Comic-Con: The First Panel "Prometheus" By Ridley Scott Fox

Comic-Con: The First Panel "Prometheus" By Ridley Scott Fox

SAN DIEGO - By far the largest panels H room today in terms of progress was to be released by 20th Century Fox, and rushed to ensure that people have had this when they came to Damon Lindelof, the moderator panel, left to talk about the new film "Prometheus."

He thanked all those present to elect Fox panel of "Game of Thrones" panel held at the same time, then teased us a bit by suggesting that he might be able to produce a true knight to speak with us .
"I was driving in my car a year ago and the phone rang and someone said," Ridley Scott to call you in five minutes. Is it available? So after my car crashed and dealing with consequences of this, Ridley Scott called me and told me to send a script and wanted to know what I think of it. I read the script, then the question was "Is an Alien prequel? This was the beginning of a process that had to sit at the table from him and really get to work with this guy whose work has inspired me both the first place. "It's really an ideal situation, Lindelof and enthusiasm for all that have come to build together was palpable when he presented the first images of the film.

Clip art started in most previous work by Ridley Scott, all chopped and mixed together, I remember convincing than Scott has tried throughout his career. Finally, she moved to the new material, and the first thing that struck me was how it looked familiar. Not bad, but in the sense that it feels like the world of doubt '"Alien" to life. One of the complaints I have of "Star Wars" prequel is the level design is that it's hard to imagine that the great, the perfect prequel to the world of film before the tooth in the dirty world of the original trilogy. Here, however, I can see how the world, "Prometheus" for the synchronization of the world '"Alien" at some later time.
Using both backstage and real images of the coil image preview of the film suggests that it is a film about the origins of mankind on earth and our first encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence significantly different from ours. It sounds scary, exciting and bizarre, and I can not think of anything I want from a new film Ridley Scott science fiction, more than that. HR Giger influence all clearly labeled, we have seen, one with what looked like egg tube embedded in the floor around a giant statue of a face. We quickly gained insight Charlize Theron nude do push-ups, someone Noomi Rapace lighting the fire with a flamethrower, a blonde, short hair, Michael Fassbender and cry a single tear milky Android, and much more. We were shown the sets they built in Pinewood studios, including those who have taken over the entire 007 steps, and it seems to be a massive accumulation of Physics.

At the end of the shoot, Charlize Theron was released to join Lindelof on stage and they talked about how she ended up involved in the film. "For all players, only Big One, the one you really want to work with and for me it was Ridley Scott. I came to know him socially, and I knew he did. I had to be shipped to the "Mad Max", though, so I do not think there's any way this would happen. Thus, the film was pushed and I was in Malaysia and got this shot Phone Ridley, who said: Do not 'you want to come do this? "And I was like," Of course I want to come and do that. "And when I read the script first time, was not quite at its full potential, but to work with you and Ridley, I think what we proposed was very exciting. "

Lindelof talked about how Ridley Scott was the thing that got me the part, and what are the opportunities it represents, and then added: "It 'a shot goes naked push-ups for this material, and I found disgusting and indulge, and if we have to go see the movie, totally worked. "Then she asked him to describe his character is a movie, Meredith Vickers.

"It's unlike anything I've done. It is an example. She leads the company with this mission in space. It is very cold and icy at first, and it is the economy in the first place. She believe in anything, and she runs a tight ship. What I loved working with Ridley is that we all layers of character, and you do not know who she really is, but Ridley was the interesting thing, where he had hidden in the corners and things and it really makes you question who you are and what they do. And the third act of his band's all I can see what it really is. "

It is difficult to talk about a film like this when the film is still in production, and even more difficult when the director is not in the room. In this case, Ridley Scott is still filming in Iceland, and to show how far it is, they used a series of maps on H hall displays that show where he is.
Charlize is not true that they have, though. "I just came back on Monday. We were shooting in Hella, who is also the name. But he was not here ... it's shit. Ridley should have been here. And 'the only helicopter flight out of seven. He should be here. I would not say if he heard me, but ... wait, maybe it's here. Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Ridley Scott. "

