The stills are mainly of the large room of cannisters we've seen in leaked photos before, but this time we also get a proper look at the giant head, and according to EW, Ridley Scott refers to this room as "the Ampule room".
Click on the images below for a better look.
In this next scan we see the giant head again, but this time further back. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Kate Dickie's character (currently unnamed) inspecting one of the ampules, while David (Michael Fassbender) approaches the giant head.
In the smaller image we see Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) and Captain Janek (Idris Elba) on the bridge of the 'Prometheus'. Take a closer look at Elba's t-shirt. I want one of those for Christmas.
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Entertainment Weekly #1183 should be available in shops in the US by December 2nd, or earlier if you're a subscriber.
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I hardly can't wait!!! Am already very horny!
ReplyDeleteI don't know what I find more frightening between the giant head in the pics or the above comment
ReplyDeleteTo hell with those 16 seconds of phone recorded shit from last week. The detail and intensity here are already making my nipples hard.
ReplyDeleteim so hot over this my dick is leaking. somebody fuck me...STAT!
ReplyDeleteIs Logan Marshall-Green an effin' stud or what? (sigh)
ReplyDeleteThe head is sort of scary. I was hoping for more of something like a giant head that Giger designed for the Darkseed game. NOW that was scary/unnerving!
ReplyDeleteHmmmm
ReplyDeleteAn ampule is a hermetically sealed container which is used to preserve a sample of something from air and contaminants. Now we know the plot.
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Must say those pics look a little naff, as the Brits say.
ReplyDeleteIm drooling over these pics... can't wait to see the trailer
ReplyDeleteWhat the fuck could that giant head be?! Is it a statute, is it animated, will it talk, will it open up? Is that face representative of what the true image of the Space Jockey is? Maybe the Space Jockeys created man in their image. Perhaps that elephantine carcass we saw in the derelict in Alien was merely a suit and mask.
ReplyDeleteThe Empire article back in march suggested that Prometheus may well become the "nightmarish inversion" of Avatar just as Alien was to Star Wars in 1979. These pics go a long way to reinforcing that notion for me, and if ever a film needed a nighmarish inversion, it is the steaming pile of cartoonish Hollywood kak that is Avatar.
ReplyDelete"Is that face representative of what the true image of the Space Jockey is?"
ReplyDeleteOh God, I hope not! That would be such a let down. We travel all the way across the galaxy for what? To find ourselves? How exciting....
Speculating here...I don't think the space jockeys are the Gods/engineers. They'll turn out to be a real alien race -- nonhuman in other words -- who give technology to the human party that displeases the Tall human-like Gods/Engineers, hence the meaning of the title of the film.
ReplyDeleteThe Playlist is reporting that Charlize Cheron revealed in a recent interview that Patrick Wilson's role is small and only confined to "flashbacks". This leads me to believe that his character is that of the younger human Bishop, who was the CEO of Weyland Yutani...!
ReplyDeleteIf "God" created Man in his image, whose to say they might not be drawing the same parallel in the context of this film? There are rumours floating about the internet that suggest the Space Jockeys are blue humanoid in appearance.
ReplyDeleteWill bet my bottom dollar that the ultimate genetic form of the xenomorph that we all know and love will be the result of a tinkering and blending of alien and human and mechanical DNA or whatever, which gives the xenomorph their vicious and savage nature? Would that not be the ultimate irony?
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Was looking at the Alien costume at Deutsche Film Museum. The humanoid skull under the dome of the head can't be ignored. The Xeno's are part human, and the film will I believe deal with the concept of metamorphosis.
ReplyDeleteWho get's morphed? Theron or Rapace? Fassbender I'm sure instigates the process secretly. Bishop spoke about the psychotic nature of earlier androids, I'm sure we'll see more of this. Possibly ;)
"Ampulex Wasp" (aka Ampoule Wasp), is a wasp specimen that inocculates his eggs in a live croackroach. The croackroach is kept alive during all process, till the new wasp emerges.
