Prometheus set photos leaked

[BlackWatch]

Maybe. One that's been chestbursterd perhaps. Or it could be a dead alien. Hard to tell.

[Dan]

It does look like a xeno's legs/chest 

[BishopIII]

I've studied the above still, and compared it to the dead SJ from Alien. That is a dead SJ, without doubt.

[Thedus]

I've studied the above still, and compared it to the dead SJ from Alien. That is a dead SJ, without doubt.

Although if we go with the idea that had been created for ALIEN: the alien born of the Jockey was huge.  Giger had worked a fossilized alien in the the moon's surface near the Derelict - so I suppose it could be an alien. And the body does look rather like the design of the Giger's alien.

However, I'd wager that the thing the humans are looking at is a spent egg tipped on it's side.

[deezelboy]

Nah, I reckon it's the Jockey's skull.

[BishopIII]

Although if we go with the idea that had been created for ALIEN: the alien born of the Jockey was huge.  Giger had worked a fossilized alien in the the moon's surface near the Derelict - so I suppose it could be an alien. And the body does look rather like the design of the Giger's alien.

However, I'd wager that the thing the humans are looking at is a spent egg tipped on it's side.

Although, if you look at the detail on the abdominal region of the 'body', there are structures that are near identical to those on the Jockey corpse in Alien. Plus the pronounced ridge along the sternum resembles closely the breathing tube on a Jockey. If it is actually a suit, as Riddles has stated, then an alien born of one would not likely resemble said suit.

Nah, I reckon it's the Jockey's skull.

Or helmet? Actually I thought it was a spent egg on it's side also. That could imply that the corpse, or comatose being is actually the Jockey who took it in the mouth from a facehugger (or whatever facehugger precursor it may otherwise be). Given the lack of obvious chest damage, the supine body hasn't popped yet. 

[beckmen]

Giger had worked a fossilized alien in the the moon's surface near the Derelict

Does a picture of this exist? I think I remember reading about that beat in the novel/screenplay or something.

[wmmvrrvrrmm]

Does a picture of this exist? I think I remember reading about that beat in the novel/screenplay or something.

Well this is Giger's artwork and this is the body of a space jockey type entity

[Pandorag]

Dead SJ?

No helmet? Not the same atmosphere/planet maybe? Somewhere else entirely and no need for the big white space suit?

[Thedus]

Does a picture of this exist? I think I remember reading about that beat in the novel/screenplay or something.

Mal posted a pick a while back from the 1979 ALIEN trading cards that showed what was supposed to be the fossilized alien.  I'll see if I can find it.

[wmmvrrvrrmm]

Mal posted a pick a while back from the 1979 ALIEN trading cards that showed what was supposed to be the fossilized alien.  I'll see if I can find it.

oh that thing, well blame that on the backdrop painter for deviating from Giger's painting with his own embellishments. Okay, look for the huddled form at the top centre right. I suppose you could perceive the whole of Giger's landscape as being made up from fossilized aliens, but that backdrop painting looks to me as if it was inspired by the far left of Giger's landscape painting. And what everyone thinks are two astronauts standing in front of the pipe look to me like shredded material from the pipe hanging off the side, and this is actual scenery from the set , not a small model

[Hudson]

If you're saying that isn't a model, then it's the shittiest full scale set ever constructed.

[BishopIII]

That is the full-scale set, i remember the 'bleeding' gash in the pipe from a picture in Giger's Alien Film Design. Right, I have the book right here, it's page 21, bottom right image, ok so it isn't the exact piece, but it makes the point that it is a gash in a pipe, and not two astronauts. Also, I think that the column is just a rock. Seeing a clearer image shows that we've just been seeing what we want to see. There is no fossilised alien or space jockey. It's our imaginations, like that 'face on Mars' bullshit.

[wmmvrrvrrmm]

It's our imaginations, like that 'face on Mars' bullshit.

I think there's a certain someone who likes to play around with people's perceptions, but I do think that the backdrop painter did decide to translate something that look almost as if it were going to turn into a figure of some sort in Giger's paintings into an actual half visible skeletal form which wouldn't have worked well if it was directly for a camera shot

If you're saying that isn't a model, then it's the shittiest full scale set ever constructed.

Well, you can see that part of the backdrop in the distance in the planet landscape but it wasn't important enough to be that detailed. But the full scale set itself I suppose served it's purpose and wasn't supposed to be seen lit like this or from this angle

[Hudson]

Fair enough.