Trailer for Ridley Scott's Alien prequel leaked

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

Terrible footage but here is a good description:

• The trailer starts with the 20th Century FOX logo. You hear a transmission. A woman (which I assume to be Rapace) is saying "...got to stop... was wrong.. so wrong...I'm so sorry...". You can hear the last part very clearly.
• The first scene shows a spaceship (similar to the one seen in the first leaked trailer) flying towards a planet on the background.
• Next you see is the surface of a planet and some sort of facility. It kinda looks like a Lunar base to me.
• Now they show this scene from the Comic-con footage.
• You can see the film's title forming in the background during most of the trailer. Pretty much like in the introductory scene of Alien.
• Next is the Ampule room. They show it off from all different angles and finally a close up of the ampules. Suddenly you hear a high pitch scream. It's not human. It sounds like if it was from a facehugger. Then there's a lot of smoke from what seems to be acid corrosion. They show a guy in a spacesuit. He's alone. Screaming and putting his hands over his helmet. It looks just like the Kane/derelict scene in Alien.
• Now they show the same spaceship from earlier. Same shot as in the first leaked trailer. Flying towards what seems to be a different planet in the background.
• The next 2 scenes are from the comic-con footage. 1, 2.
• Now they show Vickers running across a hallway. Same scene as in the first leaked trailer.
• Next seems to me someone in a spacesuit. Driving a futuristic vehicle in some desert like surface. Heading towards some structure or facility in the middle of nowhere at full speed.
• Impressive shot of the Iceland waterfalls.
• Next is this scene from the comic-con footage. They seem to be shooting at something or someone but they don't show it.
• Next you see is some grey-black serpent like creature. Jumping ala facehugger from some sort of grey-goo cavity. Now they show the whole scene. There's two guys in their spacesuits. One lying on the ground (it seems to be the impregnated guy from earlier) and another one checking on him. The creature jumps from what seems to be the insides of the previous impregnated guy to the other one.
• Now they show someone with a expression of pain. The guy is still in his spacesuit and someone appears to be holding him in their arms.
• Now you can see a device or hologram of some sort. It looks like an atom or a planet. I'm not sure if it's a planet or just some molecular structure tbh. The center of the hologram is a single sphere so it should be a planet system. Probably the coordinates to some other world.
• Now this shot from comic-con.
• Next is a spaceship being destroyed while in the air.
• One guy in a spacesuit pouncing at someone else while holding something. It looks like it's going to hurt.
• Next is the space jockey room. Same as in the Comic-con footage. The center piece of the plate opens and the space jockey chair rotates out of the ground.
• Next scene shows off a very inflated belly. Like if the person was pregnant but there's something bigger than a chestbuster moving inside. Seems to be Rapace's.
• Idris Elba yells while aboard of what seems to be the Prometheus.
• The sandstorm + Rapace spacesuit scene. Same as in the first leaked trailer. Close up of Rapace. She gets hit by the storm and she falls down a pit. It's the scene depicted in the official still released around comic-con.
• Now you can clearly read Prometheus. The whole title has formed in the background. They show it for a few seconds.
• Now a close up of Rapace's face. She's in pain. It seems to be the same scene as in the first leaked trailer. The one with the green lasers scanning her belly.
• Now they show someone in a spacesuit looking at the derelict in the surface of a planet with clear skies.
• The words "They went looking"
• The derelict again. It's vertical to the ground. It would be impossible to enter it from the same place as in Alien.
• The words "for earth's beginning"
• Still on the same planet. The derelict (or something really big) seems to be falling down from above. The guy in the spacesuit is running away now. Trying not to get crushed.
• The words "what they found"
• They now show two guys running away.
• The words "could be its the end"
• They show the same guys again. Running away from what appears to be a huge gigerish structure (it feels like it's moving but it's hard to tell). Perhaps the derelict in flight. There's a lot of smoke. What appears to be debris on fire are falling from above. They keep running away from it.
• The trailer ends.
• The music reminded me a lot of the one from Inception (the 'horns sounds'). But mixed with what appears to be the music from the original trailer for Alien. Same music during all the trailer.

[Buck]

I don't really care about 3D, but the only way to see this on the big IMAX screen was to see it in 3D.

Far and away the best 3D film I've seen.

I think I've only seen 3 (Up, The Avengers, and Prometheus).

