New trailers have been released for Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus, and are pretty awesome to say the least. While the new international trailer does an impressive job showing off the film’s intense action, it’s the trailer for the U.K that really sets the scene.
When initial reports of the film’s story began to circulate, rumors had the premise starting with an archaeological dig that begins the quest to journey into space. The U.K trailer confirms this and sets up the story to great effect, making the build up to the sci-fi element all the more fulfilling.
At WonderCon 2012 this past weekend, screenwriter Damon Lindelof along with director Ridley Scott and stars Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron made an appearance.
The former Lost mastermind understands narrative implicitly, and much to the benefit of this movie, knows the pro’s and con’s of working within the same universe as the original Alien, but without recycling ideas. At the panel he gave this explanation as to how he approached the new story, what the possibilities are of continuing the premise if a sequel is green-lit, and whether another film would move closer to the Alien franchise, or have it’s own storyline:
I think that’s actually a really insightful question. This word “prequel” was on the table. It was the elephant in the room and had to be discussed. When I had first heard that Ridley was going to direct an Alien prequel, and then six months later my phone rang and the voice on the other end said, “Are you available to talk to Ridley Scott?,” and then I crashed into a telephone pole, I answered the call and Ridley was like, “Hey, man, I’m going to send you a script tonight.” And, he doesn’t know he’s Ridley Scott. So, I read this thing and we had a meeting, and he was already very clearly saying, “I want to come back to this genre. I want to do sci-fi again. I feel like this movie is just a little bit too close to Alien. I’ve done this stuff before. But, there are big ideas in it that are unique, in and of themselves. Is there a way to do that?” I said, “I think that that’s what we have to do.” If there were a sequel to this movie, it would not be Alien. Normally, that’s the definition of a prequel. It precedes the other movies. The Star Wars prequels are going to end with Darth Vader going, “Noooo!,” unfortunately. There’s an inevitability, in watching a prequel, where you’re like, “Okay, if the ending of this movie is just going to be the room that John Hurt walks into, that’s full of eggs, there’s nothing interesting in that because we know where it’s going to end. With really good stories, you don’t know where it’s going to end. So, this movie, hopefully, will contextualize the originalAlien, so that when you watch it again, maybe you know a little bit more. But, you don’t fuck around with that movie. It has to stand on its own. It’s a classic. If we’re fortunate enough to do a sequel to Prometheus, it will tangentialize even further away from the original Alien. When you go to the concert that is this movie, you want the Stones to play “Satisfaction.” There is this sense of us saying, “We want you to do something new, Ridley, but just give us a little bit of space jockey. Just play it! Even in the encore.” And, I think Ridley has given us the movie that I think we all want to see.
The Alien ‘prequel’ stars Noomi Rapace, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron, and Michael Fassbender.
Check out the UK trailer via Bleeding Cool, and the new International Trailer via AMC Theaters here:
Prometheus opens on June 8, 2012.
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