Sounds interesting!

Screenrant had some detail. It’s called prometheous, probably a reference to the modern prometheous, the other name for frankenstein

pretty sure Natalie portmana in it ridley Scott recently did an interview where he said he was influenced by the 60s chariots of the gods stuff rumors a plenty on the web
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/21057/has-the-prometheus-plot-been-spoiled

oh and its an ALIEN prequel

Thought Noomi Rapace got the part that Natalie Portman was up for.

Michael Fassbender is in it.

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Heh yeah – the Aliens prequel was Alien 🙂

From IMDB:

Status = filming

Main crew:
Ridley Scott – Director / Producer, Damon Lindelof – Writer (screenplay), Jon Spaihts – Writer (screenplay), David Giler – Producer, Walter Hill – Producer, Tony Scott – Producer, Dariusz Wolski – Cinematographer, Arthur Max – Production Designer, Pietro Scalia – Editor

Cast:
Michael Fassbender
Idris Elba …
Charlize Theron …
Noomi Rapace …
Guy Pearce
Logan Marshall-Green …
Kate Dickie
Rafe Spall
Sean Harris
Benedict Wong

Prod company – Brandywine
Distributor – 20th century fox

Due for release 1/6/12

Trivia
Gemma Arterton, Carey Mulligan, Olivia Wilde, Anne Hathaway, Abbie Cornish and Natalie Portman were considered for the main role.

James Franco was considered for a role.
For the role of Vickers, Charlize Theron and Angelina Jolie were considered. Theron got the role.
Was originally intended as a prequel to Ridley Scott’s Alien, but Scott decided to turn it into an original film with Noomi Rapace (who was already set to star in the prequel) still in the cast as one of five main characters. Some time later however, it was confirmed that the movie will take place in the same universe as Alien (1977), it will greatly reference that movie, but it will, for the bigger part, be an original movie and not a direct prequel.
Michelle Yeoh was rumored at one point for a role in the movie.

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so, not a prequel. If you want more detail i can tell you they are filming it using the red camera, mainly in the UK and Halon Entertainment are doing the sfx

I seemed to remember reading something a while back about a prequel. Possibly featuring the pilot from the crashed ship in the first film?

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/04/alien-prequel/

My understanding, from the hints I’ve read, is that the original intention was to do a film concentrating on the alien ‘pilot’ in the crashed ship that Nostromo found, and it’s link with the Aliens and their eggs, but the storyline diverged into a whole new area which is pretty dark, even by Alien standards. Nobody’s really letting on what the story’s about, but with Ridley and Tony on board, and with Ridley’s aversion to doing sequels and covering old ground, I think this is going to be a very interesting film, and I’m really looking forward to it. I have fond memories of taking my girlfriend to see Alien when it first came out; she spent most of the time with her hands over her eyes, and a good excuse for a cuddle. I loved it. 😀

my worry is that great directors don’t age well Lucas raped my childhood is an unpleasant but oft used phrase in certain parts of the web
Cameron went from aliens and terminator to titanic and avatar coppola made godfather 3! Jackson king kong , kubrik did eyes wide shut …… the list goes on I really hope ridley can pull a masterpiece out of the bag I’m just a very apprehensive. AvP has diluted the franchise considerably and studios want crowdpleasing blandoramma, I’m sure the first idea for this was set entirely in the spacejockey universe with no humans at all

pretty dark, even by Alien standards

Nice. 8)

Charlize Theron… Yum

Will someone finally nuke them from orbit?

Prometheus

I hope it’s got Alf and ET in it.

And Gilbert

And Roger.

And Gilbert.

On a serious note, what’s the deal with the ‘space jockey’ or the alien pilot? I’ve heard it mentioned a few times but must have missed it it the filum

As CountZero said. They find a giant corpse in the first film, sitting at a phallic looking telescope or gun or something.

The storyline leaked last week is something like:

Archeologists find alien artefacts in Africa, these suggest Earth was terraformed by an alien race and humans were genetically engineered to populate it – the artefacts include coordinates for a homeworld – big corporation sends ship to alien homeworld – aliens are delighted their science project has become intelligent and resourceful – all is going well until one human steals terraforming technology – humans try to leave, aliens send their other pet project, the nasty aliens of all the other films, after the humans – carnage ensues.

All rumours so far though.

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.

Sounds good 🙂

that storyline has been dismissed as way-off by ridley

Interesting! not heard about this.