Tag: Ridley Scott

New Prometheus Featurette Video “A Superior Species, No Doubt”

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 A new Prometheus featurette is burning up the geek net! The cast is praising Sir Ridley Scott and we hear from the acclaimed director himself on his return to science fiction. The look in Michael Fassbender’s eyes as David the android is fascinating and chilling as he appears to sit the pilot seat of the “Space Jockey” and discovers the starmap. We’ve seen the scene in the trailer before but in this featurette we see Noomi Rapace in the white bikini looking outfit before what looks like a nasty fate with an alien of some kind.

I particularly enjoyed David’s quote “a superior species, no doubt.”

Thanks to Screen Rant.

Ridley Scott on Prometheus Cut and Rating

 

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  No rating yet but Director Ridley Scott says he shot Prometheus with an R rating in mind. At a Paris press conference the director says the film that ends up in theaters will be his cut.

“The cut that you’re gonna see in cinemas…it’s always the director’s cut, really… In this instance, you got a pretty good version here, pretty good cut. We’re running at about — I think without the end titles, which normally run about four to five minutes — we’re running one hour, fifty-nine minutes and change. It’s very tight, it’s what it should be” he told the media.

Thanks to Dark Horizons for the story.

Michael Fassbender’s Android Inspiration for “Prometheus”

Michael Fassbender in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

  Michael Fassbender plays an android named David in Ridley Scott’s (it has Alien DNA) Prometheus. Viral marketing (under the guise of a commercial from Weyland Industries) revealed David is a product of Weyland, the company that connects Alien and Prometheus.

  Pocket-lint makes a great point: You might assume that Fassbender based his performance on Ash (played by Ian Holm) in Alien or Bishop (Lance Henricksen) in Aliens. But the actor says he looked to another Ridley Scott directed sci-fi classic and…Olympic medalist Greg Louganis?

“I watched Blade Runner,” said Fassbender during a Q&A in London that Pocket-lint attended. “I watched The Servant with Dirk Bogarde. Laurence of Arabia. The Man Who Fell to Earth. And Greg Louganis.

“It’s the way he moved. When I was younger, his weird walk made me laugh.”

“It’s very centred,” he continued. “There’s an economy of movement. I thought that would work out.”

Thanks to Pocket-Lint.com for the story. I just discovered this site – very cool, great layout!

This story makes me picture Fassbender uttering that famous line, “If you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes.”

“Equivalent of Chest Bursting Scene” in Prometheus

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  Director Ridley Scott astonished critics in London with a preview of Prometheus and a tease that will be sending fanboys like me geeking out.

  Scott teases that Prometheus does have indeed have “the equivalent of Alien‘s famous chest-bursting scene,” according to the NY Daily News.

 For the entire story here’s the NY Daily News link.

Company Man TED Viral Video in “Prometheus”

Prometheus still of Noomi Rapace courtesy 20th Century Fox

  The chilling TED viral video starring Guy Pearce as Peter Weyland burned up the internet revealing the connection between Alien and Prometheus. The video was not just brilliant viral marketing, you’ll see it on the big screen.

  “You’ve seen everything you’re going to see out of [the TED Talk], but there were some sections of the speech that were trimmed out, just for economics,” Pearce told MTV News about shooting the viral video. “But there are other viral videos that are going to come out that involve the other characters from the film, with Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender. Mine was just the entrée to bigger and better things.”

  Pearce talked about feeling the pressure while playing the character that connects the films.

  “To a certain extent I’m feeling it more and more now! Every time I do an interview, and someone goes, ‘Sooo… Peter Weyland!’ And I go, ‘Oh god!'” he laughed. “Yeah, there’s a bit of pressure. But look, you’re standing there in front of Ridley, and you’re offering up whatever you can offer up. If it’s not right, Ridley would say. So I just have to trust Mr. Scott there.”

 For the entire interview here’s the MTV News link.

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Michael Fassbender: The Theme of “Prometheus”

Michael Fassbender in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

  The countdown to Prometheus is escalating. Michael Fassbender tells The Sci Fi Show in a new interview how the cast including Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba and Charlize Theron became part of Ridley Scott’s return to science fiction.

 “There’s always politics within, and that’s why, I think, this cast got together. The tempo, the pace, the intelligence of the script; each person has got their own agenda on that ship and it’s each a very individual agenda. Some people are there for the pay. Other people are there to get answers. Other people are there to hopefully attain some sort of secret. Others are there in somewhat of a spite journey. You’ve got all these collective relationships, individuals and motivations and that’s what makes quite intriguing even before the shit hits the fan.”

  I wanted to share this quote from Fassbender on the theme of the epic.

  “It’s basically about trying to find out if there was intervention in the birth of civilisation on planet Earth by other beings, which we come to know as Engineers, and whether they had a master plan in mind for us.”

  Thanks to Dark Horizons.

New “Prometheus” Starmap Photos

  The starmap is just one the many geek freakout inducing images coming from Prometheus, the Ridley Scott directed return to the Alien universe. Now an awesome collection of images from the film can be found on a facebook app with an interactive starmap. Thanks to Dark Horizons for capturing.

Charlize Theron in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

  Charlize Theron plays a Weyland corporate officer named Meredith Vickers.

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The Prometheus crew explore the alien vessel from Alien?

Idris Elba in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

                                  Idris Elba as the Captain (?) of Prometheus

Michael Fassbender in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

                 Michael Fassbenderder as the android David of Prometheus.

Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

                                 The Prometheus landing on the alien planet

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                    Michael Fassbender explores the alien ship in Prometheus.

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“Prometheus” Ridley Scott on the Space Jockey

Prometheus cover of Empire Magazine May 2012

  Prometheus marks Ridley Scott’s return to the Alien universe. In an upcoming issue of Empire the director reveals his passion to return to explore the back story especially the Space Jockey – an obsession of mine too.

“[I’ve wanted to revisit it for] years! Years, years, years,” he stresses of Alien‘s space traveller subplot. “I always wondered when they did [Aliens] 2,3 and 4 why they hadn’t touched upon that, instead of evolving into some other fantastic story. They missed the biggest question of them all: who’s the big guy? And where were they going? And with what? Why that cargo? There’s all kinds of questions.”

Prometheus is out June 1st. The Empire issue is out March 29th.