A bunch of new Prometheus stills and concept art
Some great looking stills and concept art have recently emerged. The concept art portion was taken from the article “10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Making of Prometheus” by io9, which is a fascinating read in itself. Here’s a summary of the “10 things” in the article:
10. We could have gotten to see Mars being terraformed.
9. Any resemblance between the Prometheus and Serenity is purely accidental.
8. The movie’s creature designer also worked on Alien Vs. Predator
7. Pretty much all of those sets were built practically and modeled in 3-D.
6. Ridley Scott was constantly sketching and storyboarding.
5. The surface of LV-223 is a mixture of real-life vistas from Earth and NASA images.
4. The Prometheus art team started very, very small.
3. There’s an altar to H.R. Giger inside the “Head Room.”
2. A chiaroscuro-style balance of light and shadow is at the heart of the film’s aesthetic.
1. The creatures could have been much more monstrous.
For more detailed descriptions, check out the article at the source: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Making of Prometheus
And finally the images:
Source http://www.deathfall.com/forums/content.php?8254-Fuel-VFX-delivers-design-driven-sequences-for-Prometheus
Source http://www.hammerhead.com/new_site/2012/prometheus/prometheus.html
Source: http://io9.com/5917639/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-design-of-prometheus
**UPDATE**
The new images below are lifted from this article http://www.fxguide.com/featured/prometheus-rebuilding-hallowed-vfx-space , which is a fairly detailed look into the methods used by WETA to create the VFX for Prometheus.
Thanks to seeasea for the links!
Odd how the concept art of the chambers shows the engineers mouth statue opened? Maybe that was an idea that was tossed out or changed?
I honestly did expect the head to do something.
Bit of a lack of continuity between the Alien bursted suit of the Space-Jockey seen in Alien & the concept where the last angry ‘engineer’ (of our mass extinction) is chest bursted with his lovely Alien baby (genetic cross between our main lady & Engineer’s death-goo) nowhere near his flight seat & its inbuilt suit. Continuity could have been kept easily, so why not, is my question to Ridley? One of his Riddles never to answered alas.
The film really is full of mysteries only to be speculated at. Mysteries are good aren’t they, still? Does everything need to be neatly wrapped up so all know all things. It was no Alien, but I enjoyed it well enough. For all those critics out there, Go & do better.
It’s a different planet (LV-223, not LV-426), Engineer, ship and Alien baby from the one in the original movie, so it’s not a continuity error at all. The bioweapons found in Prometheus are not the same either, ampules instead of eggs etc.
It had nothing to do with the derelict in Alien (which had been there long enough for the Engineer to fossilize, iow much longer than a few decades), but the events of Prometheus makes us able to understand what happened to it; an outbreak led to them falling victim to their own weapons. Apparently they are so dangerous that this happens from time to time, which is why they don’t keep them on their home planet.
I’m really happy they didn’t retcon the fossilized space jockey into being just a few decades old. The derelict is supposed to seem ancient.
Just seen the film today. Weak character development. Weak script (and plot). Hadn´t been this dissapointed in a very long time. I guess i built my expectations too high, but why shouldn´t I being Ridley behind it and in the Alien universe? It´s easy to blame it on Lindelof… so I go with the easy, I blame him.
Awsome film, looking porward to tracking down those engineers!
Y’know.
Whack in a completely new score (preferably sinister and other-worldly).
Edit out all of the rubbish secondary characters.
Get rid of all of the scenes with cheesy dialogue….
and there’s a damned fine movie in here waiting to get out.
Oh.
And if possible reshoot all of the dreadful scenes with Weyland using a different actor.
Optimistic I guess.
I saw the film and enjoyed it fully. It did what it was supposed to do- take the viewer on a journey. One thing is for certain, there never seems to be a lack of criticism. Of course, there are those who will never be satisfied. And for them, I have a few choice words…. DO BETTER.