Prometheus Casting News & Ridley Scott Comments

[deezelboy]

The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye has talked to Ridley Scott about Prometheus and the lengths taken to keep it a secret, and also revealed some possible casting news:

Ridley Scott told me he has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the script of his new epic science fiction film from leaking out.

His ensemble cast, which includes Oscar-winning Charlize Theron and hot actors Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba, Sean Harris and Kate Dickie, not only had to sign secrecy clauses, but were only allowed to read the story if they visited Ridley's production office. (One exception was made, when a security courier flew to an actor's foreign location and stood guard for two hours while the screenplay was perused.)

'I was insistent that the script not leak onto the internet, where it gets dissected out of context, which spoils it for everyone,' Ridley told me during cocktails at a pre-Oscar tribute to Harvey Weinstein, hosted by Dior at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard.

The film's called Prometheus and starts filming in three weeks. ...

'It's the story of creation, the gods and the man who stood against them. It's not a small film,' Ridley joked.

'I'm using the giant James Bond 007 stage at Pinewood and six other sound stages to film it,' he added.

Prometheus, Ridley declared, was not - as some have suggested - a  prequel to his classic sci-fi shocker Alien. But he refused to divulge more.

Indeed, one of his actors told me that he could recite the entire screenplay to me - but then he'd have to wrestle me to the ground and, this was related in the nicest possible way, 'kill me'.

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[deezelboy]

'It's the story of creation, the gods and the man who stood against them. It's not a small film,' Ridley joked.

Very odd use of words there, if Ridley did in fact say 'the man' rather than 'the men.' 

[wmmvrrvrrmm]

It sounds more like Clash of the Titans 2

[deezelboy]

That's what happens when you name the film after a Titan!

[wmmvrrvrrmm]

I wonder if the man who stands up against the gods in this story is supposed to be Prometheus, even if he was a titan


I suppose that might put the Space Jockeys back in the roles of gods, such as the gods of war that he used to talk about and now the engineers of space who probably did the terraforming many aeons ago.

[deezelboy]

That's what I'm thinking, with terraforming or bio-engineering taking the place of fire in the legend, and being stolen by the humans.  But we don't get eagles eating our livers for all eternity as a punishment, we get the Alien for our trespasses.

Although... why 'the man'?  Everything I've heard says that Rapace is in the starring role, but if the story's central character is a man...?

[wmmvrrvrrmm]

Although... why 'the man'?  Everything I've heard says that Rapace is in the starring role, but if the story's central character is a man...?

Well, we have Lindelof as a scriptwriter who seems to have written scripts featuring storylines taking place in more than one time period and timeline as we have seen in Lost and the Star Trek movie.

Maybe in "Prometheus" we have talk about something taking place in a time many aeons back that tales of gods and titans in Greek mythology makes references to and we have a modern future world where the likes of Noomi Rapace and her group of fellows exist digging up the past, finding out about the past and well encountering dangerous things coming through to the present

[dude]

Idris Elba?

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FUCK YES! WOOOOOOOOOO! WOOOOOOOO! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!

"mo' money, mo' problems"

[Industrial_Vibe]

Prometheus, Ridley declared, was not - as some have suggested - a  prequel to his classic sci-fi shocker Alien. But he refused to divulge more.

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And there it is...

[beckmen]

Uh, there what is? More cryptic statements?

[Nick_MX]

In a sado-machicistic (sp?) way I'm enjoying the teasing surrounding this movie - assuming that it is going to be an Alien movie. If no, well, Sir Ridley makes it on my Shit List.

 

[Hunter]

In a sado-machicistic (sp?) way I'm enjoying the teasing surrounding this movie - assuming that it is going to be an Alien movie. If no, well, Sir Ridley makes it on my Shit List.

 

Same. If this turns out to be a non-alien movie after two years of waiting and his declartion in the anthology, he can swallow a brick. I want an Alien redemption, I have no interest in "original sic-fi" when we've been led onto something more.