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Ridley Scott's Prometheus Trailer

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This whole Prometheus/Alien thing is like Xenogears/Xenosaga all over again, just not as a video game. You can tell there are obvious connections because there are far too many to be just coincidence, but no one wants to officially admit it.
 
Eiolon said:
This whole Prometheus/Alien thing is like Xenogears/Xenosaga all over again, just not as a video game. You can tell there are obvious connections because there are far too many to be just coincidence, but no one wants to officially admit it.
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Are you suggesting that Sir Ridley Scott ripped off a couple of JRPGs or the other way around?
 
So the Weyland Industries site was updated. Ya think this might be an android fingerprint?

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Me and a friend were doing some theorycrafting about Prometheus the other night, I'm not sure we're onto something, but I think some of what we came up with sounds plausible.

There's an obvious stated metaphor regarding the Prometheus myth and the whole idea of stealing the "fire" of the gods, and suffering eternal punishment as a result. Throughout, we've been (mis)directed into thinking its the humans who are the guilty party, but lets take a step back for a moment.

In the teaser we are shown an alien temple which is depicted using a cleaned-up version of Giger's biomechanoid designs. This suggests to me the "pure" version of the "God's" technology/culture. Now an obvious way to integrate this would be to define the "fire" as being some kind of proto-matter that is used to reshape anything, for use in terraforming or whatever. An easy jumping-off point for this would be setup a scenario where this material is sued to contaminate a synthetic life-form (android) resulting in a corrupted biomechanoid entity (sans programming) that would evolve into the uber-predator we know from the Alien movies.

The obvious flaws with this are (1) its not a particularly cool monster, and (2) there's the whole aspect of the space jockey and his/their ship to deal with. This got me thinking...

First an aside: One of the problems with the "leaked" scenario was that it was far too schematic; it was a series of linked concepts/ideas without any real dramatic through-line for the audience to get on board with. From a writing standpoint there were many questions about how these concepts were going to be introduced to the audience in a way that's dramatic and interesting. Dry "history" (even when it involves alien gods) isn't very cinematic, what there needs to be is a way to express these ideas as events.

Here's our solution: The Space Jockey and his ship are what happens when you steal the "fire" and mix-together organic and mechanical technologies. The crew of the Prometheus mistakenly believe them to be servants of the gods, but they are just explorers with an agenda like themselves who made a terrible mistake. What they take from the derelict is impure, a corrupted version of the gods' proto-matter, and when they start experimenting with it... all hell breaks loose.

Possibly something on the derelict destroys the Prometheus, forcing the crew to use the tech in order to create a pilot for the ancient ship as a lifeboat/escape ship, and in so doing flies it out to LV426, where it crashes. However on their flight it carries with them the future seeds of destruction in the form of the familiar alien embryo, with the film ending with the transformed pilot setting the warning beacon before succumbing to the alien's birth.

Probably, all wrong... but its fun to speculate!
 
Wow, why I didn't see this trailer and thread earlier is beyond me. The visuals look great, and the atmosphere feels very good. I really hadn't expected this. Well done Ridley.
 
Eiolon said:
This whole Prometheus/Alien thing is like Xenogears/Xenosaga all over again, just not as a video game. You can tell there are obvious connections because there are far too many to be just coincidence, but no one wants to officially admit it.
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I think it's going to end up being a lot more like Halo.
 
Leckan said:
So when did Weyland industries become Weyland-Yutani and why?
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In the AVP Movie Franchise its sort of suggested that they came together as one had knowledge of the Aliens and the other knowledge of the Predators. Sure there's real lore out there somewhere that's far more accurate.
 
symphonask said:
Their 'About Us' section got unlocked from the drop-down menu on the top-left of the site.

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837 million employees... goddamn
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What year is the 50 year anniv supposed to be? in the TED video it was 2023 but Weyland looked fairly young so I assume a 50th anniversary is far later?
 
sc0la said:
What year is the 50 year anniv supposed to be? in the TED video it was 2023 but Weyland looked fairly young so I assume a 50th anniversary is far later?
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I'm not really sure. At first I assumed it was 50 years from that TEDTalk, so 2073. But it could also be 50 years since they've built the first off-world colonies, so that could be a couple decades after 2023.
 
symphonask said:
I'm not really sure. At first I assumed it was 50 years from that TEDTalk, so 2073. But it could also be 50 years since they've built the first off-world colonies, so that could be a couple decades after 2023.
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Thanks

I assume the latter since it appears he has established a reputation preceding the TED thing with his company. I was just trying to establish if the androids might be primitive in Prometheus, but the film looks like it will take place well after the time when they are indestinguishable from humans in "a few short years"
 
sc0la said:
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I assume the latter since it appears he has established a reputation preceding the TED thing with his company. I was just trying to establish if the androids might be primitive in Prometheus, but the film looks like it will take place well after the time when they are indestinguishable from humans in "a few short years"
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Hmm... you're right. All this time I assumed David was the first lifelike android. Guess we'll find out soon enough.

Here's some neat fanart and posters I found:

http://imgur.com/a/EmWfP#wlLrO
 
So the TED talk was about 50 years ago before the main setting of Prometheus? And guessing that Weyland looked in his late 30's/early 40's. Is it wrong to assume Guy Pearce will look like he's 80 in the actual film?

Or did I completely read what you guys were saying wrongly
 
Just watched Alien for the first time a couple days ago, and man that movie is amazing. I was totally hyped for Prometheus just from the trailer but now I just can't wait. If Ridely Scott manages to make Prometheus half as awesome as Alien were going to be in for a real treat.
 
Shalashaska161 said:
Just watched Alien for the first time a couple days ago, and man that movie is amazing. I was totally hyped for Prometheus just from the trailer but now I just can't wait. If Ridely Scott manages to make Prometheus half as awesome as Alien were going to be in for a real treat.
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Same here, just yesterday actually. Looking forward to watching Aliens now, since Alien sort of ends 'abrupt'. It was a good flick for its time I suppose, but I wouldn't call it amazing, standalone.

I'm hoping the ties between the sequel and other continuities are what make it amazing, more-so than a single standalone flick.

I really can't wait for Prometheus though, and the whole TED mock vid only hyped me up further.
 
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