They were all very good in 3D, but this time I literally felt like Michael Fassbender's face was within reaching distance...

That being said, as long as you take the "Alien" element out of this movie, it's a really good sci-fi thriller. I guess it sets up for a sequel, but who knows...

Okay here's some things I'm thinking about in spoiler tags.

Spoiler!

First keep in mind that I haven't seen Alien in like 10 years and these questions might sound stupid...

1. The guy who killed himself in the beginning. Do you think that he was the life-force behind creating the Alien race (and the model of that huge ass statue), or do you think that he didn't like what his fellow people were doing and he was killing himself to get out of it?

2. Was the Alien that came out of the dude at the end the first "Alien?" I don't know what that species is called, but it seems that it was born of our human DNA rather than their human DNA and it was different than the others.

3. Why the **** didn't they get a real old person to play Peter Weyland? Shit looked so fake.

4. Only one of these questions is valid. How did she put David back together? or How did she figure out how to fly the ship? That's the only thing that really bugs me.

[Guru]

Originally Posted by Buck

I don't really care about 3D, but the only way to see this on the big IMAX screen was to see it in 3D.

Far and away the best 3D film I've seen.

I think I've only seen 3 (Up, The Avengers, and Prometheus).

They were all very good in 3D, but this time I literally felt like Michael Fassbender's face was within reaching distance...

That being said, as long as you take the "Alien" element out of this movie, it's a really good sci-fi thriller. I guess it sets up for a sequel, but who knows...

Okay here's some things I'm thinking about in spoiler tags.

Spoiler!

First keep in mind that I haven't seen Alien in like 10 years and these questions might sound stupid...

1. The guy who killed himself in the beginning. Do you think that he was the life-force behind creating the Alien race (and the model of that huge ass statue), or do you think that he didn't like what his fellow people were doing and he was killing himself to get out of it?

2. Was the Alien that came out of the dude at the end the first "Alien?" I don't know what that species is called, but it seems that it was born of our human DNA rather than their human DNA and it was different than the others.

3. Why the **** didn't they get a real old person to play Peter Weyland? Shit looked so fake.

4. Only one of these questions is valid. How did she put David back together? or How did she figure out how to fly the ship? That's the only thing that really bugs me.

Ummm, why not Charlize Theron's face?

[Buck]

Originally Posted by Guru

Ummm, why not Charlize Theron's face?

Did you see the movie yet?

Spoiler!

she wasn't really in many scenes outside of the ship...Fassbender's head was detached and they had closeups of it on the entire IMAX screen, that's why I said him...

[Guru]

Originally Posted by Buck

Did you see the movie yet?

Spoiler!

she wasn't really in many scenes outside of the ship...Fassbender's head was detached and they had closeups of it on the entire IMAX screen, that's why I said him...

Nope. I'm just giving you shit. heh

I know what you mean though. I went to see U23D in Imax a couple years ago and it felt like I could just reach out and grab the mic from Bono.

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

Originally Posted by frazod

All these reviews are making me very happy.

You will hate it because some stuff isn't explained fully, or doesn't appear to make sense, and likely wasn't intended to.

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Like so - just surround the text with [ spoiler ] and [ /spoiler ]. Just don't have a space between the [ and ].

And this is an actual spoiler, here -

Spoiler!

So were the Engineers really the creators of humanity, or were they just a vindictive race bent on destruction? I love the entire way he took that idea. I think humans always see their "creator(s)" as benign, helpful, and peaceful. Left it wide open for a sequel, and I hope he continues on with the storyline.

Yes,

Spoiler!

they were our creators.

Whatever David said made the engineer realize he needed to destroy us, though. It was pretty clear to me he thought David, the artificial life form, was an abomination.

[Buck]

Originally Posted by Fine Uncut Meat

Yes,

Spoiler!

they were our creators.

Whatever David said made the engineer realize he needed to destroy us, though. It was pretty clear to me he thought David, the artificial life form, was an abomination.

Spoiler!

what was the deal with the first engineer in the beginning killing himself?

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

Originally Posted by Buck

Okay here's some things I'm thinking about in spoiler tags.

Spoiler!

First keep in mind that I haven't seen Alien in like 10 years and these questions might sound stupid...

1. The guy who killed himself in the beginning. Do you think that he was the life-force behind creating the Alien race (and the model of that huge ass statue), or do you think that he didn't like what his fellow people were doing and he was killing himself to get out of it?

