{"id":18978,"date":"2011-07-25T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=18978"},"modified":"2017-05-15T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T20:52:12","slug":"ridley-scott-alien-prequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/ridley-scott-alien-prequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridley Scott Talks About &#8216;Alien&#8217; Prequel That&#8217;s Not an &#8216;Alien&#8217; Prequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t personally intend to run a whole lot of coverage of Comic-Con here in the blog this week. I&#8217;m not attending the event, and most of the fanboy wankery that happens there doesn&#8217;t interest me. However, I did find this video clip of Ridley Scott talking about his now-shooting movie &#8216;Prometheus&#8217; (which at this point may or may not be a prequel to &#8216;Alien&#8217;) fairly interesting.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Scott teleconferenced in to the convention from one of his shooting locations in Iceland. That&#8217;s screenwriter Damon Lindelof asking all the questions on the left, next to star Charlize Theron, who doesn&#8217;t say a word. A few minutes in, Scott is joined by co-star Noomi Rapace. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5LeIce4lc8s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From what I can gather, the movie will have only a tenuous connection to &#8216;Alien&#8217;, most apparent in the last few minutes. I assume that&#8217;s when we&#8217;ll finally see one of the Aliens, or (as had previously been rumored) the elephant-like Space Jockey from the first film. Scott claims that &#8216;Prometheus&#8217; comes from the same &#8220;DNA&#8221; as &#8216;Alien&#8217;, and grew out of an unanswered question that none of the previous movies in the series have addressed. (My presumption: Where do the Aliens come from?) However, the new movie goes off in a <em>&#8220;completely different direction.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other points of interest: <\/p>\n<p>Lindelof and Scott claim that the movie will minimize the use of CGI in favor of real sets and props. <\/p>\n<p>The movie is being photographed in 3D, which Scott loves. He says: <em>&#8220;I&#8217;ll never work without 3D again, even for small dialogue scenes. I love the whole process. 3D opens up the universe of even a small dialogue scene, so I&#8217;ve been very impressed with that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There will be two robots\/Replicants of some sort in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Theron and Rapace, the cast also features Michael Fassbender and Guy Pearce. <\/p>\n<p>The film is being shot with the expectation of a PG-13 rating. When asked if that has limited his creativity or ability to make the movie scary, Scott insists not. He also says that he&#8217;s been shooting harder footage as well, and will ultimately work with the producer to decide in editing which way to go. I&#8217;m sure this means that even if the theatrical release is PG-13, we&#8217;ll probably see a more graphic Director&#8217;s Cut on video. <\/p>\n<p>The film will be released next year. Scott appears genuinely excited by the project, and says that he wants to do another one immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Some brief footage from the film was shown to the crowd. You can find a description of that and a couple of lousy cell phone still images at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicbookmovie.com\/fansites\/debbiedowner\/news\/?a=42563\">Comic Book Movie<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> also <a href=\"https:\/\/insidemovies.ew.com\/2011\/07\/21\/prometheus-comiccon-alien-ridley-scot\/\">spoke to Lindelof and Theron<\/a> before the panel, and got them to talk a little more about what the movie will be. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> As for the title, what is Prometheus? A ship? A character? Simply an allusion to the Greek myth? Or will the alien be revealed as a Frankenstein-like human creation? (Remember, the full title of Mary Shelley&#8217;s tale was The Modern Prometheus.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to talk specifically about how it connects into the movie, but yes, [in Greek mythology], Prometheus was a titan who stole fire from the gods because they were keeping it for themselves and worried about what mankind would do if we got our paws on it. That&#8217;s a resonant theme. What are humans doing that we shouldn&#8217;t be doing?&#8221; Lindelof says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It also sounds really pretentious, like Inception,&#8221; he joked. &#8220;Yeah, it makes the movie sound so smart, which is better than my original title \u2013 Explosion!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some additional Q&#038;A footage in which Lindelof and Theron talk about the massive sets Scott built for the movie, and why it&#8217;s being shot in 3D.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3etBNhqZtAc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Does this new information make you excited for &#8216;Prometheus&#8217;? I think it sounds promising, but I have to admit to still being pretty skeptical. Honestly, I don&#8217;t think that Ridley Scott has made a decent movie since 1982. Will this one break the streak? 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