Prometheus 2 Will Contain An Entirely New Species Of Alien

While director Ridley Scott is currently hard at work putting together all of the pieces to make The Martian, his next sci-fi thriller starring Matt Damon, that doesn't mean that he isn't still thinking about the future of Prometheus.
The project doesn't have a release date yet, but it has been making its
way through development, and now the filmmaker has revealed an
interesting new piece of info about what he has planned: there will be a
new kind of alien.


Scott spoke about Prometheus 2 a bit recently while doing an interview with The Australian (via Bloody Disgusting), and in addition to saying that he wants to move away from "gods
and dragons and shit," he also added that fans can expect a new kind of
extraterrestrial life to pop up in the future film. Speaking to his
desire to create something real and scary for the upcoming sequel, Scott
told the newspaper,

"The alien’s real which is why it’s probably one of the scariest monsters in film history. So with Prometheus 2 what I’m trying to do is reintroduce a fresher form of alien in the third act."

So what does that mean for the early Xenomorph that popped out at the end of Prometheus?

Asked about this creature by the newspaper, Ridley Scott admitted that
it was fairly close to the same creature that was featured in the
original Alien back in 1979 - but added that audiences can expect something different out of Prometheus 2.


It's not hard to appreciate that Ridley Scott wants to go in new directions with creature and alien design in Prometheus 2,
and I look forward to seeing what kind of horrific creature the
director and his team can come up with, but is anyone else at least kind
of upset that we may not see further development of the Xenomorph? One
can argue that the best parts of Prometheus were the ones that enhanced the Alien
universe and made it bigger - and actively moving the sequel away from
that kind of stuff isn't exactly what some fans want to hear. Hopefully
the movie can reach some kind of middle ground that will appeal to both
sides.


With The Martian
locked in with a November 25, 2015 release date, it's entirely possible
that Ridley Scott won't be able to sit down and really focus on Prometheus 2
until 2016- meaning that the film is likely about three years away. The
good news is that's a lot of time to try and figure out exactly the
best way to handle Alien and non-Alien elements in the movie. Hopefully that time is used well.

‘Prometheus 2′ Script Update; Ridley Scott Says No More Xenomorphs

Ridley Scott, at this point in time, is far along into pre-production on the Matt Damon-headlined Mars survival adventure The Martian (preparing for release in fall 2015), and has screenplays for both Blade Runner 2 and Prometheus 2 being cooked up. Scott most recently said he expects to begin shooting the Blade Runner sequel after he finishes The Martian, but that doesn’t mean the Prometheus followup has stopped moving forward.


On the contrary, Scott informed Yahoo! Movies UK that a Prometheus
sequel is something that he’s very much looking forward to making – and
thus, he is keeping the screenplay writing process chugging along at a
steady pace.

“Right now, as we speak, it’s being written. I’ve had 15
drafts evolving. I definitely want to do that ['Prometheus 2'] again
because I really enjoyed doing ‘Prometheus’.

It’s not clear if Michael Green, who reportedly handled revisions on an earlier Prometheus 2 script draft by Jake Paglen (Transcendence), is also the screenwriter responsible for the many revisions that Scott mentioned (Green is a bit busy at the moment, working on projects such as the upcoming Starz TV series American Gods).

Ridley Scott at work on the ‘Prometheus’ set


The most heavily criticized aspect of the first Prometheus is almost certainly that of the final shooting script draft penned by Damon Lindelof. Given Paglen’s shaky debut with Transcendence, it is encouraging to hear that the Prometheus 2
screenplay will, if nothing else, have had a good deal of work put into
it – perhaps enough for it to mark an improvement on the script for its
predecessor – by the time filming actually gets underway… whenever that
might be.


Indeed, part of the problem with Prometheus, arguably, was that it started out as a straight-forward Alien prequel (written by Doctor Strange scribe Jon Spaihts), before it evolved into more of the speculative – and divisive (see his most recent TV show, The Leftovers)
– philosophical work that Lindelof is known for crafting. The end
result, as mentioned before, was a sci-fi/horror movie that didn’t fully
satisfy as either of those things, for many filmgoers.

The ‘Deacon’ from ‘Prometheus’


It sounds as though Prometheus 2 will have a clearer vision
of what it is, by comparison – and among other things, that means no
more Xenomorphs (and/or proto-Xenomorphs?) in the Prometheus sequel, according to Scott.

“The beast is done. Cooked. I got lucky meeting [the late
H.R. Giger] all those years ago. It’s very hard to repeat that. I just
happen to be the one who forced it through because they said it’s
obscene. They didn’t want to do it and I said, ‘I want to do it, it’s
fantastic’. But after four ['Alien' movies] (he has conveniently
forgotten the ‘AvP’ movies), I think it wears out a little bit. There’s
only so much snarling you can do. I think you’ve got to come back with
something more interesting. And I think we’ve found the next step. I
thought the Engineers were quite a good start.”

