, he has quite a few abilities: He can assist employees! He can play chess! He can carry out directives his human counterparts might find "...distressing, or unethical," which sure sounds like an ominous portent of what's to come in Prometheus... But, hey, forget that! David can also smell flowers! And he can think about angels, in case you want David to function as your smiling grandmother gazing out her front porch screen. Though he feels no emotion, David can also be brought to tears by thoughts of war and poverty. Listening to "Imagine" on headphones just fucking wrecks him, I bet.
Meet David yourself with the video below. Don't worry: yes, David can paint your little train set people for you.
Glut of 'Prometheus' Trailers Leads to Intensity Surplus
Here are a couple more Prometheus trailers, these offering some of the most revealing, compelling shots yet. Like the last trailer, they are super intense, and if you are functional, they will probably leave you really wanting to see Prometheus. They might also leave you wishing you had not spoiled so much of the movie by previewing and dissecting every bit of footage you could run past your skull. You have to decide if it's worth sort of spoiling this stuff now, or if it's better to hold out for longer shots of Leeloo with the Dragon Tattoo run around in her undies. This is one of those "first world problems" you've heard your internet chums meme about.
'Prometheus' Viral Stuffs Michael Fassbender in a Dry Cleaning Bag
A follow-up to Prometheus's mock-futuristic TED Talk--in which Weyland Corporation head Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce) described making "cybernetic individuals" indistinguishable from humans--here's a brief video of one such cybernetic individual being brought to life. Turns out the miracle of android birth looks a lot like pouring some milk into a plastic baggie filled with sugar cubes and passed-out-drunk Michael Fassbender:
Full 'Prometheus' Trailer Super Intense
The latest Prometheus trailer's audio track alone is enough to send anxious minds into a panic attack: the pounding soundtrack giving way to dissonant wailing; the cast's ominous tone devolving to anguished, terrified screaming; is Idris Elba drifting in and out of a Southern accent? Stop that, Idris Elba. Matched with refreshingly dark photography and increasingly frenetic editing, this trailer makes for a super-intense, occasionally-Southern two-and-a-half-minute experience.
Trailer for 'Prometheus' Trailer Still Pretty Cool for Being Despicable
This business of releasing trailers for trailers is an awful thing. That is too many layers of preview! I can feel myself being trained, getting excited about hearing the can open before I'm even given a whiff of my wet food. I do not support this practice, you guys. That said, this 20-second trailer for the upcoming Prometheus trailer is sort of awesome.
This Image Has Something To Do with 'Prometheus'
The Prometheus viral campaign, which made an impressive debut when Guy Pearce gave a slightly overwrought TED talk of the future, has now revealed the above image to those registered at WeylandIndustries.com. Hunt for clues, note architectural similarities to stuff in Alien, scan for upskirts, etc.
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'Prometheus' Viral: Peter Weyland Gives a TED Talk, Greek Mythology Lesson
Those of you familiar with the Alien franchise will likely recognize the name "Weyland-Yutani." Set up in the first film through logo only and implicitly referred to as "the company," and later fleshed out some by Paul Reiser and co., Weyland-Yutani played the Alien series' stock role as greedy corporate entity that values profit and alien egg acquisition over human life. (Reiser is the 1%, occupy planetoid LV-426, etc.) In Ridley Scott's Alien sort-of-prequel, Prometheus, Guy Pearce plays Peter Weyland, head of a pre-Yutani-merger Weyland Corporation. So, as a viral stunt, here's Pearce giving an in-character TED talk from the future, telling the titular story of Prometheus and describing his ambitions to create synthetic life. Compared to the usual TED talk, it comes across as pretty ominous. Weyland probably should have kept it a bit lighter by not saying man had become God, and maybe by wearing some casual jeans.
[UPDATED] 'Prometheus' Trailer: 'Alien' Sort-of-Prequel Looks Quite a Bit Like an Actual 'Alien' Prequel
Back when Ridley Scott was tossing around the idea of Prometheus, long before it was going by such a demigodly title, the idea was for the film to be a prequel to Alien, finally explaining why there's that so-called "space jockey" character reclining in a weird chair in the first film. At some point, though, that seemed to change, and Scott and writer Damon Lindelof repeated insisted, no no, this is definitely not an Alien prequel--it's an original film with "strands of Alien DNA" connecting it to the Alien series like an Arby's employee's thin black hair creating a tenuous link between your beef & cheddar and curly fries.
Well, now that's a trailer for this thing is here, you can judge for yourself if this is an Alien movie or not. Sure, there are shots of suited, female-led space explorers examining a field of strange pods; and yeah, something seems to latch onto the face of one of these people; and there is a foreign, android crew member; and okay, I think that's a shot of the space jockey's chair thing at :39, sandwiched between shots of Charlize Theron doing a Leeloo impression; and man, isn't that even the same title treatment as Alien? BUT, this movie also has a giant horseshoe thing rolling around crushing shit. And, as was pointed out in the comments, that giant horseshoe thing is obviously just the derelict ship from Alien. But still, who are we to say there are definitely more than Alien strands in this?
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'Prometheus' Pre-Trailer Claims Trailer Is Coming Thursday
The official trailer for Prometheus won't be here until Thursday, but already a Ridley Scott-shaped globule has formed upon iTunes trailers--a warning to grab a sweat sock with which to catch the imminent explosion of alien goo before it gets all over your face, like it did with this dude.
In this preview promoting the upcoming sci-fi trailer, some shots from the Alien sort-of-prequel are intercut with Scott's explanation of just how and why his film is so "epic." Sounds like somebody is catching up on his internet lingo...
