December 23, 2011
Charlize Theron catches some rays in Prometheus 
The trailer for Prometheus is now online, and it sure looks like an Alien prequel, even if director Ridley Scott denies it -- but he is promising a "surprise."
Sci-fi fans are in full geek swoon over the trailer for the film, which is due out June 18, 2012 after many years of discussion and rumors.Prometheus is set some years before the events of Alien, Scott's 1979 film that started a masterful franchise and unveiled a monster for the ages.
Named for a reckless Greek god, and starring Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace and Guy Pearce, Prometheus certainly looks like part of the Alien series, even though Scott has lately been suggesting that it isn't.
There is the slow reveal of the title, the familiar giant horseshoe-shaped spacecraft, ominous egg-shaped pods -- and frantic screams as something very bad happens off camera.The trailer is tantalizingly obscure, but Scott dropped numerous details in a series of exclusive mini-interviews on Apple's web site, where the trailer debuted Thursday.
Here's everything he says, and it spells Alien prequel to us:
"So here we are. I'm back again.
"(Prometheus) is epic... not by just definition of the scale of sets, it's about the very grand ideas and notions, the surprising things (that) will appear to be small, yet will be enormous.
"I'm thrilled to be doing another science fiction. The cast find an establishment which is not what they expected it to be. What we find in it (are) dangerous elements that in a heartbeat are capable of eviscerating all of them.
"The surprise is in the story. It's all about everything. I come from the all-about-everything school. (There's) some good thinking, some great narrative, good dialogue and therefore terrific actors."
"So here we are. I'm back again.
"(Prometheus) is epic... not by just definition of the scale of sets, it's about the very grand ideas and notions, the surprising things (that) will appear to be small, yet will be enormous.
"I'm thrilled to be doing another science fiction. The cast find an establishment which is not what they expected it to be. What we find in it (are) dangerous elements that in a heartbeat are capable of eviscerating all of them.
"The surprise is in the story. It's all about everything. I come from the all-about-everything school. (There's) some good thinking, some great narrative, good dialogue and therefore terrific actors."
Peter Howell
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