ReplyDeletereminds me of DARK CITY
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EW uses pics that have a bright, Photoshopped look... The sets were probably overlit for 3D, too... but having said that I really love how this is going. The head and ampule room look scary. I guess the Tron-style suits are worn underneath the Alien-style spacesuits - like a wetsuit worn under a deep-sea diving suit.
ReplyDeleteMaybe there is no SJ race per say
ReplyDeleteWhat we know as the SJ is actually
A diseased (or infected) engineer
That happens towards the end of
The film?
from the free dictionary:
ReplyDeleteampule
a small, hermetically sealed glass or plastic container, e.g. one containing medication for parenteral administration or semen for insemination. Called also ampoule.
Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary, 3 ed. © 2007 Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved
"Will bet my bottom dollar that the ultimate genetic form of the xenomorph that we all know and love will be the result of a tinkering and blending of alien and human and mechanical DNA or whatever, which gives the xenomorph their vicious and savage nature? Would that not be the ultimate irony?"
ReplyDelete-Anon 23 November 2011 03:45
If Alien 79 is all about the terror of the Outsider, the Other, then what could be worse than learning that we're the real monsters? What is it Bishop says in Alien 3 "It was with us all the way..."
heres a thought to some of you guys - why dont you stop guessing whats going to happen and the exact details of the plot and just wait a few months till you can see the movie?
ReplyDeleteits actually not that long now till its out!
gonna be abit of a mine field avoiding spoilers from now to then...best cut back on this site and imdb
It's not Giger style. ...is really Giger involved?
ReplyDeleteHm. I have to say I don't really care too much for the set / costume design. The whole blue-ish space/wet-suites look way too generic too me. I almost feel I've seen them a thousand times before in other scifi movies. What's with the blue colour (suits/ship interior) anyway? I miss the iconic, timeless set/prop design of Alien 1 already ...
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ReplyDeletei completely agree. the suits look too stylized and sporty. I liked the more utilitarian and decayed design from the previous movies.
this shit looks too "action-ready". i, for one, am pretty disappointed.
they look like fucking X-men uniforms. WTF!
ReplyDeleteI think the blue astronaut costumes look totally shit. I was kind of hoping for the white coloured costumes of the first Alien film. The blue costumes make these characters look like fucking superheroes...not the intended image of this new film!
ReplyDeleteMaybe the ultimate revelation Scott is going to make in this film is that the fusion of human and alien DNA with mechanical technology resulted in the xenomorph. I also interpreted the xenomorph creature as being metaphoric for the most base primal drives of humans...the drives to procreate, consume resources,conquer threats, and ensuring we are the top of the food chain. Thus the xenomorph is just an extreme allegory of...humanity. Just because humans have cultivated civilisation along our evolutionary progress does not necessary erase our true primal nature. Maybe this is the symbolism of the xenomorph.
ReplyDeletePandora, don't open the box! There's a facehugger inside!
ReplyDeleteThe Space Jockeys worship Pinhead from Hellraiser, minus the pins.
ReplyDeleteThe big three shot has superimposed heads on suited bodies. I'm surprised Fox allowed that, because it looks terrible.
@23rd nov. 19:31
ReplyDeleteSo you are saying that the prequel is the flip side of alien ressurection??? Great movie that was too....{not}
I think that those themes wanted to be conveyed in Alien Resurrection, just not very well. In that movie,the alien was humanised. Yes, I think that Scott is trying to present a flip side of that in Prometheus, with much more depth and artistic merit. Prometheus is about knowledge and creation. Alien Resurrection was about a kid's science project gone wrong....
ReplyDeleteThe problem, especially among the fans is that this film isn't going to please everyone.
ReplyDeleteThe spacesuits are shit, noooo we cant have any connection between humans and the Space Jockeys etc.
Prometheus isnt going to be all things to all men unfortunatly. It's also not a democracy, Mr Scott is making his own movie, the rest of us is just along for the ride!
