Hey all, got some delayed news for ya regarding the not-quite-prequel-but-totally-still-is-a-prequel to Alien, Prometheus!
At Comic-con this year, the team behind the new film held a panel and showed off a teaser trailer. Well, unfortunately that trailer is not online. But our vary own Gareth got access to a bunch of awesome screen-grabs of the teaser. Check it out below!
Classic helmet!
Michael Fassbender with some sort of visor thing.
He's totally an android.
Hyper sleep.
Not having a good day.
Heck yes classic suits.
Purge it with fire.
Awesome ship.
Some more hyper sleep.
There's also a video online showing the Comic-Con panel for Prometheus, in which writer Damon Lindelof and Charlize Theron talk about the film and its direction. Definitely some interesting stuff.
io9 also did their own writeup of the footage shown, which is a highly interesting read. Read it here.
Here is a rather interesting excerpt of the writeup:
"And then the actual footage from the film starts, and its a huge flood of creeptastic imagery that recalls Alien but also a bit of 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are guys in pressure suits exploring an ancient chamber with weird hieroglyphs, and a guy in a spacesuit walking through a sliding door into a clean white chamber. And a guy (who might be Michael Fassbender) pulling a weird jelly-looking thing out of a canister. And as Ridley Scott's voiceover notes that things that may look small in the film will turn out to be important, there is a shot of a drop of blood on a finger. There is Charlize Theron on a table with bandages wrapped around her breasts, as though she's waking from hypersleep.
And then the footage gets faster and more furious, with a guy in a visor looking down at something, a woman in a suit walking into a red entryway, and a globe, and then Scott says, "The cast find an establishment which is not what they expected it to be, it's a civilization but what we find in it is very uncivilized behavior." And then there is insane carnage and people with goop inside their space helmets and someone shooting a flamethrower, and mayhem breaking loose in confined spaces. Meanwhile, Scott's voiceover is saying that there will be biomechanoids and the film will "break new ground." We see a giant pale planet with rings around it."
That's it for now folks! Special thanks to Gareth for the information and images!