Ridley Scott shares insight on Guy Pearce's "Prometheus" roleFebruary 27, 2012 - 16:30 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Director Ridley Scott has shared a few tidbits on Guy Pearce's role in "Prometheus". Despite the fact that the filmmaker always insists that the upcoming space thriller is not related to "Alien", he admitted that Pearce's character is a direct connection to the 1979 phenomenal movie, Aceshowbiz reported. In an interview with Hungarian's FilmSite, the English filmmaker explained the background of Pearce's role in the upcoming film. He said, as translated by Alien Prequel News, "When the first “Alien” movie and “Blade Runner” were made, I thought that in the near future the world will be owned by large companies." "This is why we have the Tyrell Corporation in “Blade Runner” and Weyland-Yutani in “Alien”. They sent the Nostromo spaceship," Scott continued before adding, "The “Prometheus” is owned by an entrepreneur called Peter Weyland, and is played by Guy Pearce." The 74-year-old director then claimed that Pearce's Weyland is "the connection between the two films, and nothing more." He went on stating, "Prometheus is a new film, a new world, and is full of new ideas. And of course new monsters as well." "Prometheus" was initally designed as a prequel to "Alien". However, the plot evolved to a more stand-alone mythology. In an interview with Filmophilia back in December, Scott insisted that he will not relate his anticipated movie to the 1979 thriller "at all." "I mean, you could actually say, and there's a quote I did, a pretty good quote: By the end of the third act you start to realize there's a DNA of the very first alien, but none of the subsequent aliens," he insisted. "To tell you what that is a pity, and I'm not going to tell you, because it's actually good, pretty organic to the process and to the original. But we go back, we don't go forward." The much awaited thriller will be released in the U.S. on June 8. Joining Pearce in the cast ensemble are the likes of Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender, Ben Foster, Charlize Theron and Idris Elba. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Scholz hopes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty will be signed this year German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed this year. Ucom equips four bus stops in Ijevan with free Wi-Fi Ucom now provides free Wi-Fi coverage in smart bus stops in four communities of Ijevan. Armenia, Russia discuss life extension of Metsamor nuclear plant Issues regarding the extension of life of the 2nd power unit of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant were discussed in Yerevan. Armenians stage more campaigns against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan Protesters blocked more roads across Armenia on Friday, April 26 in continuing attempts to scuttle territorial concessions to Azerbaijan. |