letztens nen interview mit scott, lindelof (screenwriter) und fassbender auf collider gelesen
da meint lindelof:
"This word “prequel” was on the table. It was the elephant in the room and had to be discussed. When I had first heard that Ridley was going to direct an Alien prequel, and then six months later my phone rang and the voice on the other end said, “Are you available to talk to Ridley Scott?,” and then I crashed into a telephone pole, I answered the call and Ridley was like, “Hey, man, I’m going to send you a script tonight.” And, he doesn’t know he’s Ridley Scott. So, I read this thing and we had a meeting, and he was already very clearly saying, “I want to come back to this genre. I want to do sci-fi again. I feel like this movie is just a little bit too close to Alien. I’ve done this stuff before. But, there are big ideas in it that are unique, in and of themselves. Is there a way to do that?” I said, “I think that that’s what we have to do.” If there were a sequel to this movie, it would not be Alien. Normally, that’s the definition of a prequel. It precedes the other movies. The Star Wars prequels are going to end with Darth Vader going, “Noooo!,” unfortunately. There’s an inevitability, in watching a prequel, where you’re like, “Okay, if the ending of this movie is just going to be the room that John Hurt walks into, that’s full of eggs, there’s nothing interesting in that because we know where it’s going to end. With really good stories, you don’t know where it’s going to end. So, this movie, hopefully, will contextualize the original Alien, so that when you watch it again, maybe you know a little bit more. But, you don’t fuck around with that movie. It has to stand on its own. It’s a classic. If we’re fortunate enough to do a sequel to Prometheus, it will tangentialize even further away from the original Alien. When you go to the concert that is this movie, you want the Stones to play “Satisfaction.” There is this sense of us saying, “We want you to do something new, Ridley, but just give us a little bit of space jockey. Just play it! Even in the encore.” And, I think Ridley has given us the movie that I think we all want to see."
deshalb kam ich auch bisschen ins stocken was den direkten bezug zu alien angeht. wahrscheinlich ist es so, das prometheus schon von anfang an auf eine prequel trilogie ausgelegt wurde, so wie Jay das auch sagte.
ich habe vertrauen in das script und die timeline, die sich scott ausgedacht hat. deshlab sehe ich keine großen probleme mit dem film, auch wenn er etwas neben der alien spur fahren sollte.
ich kann mir aber auch vorstellen, dass mit den teils widersprüchlichen aussagen eine marketingstrategie verfolgt wird.
Aber bei vielen Filmen mache ich es auch so, dass ich mir keine (oder kaum) Bilder, Trailer usw. ansehe. Beim TDKR habe ich nur den kleinen Trailer gesehen und weiß gar nicht so recht, worum es diesmal geht (außer Bane und Catwoman). Beim TDK habe ich mir damals überhaupt keine Bilder, keine Trailer, keine Spoiler angesehen.
