Last month, Filmophilia ran an interview with Scott about the ALIEN prequel that has since been taken down, though this interesting excerpt has still been floating around:
“I think one of the reasons why I’ve never gone back to science-fiction, even though I’ve often noodled around, thought about it, looked for story, looked for material, is that there’s a nice purity to the original Alien. It’s fairly pure. And [PROMETHEUS] does actually raise all kinds of other questions, because if someone could, a being, could be as monstrously clever to create something like we experienced in the very first one — I always figured it’s a weapon, and I always figured that [the ship in the first ALIEN] was a carrier of weapons. Therefore, who is that, inside that suit? That wasn’t a skeleton, that was a suit. And if you open up the suit, what do you get inside it? And why were they going, where were they going?”
You can click to get a larger look of the official still above, but below we’ve got the Jockey suits focused on with the brightness turned up.
PROMETHEUS opens June 8th.
Synopsis: Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life’s ultimate mystery.
