January 28, 2012Many thanks for the very kind feedback. I love the idea of a movie poster. The new one is great. It shows just enough for you to wonder what the film is about, but it is perhaps the first in a series of posters. That's what I would do, the closer we get to the release date the more exciting the posters should get. That's not a new idea but it's a great way of keeping interest. I think Prometheus is going to be a game changer for the movie industry. It will show how a movie, the director, writers, artists, actors, engineers, developers, and most importantly the fans can make something special.
Prometheus is a carefully crafted production that I feel will address some of the disappointments of later films based in the Alien mythos. Sir Ridley Scott put so much effort and risk into Alien I bet he felt very frustrated with the directions it went into. I've got to say that Aliens was amazing. A different direction presented from another legendary director - James Cameron. Alien 3 was such a sad let down. IT was sad because of a bad script and a director (David Fincher? sorry - writing off the top of my head ;-) ) who at that time just had such a hard time with the accountants I seem to remember.
To name drop, I wrote to the great Fred Hole, the supervising Art director, he was brilliant and greatly missed. I spoke to him a few times and he was very helpful. Any case I meander. The point was I think the Hollywood bosses got nervous. It had too many writers on it and got chopped to bits. You realise that no one wants to make a crap movie, it's the fallout of problems in the main, rather than artistic miss-firing. Well I'll leave it there. ;-)