2. Was the Alien that came out of the dude at the end the first "Alien?" I don't know what that species is called, but it seems that it was born of our human DNA rather than their human DNA and it was different than the others.

3. Why the **** didn't they get a real old person to play Peter Weyland? Shit looked so fake.

4. Only one of these questions is valid. How did she put David back together? or How did she figure out how to fly the ship? That's the only thing that really bugs me.

Spoiler!

1. No, that was very clearly an engineer seeding life on earth, in a sacrificial rite. As I said, that scene made it clear how important, almost religious, the engineers take their responsibility, and explains why the engineer at the end decides he needs to wipe out the idiots who just woke him up.

2. No, it was very clearly not the first Alien. The facility on the planet had obviously manufactured xenomorphs before, as evidenced by the mural. The whole places was a bio-weapons facility, and the xenomorph was the ultimate end result.

Also, the engineer corpses in the other cryo tubes (there were 4) all have their chests burst wide open. It would seem pretty obvious to me some aliens got loose thousands of years ago on that planet, and that's why all the engineers were dead, and running from something horrible in the holographic recordings.

3. I didn't mind it. I like Guy Pearce and thought he nailed the character. There were also deleted scenes with a young Weyland.

4. David was the one who knew how to fly the ship. And we don't know if she put him back together. Maybe the sequel is Dr. Shaw and David, The Android Head having adventures.

[NewChief]

Okay. I haven't watched this movie or really followed its creation despite loving the Aliens franchise. All that being said, the ideas put forth in it really really remind me of a book called The Sparrow

Check it out. Seriously. Wonderful book about First Contact and what it all means if that contact isn't benevolent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sparrow_(novel)

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by Buck

Spoiler!

what was the deal with the first engineer in the beginning killing himself?

Spoiler!

At first I thought the thing was using his DNA to "seed" a lifeless planet, but I changed my opinion to he was actually killing the planet with his rotten DNA after watching how the revived Engineer tried to kill everyone off, and then was targeting Earth.

[Buck]

Originally Posted by Fine Uncut Meat

Spoiler!

1. No, that was very clearly an engineer seeding life on earth, in a sacrificial rite. As I said, that scene made it clear how important, almost religious, the engineers take their responsibility, and explains why the engineer at the end decides he needs to wipe out the idiots who just woke him up.

2. No, it was very clearly not the first Alien. The facility on the planet had obviously manufactured xenomorphs before, as evidenced by the mural. The whole places was a bio-weapons facility, and the xenomorph was the ultimate end result.

Also, the engineer corpses in the other cryo tubes (there were 4) all have their chests burst wide open. It would seem pretty obvious to me some aliens got loose thousands of years ago on that planet, and that's why all the engineers were dead, and running from something horrible in the holographic recordings.

3. I didn't mind it. I like Guy Pearce and thought he nailed the character. There were also deleted scenes with a young Weyland.

4. David was the one who knew how to fly the ship. And we don't know if she put him back together. Maybe the sequel is Dr. Shaw and David, The Android Head having adventures.

Damn, I need to watch the movie again. I completely forgot about the stuff you brought up in #2.

As for #1, I just read something interesting on FO that

Spoiler!

each jar in the shrine room might have had something different in it, I never considered that. So what he drank in the beginning isn't necessarily the same as what were in those jars.

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

The fact that people are still wondering about all this shit is pissing a lot of people off.

Everything is not supposed to be fully explained.

But to me it was pretty obvious that was a "planet seeding" ritual.

[Buck]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Spoiler!

At first I thought the thing was using his DNA to "seed" a lifeless planet, but I changed my opinion to he was actually killing the planet with his rotten DNA after watching how the revived Engineer tried to kill everyone off, and then was targeting Earth.

I think I like Clay's argument better.

Spoiler!

He gave life to Earth, and the later Engineers thought that Humans were bad and so they created something to decimate us all.

[Buck]

Originally Posted by Fine Uncut Meat

The fact that people are still wondering about all this shit is pissing a lot of people off.

Everything is not supposed to be fully explained.

But to me it was pretty obvious that was a "planet seeding" ritual.

Every good story should leave some doubt.

Especially when you can make money off of a sequel...

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

In fact, according to some early drafts of Prometheus, Scott wanted Jesus to be an Engineer, which sounds really stupid.