Prometheus 2

Coming in 2014.

I guess "Prometheuses" wasn't a particularly great name.

Not sure how I feel. The main problem I had with the first was how obviously they were setting up a sequel and leaving information till then.

Michael Green, writer of Green Lantern or whatever.

Half of it will be answering questions. The other half will be giving us even more.

I did actually enjoy the answerless nature of the first film, it seemed like a throwback to cold war science fiction, like Phillip K Dick's writings where the book isa long realisation that you will never be able to achieve an understanding of your world. (But I still believe I've figured out Ubik)

Of course modern media is very tight on working continuity. We want everything to make sense and we hate plot holes. That's probably why the first film managed to go in a direction so many disliked.

But, I liked promethius and I'm looking forward to a sequel if it continues the Mountains Of Madness themes.

I'm still a bit annoyed by how dumb the scientists were. Like, the whole scene with the Engineer head was so dumb.

Very nice assessment. For all the first movie's plotting problems the lack of concrete answers never really struck me as one, or as a particularly relevant issue.

The head-canon which lets me get away with enjoying the movie is that they were a bunch of half-trained nobodies who wouldn't be missed if Weyland's scheme went south.

The new writer's CV doesn't exactly look stellar (I've never seen the Green Lantern movie but what I've heard doesn't inspire confidence), but who knows? Scott seems to have a lot of confidence in him.

What I'd really be curious about for a sequel is what they do with Shaw's faith arc. It seems like the kind of thing the first movie would seem to give a simple resolution to, only for a sequel to take things in an extremely dark direction, or at least give some interesting complication to the issue. (Incidentally, hadn't they planned on calling it Prometheus: Paradise or something?)

I liked the first one (mostly because of Noomi Rapace's and Michael Fassbender's performances), so I'd like to see this one.

I've heard that Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) is supposed to either return or survive. Can't see how that is possible, though.

Which means that they will have to solve some of the plot problems of the first one, otherwise the structure will disappear up its own ass.

edited 25th Mar '14 9:29:02 PM by Quag15

I am pleased by the concept of multiple Michael Fassbenders. Very pleased.

I'm curious how they're gonna handle a robot that's been reduced to a head

Perhaps he'll get a new body?

All the things I hated in the first movie died their well-earned deaths, so count me in.

I actually enjoyed the first prometheus, and am genuinely interested to what happened to the idiot who went to meet the murderous alien things.

Re: David and his lack-of-body.

Well, it isn't like Shaw recovered only his head. She took David's body with her, too. And even if she doesn't have an advanced degree in robotics, David is still conscious and could likely talk her through the repair procedures. The only major issue I'd think would be that hopefully they could find any necessary tools and materials for the repair on the Engineer ship they took off in.

Assuming they do find such things, I'm perfectly happy to start the next film with David's head reattached, perhaps with some android equivalent of scaring around his neck, and with a line of dialogue or two to lampshade the reattachment between films.

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2015/04/14/possible-prometheus-2-plot-leak-david-shaw-new-aliens-2857872?lt_source=external,manual

http://www.prometheus2-movie.com/news/exclusive-prometheus-2-plot-elements-potentially-leaked

So, it's not coming out in 2014?

You mean 2015. Yeah, probably not.

I enjoyed the first Prometheus movie and didn't really understand why a sizable portion of the audience loathed it. But now, I think I get it. This movie essentially undoes everything the 1979 classic stood for and replaces it with some sci-fi flight of fancy about the origin of humanity. Basically, Two Thousand One A Space Odyssey : Ridley Scott Edition. The message of the original was that space aint no idealistic "final frontier" for mankind and there's shit out there that none of our holy books and scientific knowledge accumulated thus far can prepare us for. It is distilled existential dread in movie form. Prometheus kept a little of that theme - particularly when the crew finally met a living Engineer for the first time - but it mostly tried haphazardly to make some kind of clever religious allegory which didn't go over so well.

edited 14th Oct '15 9:07:51 AM by nervmeister

Prometheus 2 is apparently being called Alien: Paradise Lost now. I'm actually looking forward to this movie, I enjoyed the first film and I'm interested in what this film will be like. I just can't take seriously that the film isn't being called Prometheus: Paradise Lost and is instead being called Alien: Paradise Lost.

Alien: Paradise Lost thread.

Fasspacked! Ahem.

I'd seen worse. Did find the stinger a bit much, but meh.

Space Jockeys had always been this thing that if you reveal them at all you kinda take all the fun out, so you just do your best. At least they're not elephant-faced psychic things this time, and the whole idea of "they made us but want to kill us and we have no idea why" is kinda neat. I think...

Ah well. Things could be worse.

So. How many characters in this movie will be graduates of Prometheus School of Running Away from Things?

I wouldn't have thought many of them survived graduation.

Why was this thread necro'd? This thread is redundant and needs to be locked.

edited 23rd Oct '15 2:56:35 PM by Zeromaeus

Gonna holler the mods, then. Thank you for noticing it.