Big Rich, I think you're right. Perhaps Prometheus is not going to please those people who are looking for a typical action movie. But then again, perhaps it is too early to assume that there will be a vast depth to the movie. Sometimes I wonder whether all this secrecy about the movie is really about Scott wanting people to be surprised and not bring in preconceived notions/parallels from the previous films...OR whether it is merely a publicity stunt intended to boost box office results on opening night. Since we are salivating waiting for this movie and accepting small scraps of information thrown at us, one could be forgiven for thinking that Prometheus is going to be THE movie of the century, like Gone With The Wind or Citizen Kane, but somehow I doubt it. Scott has had his fair share of hits and misses as well. Prometheus may turn out to be a masterpiece of the science-fiction genre...or a verbose, epic disaster of titanic proportions. Remember that John Travolta thought that Battlefield: Earth was a good idea at the time.
ReplyDeleteThese allegories exist for the previous Alien films:
ReplyDeleteAlien was about birth.
Aliens was about motherhood.
Alien3 was about abortion.
Alien Resurrection was about incest.
Prometheus is going to be about intercourse.
I read those metaphors somewhere else and written by someone else. I am not smart enough to come up with them on my own.
for anyone hating on the space suits, remember that Nostromo was a towing vehicle. "truckers in space," as the makers of the film would call them. The decay idea was that their technology was old, and they did not have the best that the company could give. Check out this link to a new concept design being worked on for a skin tight space suit.
ReplyDeletehttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/photogalleries/spacesuit-pictures/index.html
I have heard that the mission in Prometheus is a higher end research /discovery mission of scientists put together by the corporation. It makes sense that this would be a cleaner and slicker looking ship and crew. It wouldn't make sense to just copy Alien's design just for nostalgic reasons.
Scott is just showing us a well funded mission, as opposed to Truckers in space, Marines in space, Prisoners in space, Idiot mercenaries in space ( I hated Resurrection.)
Also, the lighting on these photos is all EW. I don't read that Magazine anymore. Empire!!!
Where is that bloody cat?
ReplyDeleteOh, there it is, next to the SJ.
I'm afraid penetration may be redundant. Think 'Will to Power' and then maybe we have an idea of the themes running through Sir Ridleys head...
ReplyDeleteAll this really makes me smile...You just know Scott will go his own way no matter what people think.. Every1 will just have to wait and see ... 3d rigs require high light levels to work effectively and that super slick look is gonna work well with that depth of field. Atmospher/bells and whistles will be added in post.. Ask yourselves...Scott has made some not so good films but have you ever seen one he made that looked shit?...
ReplyDeletei have to agree that the costumes look crap, way to "Star Trek". Hopefully they are a foil to the rough and dirty horrors that await them.
ReplyDeleteNo it wasn't a cat....it was Noomi in her catsuite.
ReplyDeleteToo much Indiana Jones for me.
ReplyDeleteAnd whenever you see Darth Vader, do you think of Hayden Christensen?
Whenever i will watch Alien, i will never think of whatever Prometheus will come up with.
What impressed me most about the first film were the scenarios. Remember the dark skies, the lava rocks that served as backdrop to the space ship? Or remember the ambiguity of the alien creature? The charm of the archetype of the spacecraft and its pilot? The simple plot of the film with a sense of mystery about a civilization totally different from the human? DanielO'Bannon, the screenwriter, did not want a sequel of Alien, because it would lose the effect of the first film. He was right.
ReplyDeleteHow can you make such sweeping statement without seeing the film...
ReplyDeleteOMG. (head in hands)
My advise to all you critics is stay away from the movie if you hate it that much already, its clear you have made your minds up already and all you will do is waste 2 hours of your life going to see the film.
If you cant give this film the chance it deserves, go away and find a movie you do like.
No, all I am saying is that the movie could be good or bad. Since I have not seen it yet (and neither have you for that matter), I will not at this stage assume that it is going to be the cinematic masterpiece of the century.
ReplyDeleteDear Big Rich
ReplyDeleteA sequel is, by definition, a misguided attempt to revive a brilliant idea that has immortalized a movie. If this new film by Ridley Scott will be a masterpiece or not, is irrelevant. What I meant is that the '"idea" has been used in the first film.
A sequel is not necessarily just a misguided attempt to revive...there are examples of sequels which have surpassed their originating movie. Such example is Ternminator 2: Judgment Day.
