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SDCC'11: Charlize Theron Talks Prometheus, Plus Footage Description
Some nice updates from SDCC on Ridley Scott's highly anticipated sci-fi flick. Theron reveals she is affiliated with a company who's name you will surely recognize, and we also have the description of the footage that was screened..
Remember all that stuff about Ridley Scott's Prometheus NOT being a prequel to Alien? Well just forget the ____ out of that. The misdirection may have been to throw fans off the scent of to ensure people didn't get the impression that it was a direct prologue, but rest assured Scott's new project is firmly set in the same universe as Alien.
The Prometheus panel is in full flow at SDCC right now and we have some very interesting updates for you. First up The Playlist have posted some quotes from one of the movie's stars Charlize Theron. She reveals that her character runs Weyland-Yutani, the "company" present throughout the Alien saga..
”...she is really the suit, she’s the one that runs the company,” Theron said about her role in the film and how it was developed. “Ridley always kind of grounds it and brings it back to reality. I watch the Trump family for instance and I don’t really know much about it but I know Ivana is running that ship. I don’t ever set out to play a character with strength. I kind of find the circumstance. It was once we found the world and what we wanted to explore with her that we kind of found [the character].”
Also, footage was just screened. And Bleeding Cool posted their description..
Starting with a montage of clips from Ridley Scott’s previous films, including Alien, the video package soon went into a mixture of interview clips with Scott and shots from the film. The interview pieces were telling us that this isn’t really an Alien prequel, that the only connection is this oft-discussed Alien DNA.
On the other hand, the footage confirmed completely that this is an Alien film. The production design was familiar and, not to put too fine a point on it, there were glimpses of bits and pieces of the alien biology we recognise. Something like a full size humanoid alien was seen in the burn of a flamethrower, tail and all, and if you were looking in the right place, you could see something like the alien eggs.
Michael Fassbender’s character does look like the Android characters from the previous alien films but in one shot, we see him cry; in another, he appears to prick his finger and draw blood.
Scott is currently on screen via link-up to Iceland and has confirmed that “there may be two” robots in the cast of Prometheus.
As Lindelof has noted on stage, there is a shot in the clip that appears to show a naked Charlize Theron doing press-ups. There’s also another of Noomi Rapace dropping to the floor in a smilier pose – but she’s allowed the dignity of wearing something a bit like Leeloo’s bandage outfit from The Fifth Element.
There are several shots in the footage which appear to show characters meeting sticky ends, including some of the big name stars, but I wouldn’t want to spoil that.
