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[Christian U]

I just hope he doesn't go back to making movies I have no interest seeing. At least his next movie (or an upcoming one) is a Cormac McCarthy script with Fassbender starring.

Ohhhhhhhhhh now that sounds good! Brad Pitt's involved, too, I see...


They can always get Paul Anderson to make another Alien/predator movie.

[Noel Luperon]

Believers and unbelievers alike,

There's a TUSHLOAD of production and makeup application pics in here: http://www.prometheu...discussion/2118

Couple of samples:

[Noel Luperon]

Same source as previous post, some pages further down on the same thread.

[Noel Luperon]

One more, one more, one more.

Collection of Prometheus VFX work, with a few clips: http://www.cgsociety...cial/prometheus



Lots of photos from the makeup team, specifically their work on the Engineers and Weyland: https://www.facebook...304949236210456

[steveuk]

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They can always get Paul Anderson to make another Alien/predator movie.

That's basically what 'Prometheus' is, but with Ridley Scott directing.

Another VFX link, this one is a big video breakdown of key scenes;

http://www.fxguide.c...sual-breakdown/

[Jacowboy (Jonathan)]

Just saw it on Imax 3D... Visually, it was veryyyy good... Story wise, it had its weaknesses... but then again, Ridley Scott's movies often get over-edited for theater release... so I'll wait for the Director's cut to make up my mind. But it was a good movie all told.

There are several things I'm still unsure of... particularly about the black goo thing, and how it worked, and what it did exactly...

So far my theory is, when they entered the tomb/chamber with the big head, temperature rised and the containers started melting. David took one and infected Bane with a little bit of it... but the rest started oozing in the ground, infecting the worms/maggots in there, which I'm assuming is what those penis-like tentacles, that attacked the two guys who got left in the storm, were (infected worms). Bane started mutating but got burnt. The other scientist got zombie-fied by the mutated maggot, and Rippley 2.0 got a mutated fetus, which turned out to be the mother of all face-huggers, which in turn created probably what was the first alien queen...

Does that sound right to you guys, or did I miss something?

So that means that in order to arrive to the Alien form form the first movie, the virus needed to merge with a man, then a woman/fetus, then an engineer right?

Then how the hell did the alien form get into whatever planet it was that Alien happened on? Maybe it crept into the engineer's ship when the chick and David took off? Maybe that's how the aliens got to reproduce like crazy? (because if they go to the engineers' home planet next, with an alien stoaway, that would certainly explain how there's a shitload of eggs in the first alien movie)

Uhmm do I need spoiler tags, or are we safe now?

Edited by Jacowboy (Jonathan), 17 June 2012 - 10:05 AM.

[craggy]

after the Engineer got facehugged, I fully expected him to get up, get to a ship, take off, then crash on LV426 with the Alien Queen popping out to lay all those eggs for the Nostromo's crew to find.

[steveuk]

after the Engineer got facehugged, I fully expected him to get up, get to a ship, take off, then crash on LV426 with the Alien Queen popping out to lay all those eggs for the Nostromo's crew to find.

It would save a lot of bother wouldn't it?

[craggy]

yeah it would have. then Shaw and Fasshead could have went off on their merry way to the sequels investigating the big ol questions about the big ol baldies and it wouldn't have ever had to have anything to do with the earlier films again.

edit: I wonder if David dreams about Unicorns?

[Johnny Henning]

So far my theory is, when they entered the tomb/chamber with the big head, temperature rised and the containers started melting. David took one and infected Bane with a little bit of it... but the rest started oozing in the ground, infecting the worms/maggots in there, which I'm assuming is what those penis-like tentacles, that attacked the two guys who got left in the storm, were (infected worms). Bane started mutating but got burnt. The other scientist got zombie-fied by the mutated maggot, and Rippley 2.0 got a mutated fetus, which turned out to be the mother of all face-huggers, which in turn created probably what was the first alien queen...

Actually, he's Logan Marshall-Green. Not Tom Hardy, though it is hard to tell:

[craggy]

oh! I wondered what the hell was going on with this talk of "Bane". I know there was a lot of forgettable stuff with people's names and actions, but I was sure that guy's name was...well...um...definitely not Bane, anyway.

[Noel Luperon]

In the Prometheus Forum I linked to above, they're calling the creature that burst out of the Engineer "The Deacon" (can't find why the name, though) and consider it a separate... species, if you will, from the Alien/Aliens Xenomorph.

And someone should find a movie for Marshall-Green and Hardy to work on together, on looks alone. Tarantino kept talking about doing a prequel with the Vega brothers (from Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs)... Hardy should be the trigger-happy one played by Madsen.

[Jacowboy (Jonathan)]

Ah damn... I thought it was tom hardy xD

Yeah sorry about the bogus names, it was rather late when I came back =P

[John Mosby]

Actually, he's Logan Marshall-Green. Not Tom Hardy, though it is hard to tell:

I went through the whole film thinking it was Hardy until I checked the credits. However, I've never seen them in the same place at the same time, sooooooooooooooooo....

[John Brook]

That guy does look hell of a lot like Tom Hardy. If they ever make another movie about brothers with Hardy, tthey can get Logan Marshall Green...

[Johnny Henning]

In the Prometheus Forum I linked to above, they're calling the creature that burst out of the Engineer "The Deacon" (can't find why the name, though) and consider it a separate... species, if you will, from the Alien/Aliens Xenomorph.

Probably because it looks like he's wearing a mitre, but you could call it Bishop or Pope for that matter.

[David Meadows]

Probably because it looks like he's wearing a mitre, but you could call it Bishop or Pope for that matter.

That's very weird. Presumably the people who gave him the name are Armenians, because that's the only church where deacons are allowed to wear the mitre.

[Noel Luperon]

Children of the Engineers,

One of the many pending questions from the movie has been answered-- what did David say to the Engineer?

The answer, according to the linguist who worked with Fassbender for the movie, is:

Spoiler

The line that David speaks to the Engineer (which is from a longer sequence that didn’t make the final edit) is as follows:
/ida hman&#601;m a&#618; kja nam&#7771;tuh zd&#603;:taha/…/gh&#695;&#618;vah-pjorn-&#618;ttham sas da:t&#7771; kredah/
A serviceable translation into English is:
‘This man is here because he does not want to die. He believes you can give him more life’.

Great to finally have an answer, and in many ways, it was the most straightforward assumption.


What I find even more interesting is this other bit:

Spoiler

We’re all going to have to wait for the Director’s cut to see if the conversation between the Engineer and David – and there was indeed originally a conversation, not merely an utterance from David – yields any fruit.- Dr. Anil Biltoo

EDIT: there's something about the formatting and the pasting here that is turning the phonetic original line to gibberish, can't seem to fix it (sorry), the original source of info is here: http://thebioscopist...o-the-engineer/

Edited by Noel Luperon, 22 June 2012 - 07:27 PM.

[steveuk]

[Robert B]

Yeah I saw that and I thought it was pretty good.

Something I found funny right off the bat was how they got to the moon and immediately found what they were looking for on it. It didn't bother me whatsoever because that happens in pretty much every cosmic movie, book, or comic book ever, but they seemed to draw undue attention to it in Prometheus. "Hey, a straight line!"