That’s just as well; Prometheus set the stage for a sequel that stands well apart from past Alien
movies, despite it being set in the same universe. Not to mention, the
followup – with Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender back as the
human Elizabeth Shaw and android David – will presumably take place on a
planet populated by Engineers and other dangerous life forms (re:
Scott’s “good start” comment). There ought to be plenty of other monsters on the menu, by the sound of it.

Neill Blomkamp's Secret Alien Movie Looks So Good We're Furious

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Guess what? Neill Blomkamp was working on a secret
Alien project that included Sigourney Weaver reuniting with Corporal Hicks, and the concept art is gorgeous.
But now it's dead, or was never going to be made in the first place,
and I'm just going to scream "PROMETHEUS" into a pillow all day until I
pass out from lack of air.

Last night,
District 9 and Elysium director Blomkamp fired off a round of concept art on his Instagram
account. The first image was of a pissed off Xenomorph Queen and had
this caption: "Was working on this. Don't think I am anymore. Love it
though. #alien #xenomorph." Then he continued to upload a whole lotta
beautiful Alien-inspired work onto his account, commenting,
"Woulda rocked. Was a mental stroll into the world Ridley Scott
created." The idea looks like it took place inside Weyland-Yutani
headquarters, which was currently housing the derelict spaceship, and
somehow a mangled Hicks reappears (which is a great idea). Ripley can
also be seen donning the Space Jockey helmet, and (of course) there's a
screaming Queen Xenomorph. It looks great.

The art seems more like Blomkamp's personal pitch for an
Alien film, and not something a studio pulled from him.
Blomkamp even told one Instagram commenter, "Fox never said no." What
could that mean? Did Blomkamp ever actually pitch this to Fox?

An unverified Blomkamp Twitter account fleshed out the backstory a little stating that "they [presumably Fox] didn't really even know I was working on it ha"

So perhaps this was just a fun thing that Blomkamp had been tinkering
with for awhile. Honestly, this could all just be really fantastic fan
art. That being said, I can completely imagine Fox ignoring this pitch
in favor of fanning Ridley Scott's current detour for the Alien franchise into Prometheus world. Because, well, they kind of made that bed and now they have to lay in it.

But how wondrous would it be if a movie that was actually embedded into
actual world of this franchise was made? Please make this movie! It's
what the people want!

The Derelict Ship has somehow been transported into a gigantic warehouse (presumably inside Weyland Corp).

OH HAI HICKS *falls over on the ground and dies* Actual caption on the image is just "#ripley #hicks"

Inside "Weyland Corp"

Oh shit. Yeah that's Ripley wearing the Space Jockey Pilot mask.

Cut off caption says "Alien Xeno," and "Weyland Yutani headquarters."

"And finally, my home desk #xenomorph"

Life isn't fair.

Prometheus review: Depth is an alien concept for Ridley Scott

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Like so many now classic horror films, Alien (1979) was critically under-rated and even vilified on its release, as was Sir Ridley Scott’s other venture into sci-fi, Blade Runner (1982).

Perhaps that’s why he has taken his time to go back to the future.

It’s not giving too much away to say that Prometheus is a prequel to Alien, though another film will be needed to bridge the time gap between the two.

 

Space odyssey: Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender as explorers who find themselves in a fight to protect the human race

Scott even recycles elements from his 1979 movie: a blue-collar crew on a spaceship (called Prometheus), an aloof android (Michael Fassbender taking over the Ian Holm role to droll effect) and not one but two strong female characters — Noomi Rapace (the original Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) as the tough-guy heroine and Charlize Theron as the corporate boss who matronises the mostly masculine astronauts.

There’s more philosophising than in Alien, for the crew’s mission is nothing less than to discover the origin of mankind, why we were created and by whom. To accomplish this, they visit a distant planet where all kinds of unpleasantness awaits them.

 

 

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The film is on a much grander scale than its predecessor. There are sufficient epic vistas to have satisfied David Lean, whose Lawrence Of Arabia is quoted from throughout (not a great idea, as there’s no doubt which is the better film), and enough space gadgetry to satisfy the most obsessive Top Gear presenter.

Less impressive is the film’s split personality. It starts out as a thoughtful take on Darwinian versus Creationist theory and as an investigation of faith, but it turns into a fairly conventional monster movie, with icky special effects catering for the grisliest of fanboy tastes.

 

Blockbuster: Prometheus cost a reported £85 million to make, but it is set to overtake box office records previously set by hits such as Avatar and Batman The Dark Knight

The sequence about a self-inflicted Caesarean is even more gruesome than Alien’s famous exploding stomach scene involving John Hurt. Do not watch if you are expecting a baby.

As a piece of speculative fiction, Prometheus falls well short of greatness, but it shows abundant visual panache and, as a horror flick, delivers plenty of nasty shocks. Technically, the film is a triumph.

