I haven’t covered Ridley Scott’s Prometheus much, mainly because trying to understand anything about it has been exhausting, and I don’t feel like wasting that kind of energy on a guy whose last movie was Robin Hood. Suffice to say, it might be a prequel to 1979’s Alien. It was co-written by Damon Lindelof (of Lost and Cowboys and Aliens), so between all the space polar bears, time travel, and people becoming unstuck in time, it might be hard to determine whether it’s technically a prequel or something else, and that’s the reason they’re not saying.
In any case, Entertainment Weekly has a first look at some stills from the film, which appear to show Michael F. Assbender and Stringer Bell staring at a big giant head. Here’s how ThePlaylist describes it:
The first photo shows weary space travelers Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace, from the original “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”), her lover Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green), and her faithful robot butler, er, android companion David (Michael Fassbender). They’re wearing space suits that carry with it the same worn future aesthetic that made “Alien” so transfixing, and they’re all goggling at…something.
That “something” seems to be the giant mythic head in “The Ampule Room.” For those of who didn’t major in science, an ampule is a small glass vial used to preserve a sample, usually of a liquid. Both the title of the movie and the cryptic messages that have leaked out from those close to the movie suggest some truly cosmic, how-we-all-came-to-be overtones to the movie, and this could be a clue — what exactly is the Ampule Room keeping in? Besides that giant head?
Yeah… I’m just going to translate all that as “we still don’t know sh*t.” But it opens in summer 2012, so I’m sure we can look forward to a full year of speculating! Hopefully it’s about the search for Michael Fassbender’s huge wang, and Ice Cube shows up in a supporting role to say stuff like, “So exackly how big is diss snake?”
[scans via ShockTillYaDrop]