Friday, September 30, 2011

Prometheus Profiles

Damon Lindelof talked to MTV about Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron's characters that are part of Ridley Scott's sorta-prequel to Alien called Prometheus and given us some basic breakdowns of each.


Theron's Meredith Vickers is "sort of a corporate entity… I feel like Charlize brought a new spin on that old variation. It's a remix …. I don't think she's slimy [think Burke (Paul Reiser) from Aliens“]. She's not the fast-talking, snake-oil face of the company."

He added one comment that immediately raises questions - "'What company is she a face of?' I think is a big part of the fun. As we were developing the script, she had some really cool ideas that made it not the suit you're used to."

Wonder if she's the franchise firm Weyland-Yutani?

Fassbender plays a robot character.- "One of the things that evokes the idea of Blade Runner is, 'What does the movie look like from the robot's point of view?' If you were to ask him, 'What do you think about all of this? What's going on? What do you think about these humans who are around you?,' wouldn't it be cool if we found a way for that robot to answer those questions. When you cast a guy like Fassbender,  going to bring a lot more to it."

Lindelof adds that part of the fun,, will be the who survives and becomes the 'hero' like the '79 pic - "I think the idea of building a really cool ensemble and again presenting the audience with like, ‘Who’s going to be left standing at the end of this movie? Maybe all of them. Probably not,-- part of the fun of what we set out to do."

Noomi Rapace Idris Elba Rafe Spall, Sean Harris, Logan Marshall-Green and Ben Foster Kate Dickie star. With Emun Elliott Patrick Wilson and Benedict Wong also in the cast as well.

Scott is said to have shot both an R rated and a PG-13 rated version of the script.

Lindelof worked with director Scott on the script, which was originally written by Jon Spaihts

The pic in post--has a June 8th, 2012. release date.

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