There’s been a lot of online chatter lately about director Ridley Scott’s latest project, Prometheus. A supposed prequel to the awesome sci-fi classic Alien.
Not too long ago an “insider” on the project “leaked” a plot synopsis on the web and as you can imagine it spread like wildfire. I could almost believe that it’s real if it wasn’t for the spelling mistakes and the shit punctuation and grammar.
20th Century Fox worked pretty fast to try and quash the effect of this fake leak and released a short synopsis themselves. Here’s what they had to say:
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.”
Going on the completely opposite end of the spectrum to the leak, this is very vague but it should serve to whet the appetite of sci-fi film buffs. Along with the recent casting rumours linking names like Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba and Ben Foster to the film, the fan boys and girls will be salivating.
For anyone that’s interested in reading what our project “insider” had to say about the plot read below. It’s a bit too detailed and well, terrible, to be a plot synopsis in my opinion but to each their own.
“Earth. Year 2058.
Archaeological digs in Africa reveal alien artifacts that humans were genetically engineered by a advanced alien race (space jockeys). These “Alien Gods” also terraformed Earth in order to make it habitable for their human creations. Amongst finds are coordinates to the Alien God’s home-world, to Paradise. Months later the Weyland Corp launch the spaceship PROMETHEUS and his crew, into deep space to make first contact. Thanks to faster than light travel a few years later the PROMETHEUS enters the Zeta Riticuli star system. Humans are greeted by their makers, then transported further into space to a scary yet fascinating world. The Alien Gods are proud of their “children”, their first creation to reach such levels of intelligence.
As a reward they share bits of their astonishing bio-based technologies with the humans. But for one crew member of the Prometheus it’s not enough. In a treacherous act he steals the “bio-source code” to Terraforming, a technology at the origin of all Gods’ power, that could make humans equal to the gods. The Alien Gods may be scientists but are also ruthless conquerors, destroyers of worlds who will not accept humans as equals. They unleash on the escaping human crew their favorite bio-weapon, a creature used to “clean up” worlds before colonization. But something goes wrong in the process and humans manage to turn the bio-weapon against their makers. Giving birth to a smarter, nastier, bigger breed of gut eating creatures. Creatures that will be the demise of Paradise. What’s left of the Prometheus crew manages to escape the doomed planet.
On their trail a survivor Alien God in very familiar ship with one ultimate mission.
Bring the wrath of the Gods to Earth.”
