*Ridley Scott's Prometheus - NEW HD Trailers p23 & p24*

Herbi wrote:Watched it last night, thought it was decent enough if a little slow. Was it me or did Theron's character serve literally no purpose in the film.

emilythestrange wrote:A few other questions (but serious ones that I know someone can answer) edit: don't think it helps that I'm only coming round to this a month or so after seeing the film

What/where was the weapons facility? I've seen this mentioned a couple of times and I completely missed it in the film.
And what was the meaning of the section before the film starts, where one of the engineers is by a waterfall and drinks something and falls apart?

Drunken_Master wrote:

emilythestrange wrote:A few other questions (but serious ones that I know someone can answer) edit: don't think it helps that I'm only coming round to this a month or so after seeing the film

What/where was the weapons facility? I've seen this mentioned a couple of times and I completely missed it in the film.
And what was the meaning of the section before the film starts, where one of the engineers is by a waterfall and drinks something and falls apart?

The moon they land on was the weapons facility. The black goo was a biological weapon. What happens is, the 'engineers' find habitable worlds, release the goo which destroys everything on the planet and spawns new life.

TheTurnipKing wrote:It's certainly possible that the Engineers specifically showed them that group of stars. I still consider it far more likely that humanity just picked it up for themselves off of something it was supposed to have seen. Like the titular Prometheus stealing fire from the gods.

Do we really need to keep spoilering everything at this point? I mean, I don't mind if it's for the sake o someone, but haven't we all seen it now?

Directed by Ridley Scott, the sci-fi blockbuster was conceived as a sort of prequel to Scott's 1979 classic Alien. Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace starred as members of a spaceship crew attempting to prevent the extinction of the human race.

Released in June (2012), Prometheus has grossed $303 million (£195 million) worldwide from a $130 million (£83 million) budget. Industry commentators considered this a respectable total, but not enough to make a sequel a foregone conclusion.

However, Fox's president of production Emma Watts has now told The Hollywood Reporter that Scott and the studio are plotting a follow-up for a 2014 or 2015 release. "Ridley is incredibly excited about the movie, but we have to get it right. We can't rush it," she added.

Fassbender and Rapace are already contracted for a second film. However, Fox and Scott are holding talks with new writers because Damon Lindelof, who co-scripted Prometheus with Jon Spaihts, may not be available to pen a sequel. Lindelof has several projects ongoing either as screenwriter or producer, including the untitled Star Trek sequel and World War Z, a zombie movie starring Brad Pitt.

Jax wrote:Nah m8, this gooseberry fool be all epic-style an that. So it'd be Prometheus II.

Frank wrote:It'll probably be something else equally mythical. I'm calling Epimetheus.

TheTurnipKing wrote:It's certainly possible that the Engineers specifically showed them that group of stars. I still consider it far more likely that humanity just picked it up for themselves off of something it was supposed to have seen. Like the titular Prometheus stealing fire from the gods.

Do we really need to keep spoilering everything at this point? I mean, I don't mind if it's for the sake o someone, but haven't we all seen it now?