On the big screen, suddenly a satellite feed kicks and we watched Ridley Scott on the edge of a volcanic crater in Iceland. He smiled and said, ". I feel like David Attenborough, as I am about to launch a game my last day of shooting to compete with our first scene of the film. "
Damon said that 25 years ago since the last SF film he did, and asked why it is so long that it has worked in the genre.
"I was too busy doing other films and other genres," said Ridley. "I never started thinking until I realized there was something in the first" Alien "that no one has asked, and harassed I. I realized there was something we could explore. None of the other movies that use either. And so I wanted to play with the DNA of 'Alien' a bit. We were a very different direction to the film, but in the final minutes of the film, see what I mean. "
"I hope so."
"So I do and the fact of Fox."
I was not ready Ridley shooting digital 3D film, even if I double-checked and it was announced. I think I'm so used to thinking of him as an old school, movie buff, it does not look like something he would be interested in. I was surprised, however, when he and Damon talked about the process and build virtually anything in this practice, the age of digital wonders.

"3D is beautiful to use. I started as an operator, so I knew immediately that it's really Lensing and the right lens to do the work in 3D. I have been helped Darius (Khondji) and his team. Now I done, I will never work without a 3D re-, although the small dialogue scenes. It opens up the whole universe. Trumball Doug once told me: "if you can make it live, do it live." It 'was 28 years ago, and although we have a great digital functionality, I would still say it live. "
Damon asked: "Are you a Replicant, and if not, why did you leave my shit origami chair all the time?"
Ridley is back: "I thought the robot, really."
As we all laughed, Damon continued, "Speaking of which, it is news that the robot in this movie."
Ridley considered his answer for a moment, then smiled. "There are maybe two. The thing is, robots and androids and replicants have become so part of the landscape they are not unique, so the challenge is coming up with unique ideas that makes something fresh. I have been a better time with this film that I for many years and I want to do next. This is why I rub you glide. The cast I worked with that were as good a time as I can remember. "
Asked about the cast, Ridley's gesture to the camera on its rear end to a general level, revealing "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" star Naomi Raptor a few feet away. "I saw a movie about ten months and then returned to see and I saw him again. And honestly, I think" The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo "is ... is something very special. I kept thinking that Raptor is Naomi? Charlize and there, and Michael Fassbender, and someone who was happy to work with Guy Pearce. "
Speaking Raptor, Lindelof said: "This is a physically demanding role for you."

Raptor appears to be impeccable English, and she rose to reply. "Well, I just returned from space two days ago. It feels strange to return to Earth again. We were there for many days. Long days and hard days, physically and emotionally. It was the best trip ever, thanks to this man . My respect for him has grown steadily every day, and I was coming home late, but smiling. When we go into this, I forgot everything else, and wants to discover something. I'm crushed. I see myself as today sucks. I have cuts and bruises and scars. "
Finally, Damon had a question, it seems appropriate, because the original "Alien" is unrepentant R films for adults. "If I were in this audience, I ask you, is a PG-13 will keep you from telling a story to tell?"
"No, not at all. I have a responsibility to my studio and Mr. Rothman, but I always make sure we have all the options and we will examine the two versions together to decide what we can do. "In other words, n 'there is no decision yet, and Ridley has covered his ass by the firing of an option more and more gentle for the whole scene where he can be a problem.
With this, they wrapped the "Prometheus", and that the band left the stage.

