Prometheus in Cinefex 130 & New Promo Images
Cinefex’s 130th issue contains a huge feature on Prometheus where a bunch of new concept art and a still from a deleted scene are revealed. The feature also has an extensive write-up on many aspects of the film’s special effects work from CGI to prosthetics while showcasing a few VFX companies that took part in the film’s production.
Below you’ll find a few sample scans from the issue. And if you like what you see, you can purchase Cinefex 130 on the publisher’s site here http://www.cinefex.com/backissues/issue130.html !
And in other news, a batch of new promo pics and stills turned up on a Korean website. Nothing groundbreaking. But for the consummate Prometheus image collector, they are a must save.
Thanks to seeasea for the files and URL!
Well, I bet that last poster is the DVD cover.
God I hope not, that is some awful photoshopping skills. I hope they use the same photo from the cinefex cover, much much better.
So they just buried Sean Harris in the ground and stuck prosthetic legs over his shoulders?
I thought they did something like that.
It looked cool but physically unlikely.
I’m not sure why they didn’t just make up a contortionist for that shot?
Then they could have filmed a full body unfold instead of just a jump cut to him standing there.
But then why would they cover up Guy Pierce in latex instead of hiring an old man.
So many question, so few answers.
“It looked cool but physically unlikely.”
I thought that was the point, to show that he’d been physically changed by the alien virus.
“But then why would they cover up Guy Pierce in latex instead of hiring an old man.”
Because they used him for a viral so rather than trying to make an old man look young it would be easier to make a young man look old.
I agree that the point was to display suddenly post-mutation super human ability, but I’ve seen chinese acrobats do shit like that in real life.
(Not disconnect their legs, but alien looking positions like that.)
I just think it would have been much more impressive then a stationary mock up that has to be jump cut in editing.
And I’m pretty sure carny folk are willing to work for a reasonable price.
Not like hiring a popular actor like Guy Pierce, just to completely obscure him.
It just smacks of Ridley doing things by the absurd hollywood handbook, instead of using ingenuity like he used to do when he was a younger man.
The Guy Pearce casting complaint has been explained – there’s an interview with one of the movie’s fx designers discussing that Guy Pearce’s casting extended beyond the older Weyland seen in the final cut. In a scene that didn’t make it, Weyland is seen as a young man in a dream sequence witnessed by David.
“Oh, and as for why Weyland is played by Guy Pearce in old-man makeup, Spaihts says Damon Lindelof’s script showed the android David going inside Weyland’s dreams while he was in hypersleep — and in his dreams, Weyland is a young man, on a yacht surrounded by beautiful women. These dream conversations got cut, but Pearce’s casting was already locked in. Scott had originally wanted to cast Max von Sydow as Peter Weyland.”
From io9.com’s article, 10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Making Of Prometheus
http://goo.gl/3POA0
And what about the image under the Sean Harris picture? Is it the still from a deleted scene? It’s amazing.
It looks like a mock-up IMO.
Maybe a paining or CGI shopped into the spacesuit actor?
The alt Fified looks a little less defined then actual film footage.
But that could just be the resolution of the magazine.