WonderCon is happening right now; Ridley Scott and the casting of his new upcoming semi-prequel ‘Alien’ movie is being promoted like there’s no tomorrow.
Before getting into the details, I’ve added the Prometheus full theatrical trailer below.
If you want more, here’s the UK trailer, with more details about the story
After the jump there is more info and details about Ridley Scott’s Prometheus
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Ridley Scott‘s epic upcoming sci-fi return ‘Prometheus’ has a new international trailer. However, it looks pretty much like the original trailer, not new footage, but still cool editing and some minor changes to the pacing.
Here is the trailer embedded below:
The movie is one of my most anticipated movies of the year, it looks great and we will finally see what Ridley Scott is capable of in a new format (just like Martin Scorsese with ‘Hugo’).
Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Sean Harris, Idris Elba, Kate Dickie, Logan Marshall-Gree, Rafe Spall, Patrick Wilson and Guy Pearce.
It is set for release this June 8th, 2012.
UPDATE: Seems like the producer has a different take on this rumor, which is, it’s fake. Original post is still below.
ORIGINAL REPORT: Straight from the ‘take it with a grain of salt‘ department, TwitchFilm is reporting that Harrison Ford is in early talks to participate in the Ridley Scott’s cult classic Blade Runner sequel/remake.
We already documented this some months ago about a report that Ridley Scott is going to revisit one of his most beloved films. We are not sure if he will be directing or producing, but it seems that he will be involved in some way.
So if Harrison Ford is returning to play his Rick Deckard character, this means that the previous plan about the film being a fresh remake can be tossed away, and now the project will be a direct sequel to the original, that is IF Harrison Ford joins the project.
The film is still under pre-production and according to a LA Times interview from August 2011, the producer Andrew Kosove is estimating that the shooting will begin early 2013. So if everything goes by the plan, we’ll see a release for 2014/2015. It all depends if the movie doesn’t fall on production hell, which is very common in Hollywood…
Stay tuned for more developing stories regarding this remake/sequel (whatever it turns out to be).
The crazy new movie remake of the day comes from Deadline.
Apparently, there has been a new Blade Runner movie under preparations since March, when Warner Bros decided to repurchase the rights to the classic cult movie ‘Blade Runner’ directed by Ridley Scott in 1982.
The thing is, it’s astonishing that Warner Bros is willing to accept Ridley Scott again as a director after the clash between these two when making the first version. Blade Runner is a film that suffered a lot of studio’s executives intervention, to the point that Ridley Scott disowned the movie until he was allowed to recut his own version several years later.
We don’t know if this movie is going to be a sequel, a prequel or a remake, nothing is set in stone. Nor we know if Harrison Ford will have any involvement in this production, but what we are certain is that this movie will be filmed in 3D after the comments made by Scott at the latest Comic-Con while shooting Alien prequel-ish ‘Prometheus’.
You can read the press release after the break
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The long awaited sci-fi comeback of Ridley Scott is being introduced at the public of Comic-Con right now. Apparently they are showing some footage there, but for now we’ll have to conform ourselves with this new picture released by 20th Century Fox.
This movie is pretty interesting since it was meant to be a prequel to the Alien franchise. At first, it was going to be directed by Carl Erik Rinsch and produced by Ridley Scott and his brother Tony. But Fox pressured Ridley Scott to direct it, so he did.
Eventually through pre-production, the team decided that the mythology evolved into something so different that they downplayed the prequel thing.
At Comic-con, Ridley Scott appeared via satellite from Iceland and said these things about the movie:
3D has been a wonderful exercise but I was brought up as a camera operator so its really about lensing and all that kind of stuff. So with the help I’ve had from a wonderful cameraman and his technical team its been, for me, a pretty straight forward ride. That said I’ll never work without 3D again, even for small dialogue scenes. I love the whole process. 3D opens up the universe of even a small dialogue scene so I’ve been very impressed with that.
Scott has already mentioned before that 3D was looking fantastic after seeing the first footage of the then in production James Cameron’s Avatar. It’s reassuring that he loved working on this new format.
Prometheus cast includes Noomi Rapace as Elizabeth Shaw, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender as David, an android, Guy Pearce, Ben Foster, Kate Dickie, Logan Marshall-Green as Holloway, Elizabeth’s love interest and Sean Harris.
It is set to be released on June 8, 2012.