Lindelof talking about moving to Los Angeles in 94 and read many scripts at the time. One in particular that jumped out at him was "The Truman Show" and spoke of how he was impressed by how wonderful the movie is based was created by the author. With that, he introduced the writer / director Andrew Niccol, who joined him on stage. I think it's interesting that Niccol has not seen his new film as science fiction, and I agree. I think he writes in the pure metaphor, using his big ideas to discuss some very basic and fundamental things. He referred to his new film, "In Time" as "a child of" Gattaca ". This is another film about the effects of genetic manipulation in a society, even if it is a rather extreme version of the idea.
In "In Time", the good news is that you stop aging at age 25. The bad news is that when you only have one year to live, and if time itself has become the main currency of the time. People use their minutes and seconds on the things they live, and they scramble to find ways to earn minutes and hours. He tells how an invention that would be the death of invention and progress and how the film is a parable of a history of hard science fiction.
Damon asked about casting a film like this, and Niccol said. "I was looking for both new souls and old souls when we have people who are 25 to 105 years and we needed to show that I had to find a player in 75 years, carried in a person of 25 years His body, for example. "
With this, we were shown a series of clips from the movie, and I say: it looks slick. It is a premise hard to swallow, and the idea that the mortality rate for the digital control arm is not rational. But if you make a jump, it's basically an action movie, with literally a ticking clock. You can watch movies you here.
After Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried in the film to discuss how to talk and Timberlake "Gattaca" is a movie he loved. He also mentioned how films like "The Fugitive" and "Die Hard" and "First Blood" was his favorite type of action movies, movies about the ordinary man thrown into extraordinary circumstances. This is a fair comparison with it. Timberlake character, a hustler who is constantly trying to get more time for himself, ends with a century in time a dead man on her arm and no explanation. He kidnaps the daughter (Seyfried) of a rich man and its use as a buffer, as he tries to find out what's going on.
Seyfried discussed how the film was basically running in her high heels and led to a discussion of how fun it is to shoot weapons, something that Timberlake agreed. They also mentioned that Cillian Murphy is in the movie, when Tommy Lee Jones "The Fugitive" character, the guy chasing Timberlake, who can really believe in his innocence. Finally, Justin Timberlake explained how strange it is to have Olivia Wilde, who is three years younger than him, plays his mother in the film.
As they left the stage, everything went dark and we saw what looked like a bunch of kids to play YouTube videos with chimpanzees in Africa and the way he walks. They hand is an automatic rifle, and when you discover how the gun fire, disperse, only to chimpanzees, triumphant, arms raised above his head.
This, again Lindelof on stage with director Rupert Wyatt to discuss the "Rise Of The Planet of the Apes" and spoke of the importance of technological advances in capture performance in recent years is the idea of ​​this film.

After Wyatt discussed the idea that Andy Serkis is the first major action movie star to capture the moment, Serkis was brought on stage to talk about how he played Caesar, and the clip of them were impressive, a sequence in which Caesar was only the father of Alzheimer's disease successfully James Franco's character, played by John Lithgow. Lithgow is having a bad day and not know where he is, walks in the garden when a neighbor left a car parked at the curb with the doors open while running in a moment. Between Lithgow and speed of delivery, immediately crashed into the cars ahead and behind where we parked. The neighbor, not knowing what is going on, runs out and starts screaming in Lithgow, the drag of the car and bit him several times, and when Caesar saw that locks into place.
Break the house and attack guys chasing him down the street and beat him holy, which led him to bite the boy's fingers almost completely. In the final moments, the police arrived, Caesar went to Lithgow, both for comfort and be comforted, and he put his head on his shoulder Lithgow in a burst of unexpected tenderness, no real soul behind those eyes digital. It's amazing together, both emotionally and technically.
The next clip showed was basically the birth of the revolution, when Caesar decided to intensify the development of all other monkeys, which is in captivity. That explodes, flies chemistry has accelerated its development, and when she unleashes others. The next day, each of the other great apes to wake up, there is a moment of silence, as evidenced each looking in his eyes and sees the intelligence hidden charges there. Again ... overall performance. It only works if you understand what they think, and Wyatt seems to have started.

Serkis explained how the technology is a tool to help players take on new roles, not a replacement for the players, something I've said many times. I've heard players complain about the idea of ​​motion capture, but only because they are threatened by it and do not understand how the key players still in the process. The last clip they showed us was just a selection of photos from the chaos third act of the film, and it's a good thing. But what will ultimately make this work (or does not) is simply the strength of character and history, and it is true, no matter how much technology they throw on something.
All in all, Fox has been impressive, and confident the panel, and Lindelof manages to slow her role as well. I'll take you to other panels and more today, all night, and we are here for Comic-Con on Sunday, so there is much more to come.
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes," will open August 5, 2011.
"In Time" 28 OKT open the 2011 e
"Prometheus" opens June 8, 2012.