First, watch the trailer to 1979's 'ALIEN':
Here's the 'PROMETHEUS' teaser:
And then the First Trailer itself:
And then feel free to masturbate to these screenshots, via iO9.com:
Space Jockey Head! Holy Shit!
Space Jockey Chair! Holy Shit!
"Derelict Ship"! Holy Shit!
Oh man, fingers crossed triple-time on this one!Bring it, Ridley Scott! Do it right!
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Damn you Jimsmash! I need a clean pair of boxers now! I have been watching that trailer about every fifteen minutes because for the first time in years I am hazard about a movie that takes me back to my youth!
Ps. cerulean is nearly finished. I will send you a copy of it along with the first issue of Crimson Rosetta the graphic novel.
spoilers! they show waaaaay too much! it looks terrific, but I wish they didn't show so much.
Did you note the strange bald man on the far right of the "Space Jockey Chair" shot? It seems that Ridley Scott's comment on the original Space Jockey in ALIEN being a suit is, regrettably, accurate. If you look at the top of the chair where the head rest is, you can barely make out what looks to be a kind of encasing. I think that once this guy sits in the chair, that encasing will cover his head and he will than resemble the Space Jockey we know. That Space Jockey head on the medical table will probably be identified as a helmet later on as well.
I really want the last shot to be the crew dead, the derelict ship crashed, all goes silent on LV-426. Then cut ahead 100 years or whatever, and the Nostromo lands. Credits roll.
The end will have an Xeno emerging, screeching.
Mark my words the day this comes out.
Will this film be better than Alien 2 ? :)
I posted this on my site when the PROMETHEUS teaser came out...
"It’s the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet?" - Ridley Scott
Weyland-Yutani company logo in is there!
Space Jockey is in there!
The film actually revolves around the Space Jockey, Alien Gods. The Director's cut of Alien features Scott's commentary and his reference to the Space Jockey’s ship as a "bomber", he describes how "Alien eggs could be dropped on an enemy planet, and the aliens would proceed to kill the population as they spawned."
1) Drop eggs onto enemy territory
2) Enemy impregnated, at least one alien warrior released
3) Alien warrior creates Queen egg
4) Queen hatches: full infestation sets in
5) Profit!
According to James Cameron, the Space Jockey’s craft picked up alien eggs and the pilot became infected by the dangerous cargo; the ship landed on LV-426 became compromised and the Space Jockey transmitted the signal as a warning. Alan Dean Foster’s novelization of Alien also state the Space Jockey encountered the aliens on LV-426. In Foster’s Alien novelization, Ash describes the Space Jockey’s race as:
"A noble people and hopes that mankind will encounter them under more pleasant circumstances".
In an early version of the script for ALIEN: Three of the crew members go exploring through the barren, windswept and dusty landscape. Using a portable scanning device they follow the signal and come across a derelict space craft of non-human manufacture.
They enter and and explore the craft They come across a strange "Urn" type object open at one end with strange markings on the side. They eventually come across the fossilized remains the the ships pilot and discover that in it’s last moments have scribed a triangle on a near by panel.
They take the creatures fossilized skull and head back to the Snark [Nostromo]. The three explorers are back aboard the Snark sharing with the rest of the crew what they had found. with a device called a data stick. Eventually the wind outside clears, on the horizon a Pyramid can be seen, the Space Jockey's drawing of a triangle begins to make sense so the three explorers head off on a second expedition to investigate a pyramid. It appears the Space Jockey was an Archeologist.
The crew arrive at the base of the pyramid and discover there is no visible entrance so one of them decides to scale the side of the structure to see if there is an opening at the top. At the top he finds an opening but cannot see to the bottom.
"The pyramid and the derelict ship were still the subject of a see-saw debate when I came on the project. I would love to have shot it, but the more I thought about it the more I realized it would have been wonderful in a three-hour version. What finally cracked it it was the budget. We just had to get rid of it." Ridley Scott.
Assembling a tripod device over the opening the crewman begins to descend into the unknown depths of the pyramid. When he eventually reaches bottom he’s inside what appears to be a tomb like structure with strange and unusual Hieroglyphics from floor to ceiling. Exploring the tomb further he comes across a group of "urns" similar to the one found on the derelict space craft only these ones are sealed. (Much like we see in the PROMETHEUS trailer!).
On the involvement of the Space Jockey?
Ridley Scott: "... I always figured it’s a weapon, and I always figured that [the ship in the first Alien] was a carrier of weapons. Therefore, who is that, inside that suit? That wasn’t a skeleton, that was a suit. And if you open up the suit, what do you get inside it? And why were they going, where were they going?"
In Greek mythology, Prometheus (Greek Προμηθεύς, "forethought") is a Titan, the son of Iapetus and Themis, and brother to Atlas, Epimetheus and Menoetius. He was a champion of mankind, known for his wily intelligence, who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals. Zeus then punished him for his crime by having him bound to a rock while a great eagle ate his liver every day only to have it grow back to be eaten again the next day. His myth has been treated by a number of ancient sources, in which Prometheus is credited with – or blamed for – playing a pivotal role in the early history of mankind. "Zeus then punished him for his crime by having him bound to a rock"
The two most prominent aspects of the Prometheus myth – the creation of man from clay and the theft of fire – have parallels within the beliefs of many cultures throughout the world!
The whole plot of PROMETHEUS is online but don't read it if you don't want anything spoiled!
My most anticipated film of the year!!!!
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