Genre:
Science-Fiction
Directed by:
Ridley Scott
Starring:
Noomi Rapace,
Michael Fassbender,
Guy Pearce
Release date:
Fri 08, Jun 2012
Budget $130 million
Box office $378.54 million
Prometheus is a 2012 science
fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, and written by Jon Spaihts and Damon
Lindelof. The film stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris
Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Charlize Theron. The story is set in the late
21st century, and centers on the crew of the spaceship Prometheus as they
follow a star map discovered among the remnants of several ancient Earth
cultures. The crew, seeking the origins of humanity, arrive on a distant world
and discover an advanced civilization, and a threat that could cause the
extinction of the human race.
Development of the film began in
the early 2000s as a fifth installment in the Alien franchise. Scott and
director James Cameron developed ideas for a film that would serve as a prequel
to Scott's 1979 science fiction horror film Alien. By 2003, the development of
Alien vs. Predator took precedence, and the project remained dormant until 2009
when Scott again showed interest. Spaihts wrote a script for a prequel to the
events of the Alien films, but Scott opted for a different direction to avoid
repeating cues from those films. In late 2010, Lindelof joined the project to
rewrite Spaihts's script, and he and Scott developed a story that precedes the
story of Alien but is not directly connected to that franchise. According to
Scott, although the film shares "strands of Alien's DNA, so to
speak", and takes place in the same universe, Prometheus explores its own
mythology and ideas.
Prometheus entered production in
April 2010, with extensive design phases during which the technology and
creatures which the film required were developed. Principal photography began
in March 2011, with an estimated US$120–130 million budget. The project was
shot using 3D cameras throughout, almost entirely on practical sets, and on
location in England, Iceland, Spain, and Scotland. It was promoted with a
marketing campaign that included viral activities on the web. Three videos
featuring the film's leading actors in character, which expanded on elements of
the fictional universe, were released and met with a generally positive
reception. Prometheus was released on June 1, 2012 in the United Kingdom and on
June 8, 2012 in North America.
Plot
As a hovering spacecraft departs a
planet, a humanoid alien drinks a dark bubbling liquid, then starts to
disintegrate. The alien's bodily remains cascade into a waterfall. His DNA
triggers a biogenetic reaction.
In 2089, archaeologists Elizabeth
Shaw and Charlie Holloway discover a star map in Scotland that matches others from
several unconnected ancient cultures. They interpret this as an invitation from
humanity's forerunners, the "Engineers". Peter Weyland, the elderly
CEO of Weyland Corporation, funds the creation of the scientific vessel, called
Prometheus, to follow the map to the distant moon LV-223. The ship's crew
travels in stasis while the android David monitors their voyage. Arriving in
2093, they are informed of their mission to find the Engineers. Mission
director Meredith Vickers orders the crew to avoid making contact without her
permission.
The Prometheus lands near a large
artificial structure, which a team explores. Inside they find numerous stone
cylinders, a monolithic statue of a humanoid head, and the corpse of a large
alien, thought to be an Engineer. They find other bodies and presume the
species is extinct. David secretly takes a cylinder, while the remaining
cylinders begin leaking a dark liquid, which comes in contact with the
worm-like life forms on the ground. A rapidly approaching storm forces the crew
to return to Prometheus, leaving members Millburn and Fifield stranded in the
structure. In the ship, the Engineer's DNA is found to match that of humans.
Meanwhile, David investigates the cylinder and discovers a dark liquid. He then
taints a drink with the substance and gives it to an unaware Holloway. Shortly
after, Shaw and Holloway have sex.
Inside the structure, a snake-like
creature kills Millburn, and sprays a corrosive fluid that melts Fifield's
helmet, exposing him to the leaking dark liquid. The crew later returns to the
structure and finds Millburn's corpse. David separately discovers a control
room containing a surviving Engineer in stasis, and a star map highlighting
Earth. Holloway's ingestion of the dark liquid leads to an infection that
rapidly ravages his body. He is rushed back to Prometheus, but Vickers refuses
to let him aboard, and at his urging, burns him to death with a flamethrower.
Later, a medical scan reveals that Shaw, despite being sterile, is pregnant
with an alien offspring. Shaw uses an automated surgery table to extract and
subdue the squid-like creature. Weyland has been in stasis aboard Prometheus,
and explains to Shaw he wants to ask the Engineers to prevent his death from
old age. As Weyland prepares to leave for the structure, Vickers addresses him
as "Father".
Fifield, who has been mutated by
the dark liquid, attacks the hangar bay and kills several crew members before
he is killed. The Prometheus's captain, Janek, speculates that the structure
was part of an Engineer military base that lost control of a virulent
biological weapon, the dark liquid. He also determines that the underground
structure is in fact a spacecraft. Weyland and a team return to the structure,
and awaken the Engineer. David speaks to the Engineer, who responds by
decapitating him and killing Weyland and his team. Shaw escapes the spacecraft
as the Engineer activates it. She warns Janek that the Engineer is planning to
release the liquid on Earth and convinces Janek to stop the spacecraft. Janek collides
the Prometheus with the craft, but before the collision Vickers escapes via a
lifeboat and an escape pod. The Engineer's disabled spacecraft crashes onto the
planet; its wreckage crushes Vickers. Shaw goes to the lifeboat and finds that
her alien offspring is still alive, and has grown to gigantic size. David's
still-active head warns Shaw over the intercom that the Engineer has survived
the crash. The Engineer forces open the lifeboat's airlock and attacks Shaw,
who releases her alien offspring onto the Engineer; it thrusts a tentacle down
the Engineer's throat, subduing him. Shaw recovers David's remains, and with
his help, they launch another Engineer spacecraft. She intends to reach the
Engineers' homeworld in an attempt to understand why they wanted to destroy
humanity.
In the lifeboat, a large alien
creature bursts out of the Engineer's chest.
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References.
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