Ridley Scott beams into Comic-Con to Unveil Prometheus
Jumat, 22 Juli 2011 by Android Blackberry
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Ridley Scott beams into Comic-Con to Unveil Prometheus
Alien director's return to sci-fi functions 'DNA' from space classic
It is 1 of next year's most extremely anticipated films, the first science fiction feature from Ridley Scott considering that Blade Runner additional than 25 years ago, but until yesterday no one had seen so a great deal as a second of footage.
Tens of thousands of fans got an early glimpse of Prometheus at San Diego's annual Comic-Con event yesterday in the course of a unique presentation which featured appearances from star Charlize Theron and screenwriter Damon Lindelof also as a satellite linkup to Scott himself on location in a remote portion of Iceland. Dubbed initially as a prequel to Alien, Scott's franchise-launching, genre-defining 1979 slasher flick in space, Prometheus had given that morphed into an original movie "with DNA" from the earlier film, the film-maker said.
"We've gone in a totally diverse direction," he mentioned. "But inside the last few minutes of the movie you'll recognize what we're talking about." He mentioned there "might be" two robots or cyborgs in the new film, a trope which would link it to its predecessors.
Asked why he had taken so lengthy to return towards the genre, Scott responded: "I was too busy doing other movies, exploring other genres. Frankly, I never ever thought about science fiction until I began to realise that there was one thing in the first Alien that no one ever asked questions about. I thought, well, that might be the centrepiece of what we've just completed."
He stated he was "very impressed" using the 3D technology utilised for the film, which had opened up "even modest dialogue scenes". Even so, as many scenes as attainable had been shot in live action instead of using CGI.
The footage shown yesterday consisted mainly of quickly cut shots with the crew of a spaceship. At 1 point, the camera panned up over a wall bearing hieroglyphic-like letters in a style recalling the HR Giger-designed set with the planetoid from the very first Alien film. The xenomorph monsters spawned by that movie had been absent, but a shot of some mechanical tubes filled with columns of green gunk recalled the "egg room" from the 1979 movie.
Lindelof, who took on hosting duties for the presentation, said there were some "big ideas" in Prometheus. "It covers a vast expanse of time, past, present and future," he stated. "It does not take place on Earth in any genuine important way. The way we're exploring the future is away from Earth and [asking] what are people like now? What have they gone through and what are they thinking of?
"Space exploration in the future is going to evolve into this thought that it's not just about going out there and obtaining planets to build colonies. It also has this inherent notion that the further we go out, the extra we learn about ourselves. The characters in this movie are preoccupied by the idea: what are our origins?"Ridley Scott beams into Comic-Con to Unveil Prometheus
Alien director's return to sci-fi functions 'DNA' from space classic
It is 1 of next year's most extremely anticipated films, the first science fiction feature from Ridley Scott considering that Blade Runner additional than 25 years ago, but until yesterday no one had seen so a great deal as a second of footage.
Tens of thousands of fans got an early glimpse of Prometheus at San Diego's annual Comic-Con event yesterday in the course of a unique presentation which featured appearances from star Charlize Theron and screenwriter Damon Lindelof also as a satellite linkup to Scott himself on location in a remote portion of Iceland. Dubbed initially as a prequel to Alien, Scott's franchise-launching, genre-defining 1979 slasher flick in space, Prometheus had given that morphed into an original movie "with DNA" from the earlier film, the film-maker said.
"We've gone in a totally diverse direction," he mentioned. "But inside the last few minutes of the movie you'll recognize what we're talking about." He mentioned there "might be" two robots or cyborgs in the new film, a trope which would link it to its predecessors.
Asked why he had taken so lengthy to return towards the genre, Scott responded: "I was too busy doing other movies, exploring other genres. Frankly, I never ever thought about science fiction until I began to realise that there was one thing in the first Alien that no one ever asked questions about. I thought, well, that might be the centrepiece of what we've just completed."
He stated he was "very impressed" using the 3D technology utilised for the film, which had opened up "even modest dialogue scenes". Even so, as many scenes as attainable had been shot in live action instead of using CGI.
The footage shown yesterday consisted mainly of quickly cut shots with the crew of a spaceship. At 1 point, the camera panned up over a wall bearing hieroglyphic-like letters in a style recalling the HR Giger-designed set with the planetoid from the very first Alien film. The xenomorph monsters spawned by that movie had been absent, but a shot of some mechanical tubes filled with columns of green gunk recalled the "egg room" from the 1979 movie.
Lindelof, who took on hosting duties for the presentation, said there were some "big ideas" in Prometheus. "It covers a vast expanse of time, past, present and future," he stated. "It does not take place on Earth in any genuine important way. The way we're exploring the future is away from Earth and [asking] what are people like now? What have they gone through and what are they thinking of?
"Space exploration in the future is going to evolve into this thought that it's not just about going out there and obtaining planets to build colonies. It also has this inherent notion that the further we go out, the extra we learn about ourselves. The characters in this movie are preoccupied by the idea: what are our origins?"Ridley Scott beams into Comic-Con to Unveil Prometheus
