It was inevitable that someone from Fox would open up about that PROMETHEUS trailer leak, well that time has come. CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment Tom Rothman spoke out to MTV during the red carpet of the Gotham Independent Awards.
So what did the man have to say about it? “I heard some of it leaked, which wasn’t so good.” “That’s not fair. It’s heartbreakingly unfair, because … the quality of the visuals is as spectacularly beautiful, shot in 3-D compositionally the way only a master could do it.” “For some early, early, early, early half-baked, half-assed test to leak, it’s so unfair.” “I will promise you this: When that material is ready and it comes out, you should go see it in 3-D on a screen. It will deliver.”
Sounds pretty much what you would expect, they don’t want this stuff leaking but at the same time they do need to give us something. I hope he is right about the 3D aspect as well, would be nice to see this trailer in all of it’s glory. Rothman also commented about the PROMETHEUS/ALIEN connection: “I suppose if you want to definitionally be that literal, but it does it a great disservice. I will tell you, here’s the way to think about it. If you looked at the whole movie, 95 percent of it is entirely unto itself. Ridley said it right: If you’re a fan and you look closely, you’ll spot strands of DNA.” “I’ll tell you the great thing: It’s way bigger than that. The ideas are way bigger, way more original and — it’s a scary word — way more profound.”
Should we just call it a prequel? Whatever the case, as an added bonus, below you can check out some hi-res versions of the previously released ones from EW. All you have to do is click to enlarge!
Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life’s ultimate mystery.
Out June 8th of next year PROMETHEUS will star Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green and Patrick Wilson.