The expectation for Ridley Scott’s long awaited return to sci-fi with his new film Prometheus, continues to gather momentum. Now a new clip has been released that serves as a nice appetizer to the film, without the narrative exposition of a full blown trailer. While the scene feels trimmed, there’s plenty of ambiance and stunning imagery abound. The film will be R-rated so […]
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New Three-Minute Trailer For PROMETHEUS
A new mind blowing three-minute trailer for Prometheus which plays like a mini movie has gone online to ramp up interest in what marks director Ridley Scott‘s return to the genre ‘he helped define’. Charlize Theron’s character, Meredith Vickers sets the stage for the mission the crew will go on and we see more of how Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green‘s characters are […]
New Trailers for Ridley Scott’s PROMETHEUS
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 […]
Ridley Scott’s PROMETHEUS First Trailer
The long awaited trailer for Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus has been released by 20th Century Fox. Speculation and mystery has surrounded this sci-fi project with ties to the Alien series for the better part of two years, now it’s all in plain sight – and what an impressive trailer, albeit teaser it is. From the striking production design to the hauntingly surreal look, Ridley Scott […]
Ridley Scott Talks PROMETHEUS Don’t Expect The Xenomorph
With more than half a year before Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus opens, fans continue to have mixed expectations as to how the film ties in to the movie that began a franchise. What started out as a desire by the filmmaker to create a set of prequel flicks soon evolved into some thing more unique when Damon Lindelof […]
PROMETHEUS Revealed
Interest in Ridley Scott‘s new sci-fi flick Prometheus is starting to reach fever pitch as fans and the film community alike eagerly await the first trailer. Damon Lindelof retooled the original script which began as an Alien prequel, and by channeling the filmmaker’s vision – offered a concept which reportedly leads into the 1979 original. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal’s […]
PROMETHEUS – Somewhere In The ALIEN Universe
Lost mastermind Damon Lindelof was recently on Kevin Pollak’s web-based chat series that covers topics relating to the creative pursuits of film and TV, including acting, directing and writing. Over the weekend, Lindelof was his guest and gave some incredible insights into the genesis that was Lost, as well as working on Ridley Scott‘s next sci-fi flick, Prometheus. What started out as a prequel story written by […]
Logan Marshall-Green Joins PROMETHEUS
Logan Marshall-Green has landed a major role in Ridley Scott‘s upcoming science fiction film Prometheus. The actor who was recently seen in the horror flick Devil, and TV’s Dark Blue playing undercover cop Dean Bendis for two seasons, has scored the part of a lifetime. Marshall-Green will be playing the role of Holloway, a crewman […]
Michael Fassbender to Play an ‘Artificial Person’ In Prometheus
Michael Fassbender is set to join the ranks of actors who have played androids in the Alien universe. Ian Holm was memorable as the deceitful ‘Ash’ in the original ‘Alien’ and in James Cameron‘s smash follow-up Lance Henriksen played the courageous ‘Bishop’, who preferred the term ‘artificial person’. Fassbender joins Noomi Rapace in Ridley Scott’s […]
Alien Prequel Evolves Into ‘Prometheus’
The return to the world of Alien was big news when Ridley Scott announced he would be helming new prequel stories, however towards the end of 2010 plans to make two films back to back slowly dwindled. Ridley had hinted that the new story would take place 30 years prior to the events of the first […]
Charlize Theron In Snow White Re-Imagining, Maybe Alien Prequel
Charlize Theron has signed on to play the Evil Queen in Universal’s Snow White and The Huntsman with Michael Fassbender said to in the running for the huntsman character (Johhny Depp was originally considered). However there’s something of a race going on between Universal and Relativity Media who are also aiming to deliver a similar […]
H.R. Giger Returns for The Alien ‘Prequel’
The acclaimed artist who conceived much of the terrifying world unleashed in 1979’s Alien is re-teaming with Ridley Scott for the upcoming prequel feature. Carmen Scheifele, the wife of the surrealist sculptor and designer H.R. Giger spoke with German TV and said that her husband was indeed returning to work with Scott on the sets and […]
Lindelof Overhauls Alien, Onboard for Trek 2
Damon Lindelof is one of the creative minds who brought us the mind bending TV juggernaut Lost which concluded in May, now the writer / producer is focusing his efforts on projects for the big screen. Having worked as a script doctor for the studios, he became the Go-to-guy and is now a significant influence […]
Are the Alien Prequels in Limbo?
It was all a buzz when Ridley Scott announced he was returning to the Alien Franchise for not one, but two films set to be prequels to the original 1979 movie. Pre-production had begun with Lost writer Damon Lindleof recently hired to re-write John Spaits original script to achieve maximum narrative effect. The latest 3d […]