Elba, Harris and Dickie Join Ridley Scott's 'Alien'-esque prequel, 'Prometheus'
Plus more talk about story and aliens
In the last four days or so Ridley Scott's one-time Alien prequel, now titled Prometheus, has made a few headlines. Earlier today the Daily Mail revealed Idris Elba (The Losers), Sean Harris (The Red Riding Trilogy) and Kate Dickie ("The Pillars of the Earth") have joined previously cast Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender in the film.
The "Mail" story also carries a quote from Scott saying, "I was insistent that the script not leak onto the internet, where it gets dissected out of context, which spoils it for everyone." Of course, details have slipped out, some by Scott himself back when the film was originally labeled an Alien prequel.
"It's set in 2085, about 30 years before Sigourney [Weaver's character Ellen Ripley]," Scott told Empire. "It's fundamentally about going out to find out 'Who the hell was that Space Jockey?'" The "Space Jockey" he's referring to is the giant being seen in the original film just prior to John Hurt being attacked (get more on that here).
However, that storyline was a bit up in the air as the film went from being an Alien prequel to being titled Prometheus (unless this is all a bit of misdirection), but since then Sky.com had a report from a source saying, "They've built the 'space jockey' cockpit at Pinewood [Studios] as seen in the original Alien film, so it definitely takes place in the same world as Alien."
I never heard if this was confirmed or not, but Scott also said in the "Daily Mail" report, "[Prometheus is] the story of creation, the gods and the man who stood against them. It's not a small film. I'm using the giant James Bond 007 stage at Pinewood and six other sound stages to film it."
Scott has always said Prometheus had "strands of Alien's DNA" and recently Michael Fassbender, who plays an android in the film, told MTV "there's a definite connecting vein" and Fassbender isn't done talking.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly Fassbender adds, "It's a different story, but it's also got the traditional roots. Alien fans will recognize things in it. It's not ignoring Alien, there's still a link to that world. But it's a different story. It's definitely connected, though."
Elsewhere, the talk of the alien species continues with Sky Movies saying the aforementioned Space Jockey has been built as an eight foot animatronic and that original alien creature designer, HR Giger, "is working on the project but only in an advisory capacity."
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I'm hoping the Space Jockey info is true as I've always wanted to see the 'backstory' on that being.
Iris is the next Denzel.
This cast is jaw dropping.
Iris CAN be the next Denzal, you mean.
His work in The Wire stands up –– his filmic work, not so much. He needs more Do The Right Thing, Glory, Malcolm X, Training Day, The Hurricane, Inside Man, Moe Better Blues, and less slow motion shot walking like a jackass through a tunnel of flames and things exploding around him like the last movie he was in. My-o-My.
Badly worded on my part. Hyperbolic too.
He has the potential if he starts getting great gigs… man those films you listed are immense.
That slow walking is his trademark. I'm totally serious in saying that if Luther was a feature film with feature film budget, I think Elba might've been nominated for Best Actor. I know it's my subjective opinion, but I'm being totally serious.
Sounds fine with me. It's much better than another go-around of Aliens, people screaming — someone says die and blows the creature to poo. No, this is much better because we do not know what we will see, honestly. Fincher tried to do this in Alien 3 but got creamed for it –– the lack of script going into production was to blame for that flick — but I believe a coherent story can be pulled from the ashes by Mr Scott; he wants this to be good and he is more than an able storyteller with visual flare.
WOW!!!!!!!!! This film gets really interesting! Go Idris Elba!!
Love the cast and really hope Ridley hits a home run with this. When he's on I think he's one of the best directors out there for large-scope projects (Alien, Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, American Gangster). Hopefully this will be more like those and less like Robin Hood, which was definitely his type of film, but ended up being a giant misfire.
I wonder when Ridley's going to call out Abbie Cornish again. I thought this might've been it but it seems like there's too many cooks now.
I'm literally salivating at te prospect of Rapace, Elba, Theron and Fassbender…
I was starting to get more interested when the back story of the space jockey seemed to be getting dumped………….it really depends on how he figures now because, on his own, I was never burning to know that much about him.
I'm treading carefully with this one at this point, and I think I'm going to have to know a little more before getting to excited. All this 'it's connected to the Alien story, but it's not, but it's connected' crap is just annoying me now.
Make up their minds and less of the soundbites that mean nothing.