The Los Angeles Times has a new image from Ridley Scott’s hotly anticipated Alien prequel, Prometheus, a Photoshop-enhanced version of which reveals two towering space suits clearly belonging to the ‘Space Jockey’ race of extraterrestrial featured in Scott’s original Alien outing.
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| Original image (Los Angeles Times) |
How do we know they’re just space suits and not the ETs themselves? Because Scott says so. In an interview with Filmophilia (now removed from the website due to legal concerns), the director asks, rhetorically, “who is that, inside that [Space Jockey] suit? That wasn’t a skeleton, that was a suit. And if you open up the suit, what do you get inside it? And why were they going, where were they going?"
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| Enhanced image (ComingSoon.net) |
In the aforementioned LA Times piece, the writer of Prometheus, Damon Lindelof, says that the Ancient Astronaut-inspired movie is “definitely epic in its scope.”
“One of the filmmakers that we ended up talking about to a fair degree of redundancy was David Lean, who directed ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’” Lindelof said. “We wanted to make the movie feel big by having the characters be small in big spaces. That connected to the larger themes we were talking about — that we’re all just these little gnats crawling around on our little planet.”
Prometheus is released in June of this year.
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