Finally, the trailer for Ridley Scott’s new movie Prometheus is out. Originally planned to be the prequel for Alien, one of the most famous Science Fiction movies ever, Prometheus was re-invented as an own film, and not as a pure Alien-prequel.
When the two main developers of the Prometheus-storyline, Ridely Scott and LOST-Writer Damon Lindelof, found out that with a lot of new and challenging ideas, they lost more and more the pure Alien-way, they decided to approach Prometheus as an individual and stand-alone movie event.
Nevertheless, when finally watching and analysing the Prometheus trailer released today, after weeks of footage and background stories on the new film, I can really find quite a lot of references to the visual world of Alien.
Here are some stills from the trailer to show how close Prometheus is to the look and feel of Alien – just to name a few: The stepwise fading in titles, the Giger look, the alien eggs, the thing on the helmet, the Ripley look of Noomi Rapace, the android-ish look of Michael Fassbender, the grand horse-shoe-formed spaceship we know as a wrackage from the first Alien movie, and – of course – the space jockey.
