Figured a few people would like them, for examination or to use for whatever...

Here you go folks!

I gotta say - after seeing the Jockey rising up out of the floor and the Derelict crashing to the ground I am now excited about this project. Here's hoping that Mr. Scott delivers what this franchise so much deserves.
 

As promised Fox has released a second teaser for the world premiere trailer of Prometheus that itself will be released this coming Thursday. Here it is:


Enjoy!

Fox has announced via it's many social networking sites that an official trailer for Prometheus will be released this coming Thursday, December, 23rd via iTunes Trailers. Here's the trailer for the trailer:


I have to say, and I've said this before and been disappointed, but I'm getting really excited for this film! Nice touch having music from an Alien trailer in this video.

Icelandic film site Filmophilia's editor Erlingur Gretar recently interviewed Ridley Scott, who was quite forthcoming about Prometheus.

The full interview can be found here, but below are some choice Ridley excerpts:

On the Prometheus link to the Alien films, Ridley says it's not linked at all.  However, 'By the end of the third act you start to realize there's a DNA of the very first alien, but none of the subsequent aliens. To tell you what that is is a pity, and I'm not going to tell you, because it's actually pretty good, pretty organic to the process and to the original. But we go back, we don't go forward.'

On whether we see the Alien itself: 'No. Absolutely not. They squeezed it dry. He (the xenomorph) did very well. (He laughs) He survived, he's now in Disneyland in Orlando, and no way am I going back there. How did he end up in Disneyland? I saw him in Disneyland, Jesus Christ!'

On the Space Jockeys: 'I've only done two science-fictions, but I was always amazed that no one asked who the hell the Space Jockey was. He wasn’t even called the Space Jockey. During the film they started to call it the Space Jockey. I don't know who started that one off. I always thought it was amazing that no one ever asked who he was, and why was he there? What was all that about? I sat thinking about this for a while and thought, well, there's a story! And the other four [films] missed it! So, here it is.'

On Giger's involvement: 'I showed him what we were doing, showed him the story and he liked it a lot. So he's doing a little bit of work for me. He's been doing some murals, big murals, which we'll see in almost one of the first chambers we encounter when we land where we're gonna go.'

On Noomi Rapace: 'I saw Dragon Tattoo a year ago, the first one. And, "Wow, who is that?" and from that I said, "This is the girl that's going to do the film." She came to L.A. and I met with her, and discovered that she's in fact extraordinarily posh, as opposed to punk. So there was a real actress. A real actress, very, very good. So, I don't know, she will just do great. ...I would say that Noomi's even more volatile and passionate [than Sigourney Weaver]. And sure, she looks good. But the combination of that and intelligence is a great combination.'

On Charlize Theron: 'she hangs around 'till the end. (He laughs) '

There's also a fair amount of Ridley looking back at Alien, and a very odd conversation about intelligent design, Erich von Daniken and the like.

Full interview at: http://filmophilia.com/2011/12/17/interview-ridley-scott-talks-prometheus-giger-beginning-of-man-and-original-alien/

This is a little late in posting (almost 2.5 months), so I apologize if this isn't news to everyone.  I came across this on PSN last night, and thought I'd share this with the good folks here at AXP and the ALIENS community at large.  Especially since this particular video hasn't been shown here yet - to my knowledge. (...and no, I'm not leaving out you PREDATOR fans, but this is related to an ALIENS game - so just stick with me.)

Anyway, here is an 11 minute clip from E3 2011 - dating back to October.  Some of the footage is not new - it's been previewed elsewhere, but on a whole I rather enjoyed this, and it actually made me excited about the game.  ...I know.  I haven't exactly been chomping at the bit over this release, but after downloading it from PSN and seeing some of the game play at the size it would be on my TV, and not as a little YouTube video, it was pretty damned awesome.  ...Ironically that's what I've linked here: a little YouTube video.  But I encourage you to find this on PSN or XBox Live (I'm not positive it's available on XBox Live, but since the game is slated for release on that console I'd wager the video is available on that network too).

Some of Randy Pitchford's comments are little hammy, and he's obviously playing up the level of excitement to get people wrapped-up in the hype, but I found the video to be a relatively fun experience into what we can expect from the game.  Also keeping in mind that the gameplay that is demo'd is still from a work in progress is pretty cool.  Seeing this full-size on your TV really shows some of the nuances of texture, light, rigging, and particle dynamics - which, even at the WIP stage, are well handled.  And if this video footage is from a WIP then some of these will only get tighter by release date.

I'm not going to buy into this being a true sequel to the film until I play this.  As far as I'm concerned A3 is a great sequel, and if the continuity of the story line in film  is disrupted to make this game work as a sequel then this will exist only as a "what if" scenario only. ...besides, I have a hard time seeing video games as a true sequel to a film anyway.  But regardless of that - this looks like it may be more fun than I was giving it credit for.

So, with all of that said, check out the YouTube video.  As I said, I suggest you find this on PSN or XBox Live and see it full size.

There has been so much scrutinising of every image and screenshot of the dodgy leaked trailer of Prometheus, that the last thing on anyone's mind has been the other half of the franchise.

Sadly that appears to include 20th Century Fox as well.

When asked today about the possibility of a fourth solo Predator film Robert Rodriguez has this to say;

"I haven't talked to them in a while. I know they liked the idea of doing another one, I should probably call and check in. I've just been busy doing these other things."

Yes Rob, you do that.

While the film polarised the fan base (I personally liked it), it went on to become a critical and financial success, tripling it's budget at the worldwide box office, a sequel seemed to be a certainty. Then again, maybe that phone call is all we need.


Thanks to the Playlist

I wasn't going to bother posting this since I figured Fox would have it taken down within minutes of it going up, but a shaky-cam version of a Prometheus teaser trailer has been on YouTube for a couple of days now, so here it is:


Can't see much, so it'll be nice to see the real deal. Very Alienesque, however.

Speakeasy recently interviewed Ridley Scott, and here's what he had to say about Prometheus:

The central metaphor of "Prometheus" is about a "higher being" (Scott's words) who challenges the gods, and the gods don’t want to give him fire. "Fire is our first form of technology," Scott says, and so by taking fire, the higher being is punished "in perpetuity in a horrible fashion." Much like the story of the mythological god, Prometheus, who stole fire from Zeus and for his actions was bound to a rock with an eagle eternally devouring his liver. (Let's hope things turn out differently for our higher being...)

Scott is especially excited about the story of "Prometheus" -- you can hear the enthusiasm in his voice when he discusses the film.  The screenplay was written by Damon Lindelof and Jon Spaihts. "I think the reason why I haven't attempted science fiction in a number of years is because I haven't really come across a script that I really liked," Scott says. "This developed and came out extremely well."

The last eight minutes of the "Prometheus" story evolve into "a pretty good DNA of the 'Alien' one."

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Regarding the use of 3-D and CGI, Scott says he has "completely taken off into this cyberworld" and called working on "Prometheus" "the best time I've had in a number of years making a movie."

Although Scott embraced "all the tricks, the toys" of computer-generated imagery and 3-D, he says, "I'm a great believer in filming the real thing if you can and so I did a lot of building the real thing." He used the "007" stage (more commonly known as the "Bond" stage) at Pinewood Studios in the U.K., one of the biggest stages in Europe at about 59,000 square feet. He used other stages at Pinewood too.

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/11/07/ridley-scott-spills-the-secrets-of-prometheus/

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYL0Sk5E5MU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYL0Sk5E5MU</a>

Thanks to BBC.

I suppose this puts to rest anyone still confused about continuity with the Alien films. Otherwise same old, same old sworn to secrecy.