ReplyDeleteBig Rich, you are making a sweeping defence of a film you have not yet seen.
ReplyDeleteDefence in the fact i will reserve judgement until i have seen the film...
ReplyDeleteAs if.
But isn't that what I am doing, too?! I never made a foregone conclusion...
ReplyDeleteTerminator 2? Terminator 2 omg I walked out of that film. What a load of shit. Omg it destroyed any existential overtones of the frist film which is a masterpeice and replaced them with family values omg I can be the only one who saw through that steaming pile of fx shit. Terminator 2 is Camerion selling out in full regalia.. Without out Terminator 2 there would be no Avitar... That other steaming pile of fx. Maybe. Maybe Evil Dead 2 is a better comparison of what ur looking 4. For the rest of you I apologize. MEM
ReplyDeleteI agree that Avatar is an overated, verbose piece of shit. It merely has beautiful imagery to sustain itself. You would be better off looking at an oil painting.
ReplyDeleteAnyone care to speculate on the run time of Prometheus? Seems to me it's an epic so it hoots run at least 120 - 140 min. But doesn't Ridley prefer 90ish min stylistically. I'm not sure what his latest like Robbin hood etc are, but his last cut of ALIEN was the shortest yet.
ReplyDeleteI've got an oil painting or two to sell
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ReplyDeleteYou do your job and
ReplyDeleteLET ME DO MINE. YES?
Hi...Ridley? Glad to realise you are monitoring this website.
ReplyDeletepeople !
ReplyDeletesome have already made up in their mind what they want to see for an alien prequel. and im sorry this movie is not gonna be that, you know why?
Because Ridley Scott loves creativity and hires the best and most creative people to work on this movie. so when you people out there whit no imaginations say: This is how i want an alien prequel to be. Ridley will answer : fuck that shit. im gonna come up with something you never have seen before.
people get dissepointed because the movie wasnt what they were expecting when in fact the movie was more original and diffrent from what they expected.
If there is ONE director which deserves to make an alien prequel its Ridley because its hes universe and he created it and not you guys. None of you who hates prometheus already have the imagination to create the universe that Ridley created. So show him the respect he deserves. Those haters who are bitching that the spacesuite isnt a total rip-off from the first movie fuck off. you dont deserve to see this movie then. And last of all. Leave Big Rich alone, the guy is fair and isnt jumping on any conclusion so stop giving him shit.
i wish i was as fair as Big rich, but im not because i know this is gonna be the greatest fucking Sci-Fi movies in YEARS. So fuck you haters, go watch something else, IM gonna fucking watch Prometheus!!!!!!
Lasse
Yeah, whatever! The higher the expectation, the greater the fall!
ReplyDeleteDo you think Ridley Scott had the same vision with G. I. Jane?
ReplyDelete@anonymous 25 November 2011 15:47
ReplyDeleteALIEN (Director's Cut) - close to 2hours
Blade Runner Final Cut - close to 2hours
Body of Lies - 2hours
Robin Hood (Director's Cut) - 2 and a half hours
And for people with negative views, at least Prometheus isn't directed by Uwe Boll.
Ridley did G.I. Jane?
ReplyDeleteYeah, Scott also directed Body Of Lies...both masterpieces of cinema. Not!
ReplyDeleteLooks like somebody is on a PR campaign!
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit disappointed. The Prometheus bridge and spacesuits looks too clean and perfect, while the characters look too fresh-from-the-hairdressers to be taken seriously. What happened to the gritty realism of the original Alien?
ReplyDeleteThe space journey in Prometheus is meant to be a deluxe one, whereas the journey in Alien was merely a truck ride...
ReplyDeleteYea I'm sure the production value is all very intentional. IMHO most of the haters are really fan bois jonesing for a trailer... those still just don't get their willies all excited like those movies do... common FOX...
ReplyDeleteThe Velvet Underground had it right...
"Twenty-six dollars (price of 3D admission) in my hand..."
Well I guess it might of
ReplyDeleteInteresting preproduction
Value? And Demi More
With a shaved head might
Have all seemed exciting
At the time. I mean Thelma
And Louise worked, right?