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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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Inside the Company Behind The “Prometheus” Mission

image courtesy Weyland Industries

  What’s more dangerous than the monstrous creatures of the Alien universe? How about the ruthless company that will stop at nothing to turn the xenomorphs into a profitable bio weapons? Now you can get an insider look into the notorious corporation from the Alien films.

  The TED corporate video starring Peter Weyland revealed the connection between Ridley Scott’s Alien and Prometheus. Now you can “Invest In Your Future” and see the investor section of Weyland Industries.

 

Michael Fassbender in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

Once inside scroll down to see the development of the company’s android. The 8th version of “David” is a crew member on Prometheus and will be played by Michael Fassbender. You can see a Weyland commercial for David 8 here.

New Prometheus Viral Image from Weyland Industries

  Prometheus and Weyland Corporation promotion is taking over the world in a chilling way. The TED viral video starring Guy Pearce as Peter Weyland revealed the link between Alien and Prometheus took over the web.

image courtesy Weyland Industries

 Now there’s a website for the evil corporation from the films and this beautiful but frightening image.

 On the page you can see this image and description under coming soon:

courtesy Weyland Industries

“OUR FAMILY IS GROWING

Weyland engineers have been working around the clock to bring you the newest, most advanced addition to the Weyland family. Stay tuned for a special announcement.”

This Geek’s Opinion: This will likely be the introduction of the artificial person that will be played by Michael Fassbender in Prometheus. Ian Holm played an android in Alien.

The picture above appears to be inside the ship of the “Space Jockey” from the first Alien film with an egg and a map showing multiple star systems. What do you think?

Ridley Scott is not just a brilliant director but expert marketer too.