I’ve been going back and forth about posting this all day. We live in such a saturated world where movies are spelled out to the last cameo before we ever hit the theater. I know a good story doesn’t rely on surprise…but goddammit, it feels so good to go into something cold.
But, I finally broke down and actually read the possible-but-maybe-not-but-probably plot of Prometheus. The stuff from Ridley Scott is ok, and not too spoilerish, just intriguing. It’s a nice companion to Damon Lindelof’s comments earlier this week.
The Hollywood Reporter has some quotes from Ridley Scott, who talked about the project at CineEurope. He confirmed the title refers to the name of a spaceship sent from Earth by an all-too familiar corporation. The name, however, is no accident. “The (space) journey, metaphorically, is about a challenge to the gods. NASA and the Vatican agree that is almost mathematically impossible that we can be where we are today without there being a little help along the way. That’s what we’re looking at (in the film), at some of Eric van Daniken’s ideas of how did we humans come about.”
Now, mysteriously a submission over at io9 claims to reveal the exact plot of Prometheus from beginning to end. It may not be legitimate, but it does fit really well with all the whispers of space jockeys, challenges to the gods, and the xenomorph itself. However, a clever fan fic person could probably churn that out just as easily. It’s really rather detailed, so I’ll just link to it and let you decide for yourself. Scott doesn’t want the plot leaked out, so let’s just play along, shall we?
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Most reasonable people would say von Daniken was a nutjob. But it’s a nice idea for a movie – the Space Jockeys created the human race…how cool/creepy is that?
” NASA and the Vatican agree that is almost mathematically impossible that we can be where we are today without there being a little help along the way.”
Is Ridley Scott pulling this ‘fiction’ out-of-his-arse to promote his film? As if NASA and the Vatican agree on anything.
Well, he doesn’t say that it’s exactly the SAME thing. The vatican says life on earth came into existence through God (a higher being), NASA (or at least some over there) say that life on earth was most probably kickstarted by something that came from outer space (spores, bacteria, blablabla). So he just exaggerates both claiming that life was started from/through something else… So yeah, there’s definetely some arse-pulling involved… 😉
So, Dan Brown’s writing this?
Nardo, that’s the funniest thing I’ve heard/read today. Just awesome dude.
Most religious fanatics and other non-philosophising and non-investigative sheeple would discard Von Daniken’s and similar theories as just nutjobs, yes. If he is going to make a film about these matters he’d better deliver.
Kudos for playing along Liz, let’s leave some mystery out there. btw where did you get that picture, that’s some seriously effed up stuff!
LIke I posted elsewhere: the (original) xenomorph: man + cockroach + story of Job ie, Space Jockey race creates both simply to see which “product” has longer shelf life
Script outline sounds like BS.
What esle do you expect from modern day Ridley Scott? This sounds absoutley fucking terrible. Talk about ruining any mystery to the origin of the “alien”, which was scary in the first place because it was an ALIEN…origin UNKNOWN…so fucking stupid…….if it’s true…..I’m still holding out that the GODS are humans, and that we created the Alien thinking we were God, and we get eaten by our creation….which is also fucking stupid.
RCA, your mom was fucking stupid for having unprotected sex which led to your birth.
uh oh… when all else fails, fall to the mom joke, or the “You’re a fag” line… either or.
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