Disappointingly, it leaves its deeper questions unanswered, which comes across as a cop-out. Though solemn and portentous, Scott doesn’t get any closer to the meaning of the universe than Douglas Adams did in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.

Much of the movie takes place inside an enormous, hollow, alien structure, and that is all too apposite a metaphor for the whole movie. There’s little sense of human contact between the crew, and we are not encouraged to feel much as they are exploded and eviscerated. 

With the exception of Noomi Rapace’s leading character, the others are as sketchy and undeveloped as in the most sub-standard slasher flick, so the experience is emotionally underwhelming.

Prometheus isn’t a classic, unlike Alien and Blade Runner, but there are enough quality ingredients to make me hope Scott gets the money to make the sequel.via dailymail.co.uk

 

Prometheus - Preview

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Anticipation for Prometheus, Ridley Scott's sort-of-prequel to Alien, is almost on the neurotic end of breathless by now. Some aspects of it are closely-guarded secrets, and plenty of the core audience live in terror of hearing a single thing about it before paying on opening night. Some things we know, though: it's going to be more or less a new story, only the very end of which will connect us up with the science fiction mythos Scott originally established in 1979. The question Scott began this film wanting to answer, which Alien's sequels hadn't explored, is best put in his own words: "Who's the big guy in the chair?".

On stage with his top-lining cast members Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron, Scott took questions this morning at a private preview, after a selection of scenes - what you might call an exposition reel - setting up the movie's premise. Those who've banned themselves from even watching the trailer should stop reading right this instant, but nothing was spoiled which the movie won't lay out for us in what I'm assuming is its first half-hour.

We start, from the look of things, with a discovery on the Isle of Skye, in the company of Rapace's archaeologist, Dr Elizabeth Shaw, and a colleague played by Logan Marshall-Green. It's a 35,000-year-old cave painting depicting a faraway solar system, including one habitable planet with a moon. Fast-forward to 2093, and these two awake from hypersleep on a 17-man exploratory space vessel, their mission to probe the secrets of LV-223 -- which buffs will note is not LV-426, the dread-filled planet from Alien and Aliens.

Rapace, Scott confirmed, is the closest thing to a Ripley figure here; Charlize Theron's Meredith Vickers is an employee of the traditionally nefarious Weyland Corporation, charged by her late boss Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce, briefing us in holographic and aged-up form) with ensuring that the search for signs of life goes to plan. Meanwhile, a blond-dyed Michael Fassbender is David, the ship's creepily effete android butler, who calls Theron "Ma'am" and has been quietly watering plants for two and a half years while the rest of his crew-mates switch off.

"It's categorically not a secret what he is," says Scott about David, explaining that the role is a nod of sorts to Ian Holm's Ash, but that holding onto his identity as any kind of mystery would have been too clichéd. Fassbender, in shaping the character, relied less on memories of Holm, Lance Henriksen and Winona Ryder (!) in the earlier films than recent viewings of Scott's Blade Runner, Dirk Bogarde in The Servant, Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia and Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth. Apparently there's even a bit of the Olympic diver Greg Louganis in there -- something about his weirdly efficient walk. He looks fantastic in it, and so, in a more vulnerable and human way, does Rapace.

Theron's character, who gets straight out of the hypersleep chamber and does push-ups while her colleagues are spewing into buckets, looks to be a coldly enigmatic functionary, but she wanted to find ways to make Vickers brittle and afraid, inspired in part by Tilda Swinton's Oscar-winning performance as a panicked lawyer in Michael Clayton. Idris Elba's the pilot, and the supporting cast is a roll call of British character actors, from Sean Harris (24 Hour Party People) to Benedict Wong (Sunshine) to Kate Dickie (Red Road) and Rafe Spall (Anonymous). No sign yet of Patrick Wilson, who I've read somewhere is playing Rapace's father.

For Scott the starting-point - how the big bone creature from Alien came to be there - became less and less important as the new movie took over, or, as he says, "adjusted itself into much larger questions". The origin story ended up "barely in its DNA" - the last seven minutes provide the link. He worked on it design-first, persuading Fox to spend some money blueprinting the entire visual scheme of the film before a script was green-lit. It's his first feature in 3D, but he bats away the idea that this posed any particular headaches. "It's not brain surgery. It's actually pretty straightforward."

Exposition over, we were treated to that tantalising trailer montage of everything going gloopy and haywire – unfamiliar egg chambers, things entering people's eyes, screams of "What IS that?" and "Take us HOME!". This is what aficionados of cinema's greatest science fiction series, and the Star Wars faithful who are now furious with me, will be waiting for. If Scott and his cast can deliver on their movie's huge promise - only heightened by the careful, intelligently-played establishing scenes just unveiled - they'll be responsible for the blockbuster event of the year.

Prometheus Movie Trailers International & Teasers

Imax Trailer

Official Full Trailer

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‘Prometheus’ Trailer Released (Video)

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