Damon Lindelof Teases A Few Secrets Of ‘Prometheus’
By Russ Fischer/Sept. 28, 2011 2:30 pm EST
Damon Lindelof, brought on to the project by Ridley Scott and who ended up rewriting the Alien prequel script that Jon Spaihts had penned, is well versed in keeping secrets. But in a recent chat he gives up a few details about Prometheus that add to the recently-released synopsis and might answer a few questions you’ve had about the movie.MTV talked to the screenwriter, and you can see the chat below. But here are a few key points:Michael Fassbender plays an android, but not quite the established Alien franchise android. We suspected this after seeing some stills and the Comic Con footage, and the android nature of the character was confirmed during Comic Con. Being very slightly more specific Lindelof says,
Charlize Theron, as Meredith Vickers, is the corporate stooge in the film. But she’s not quite Burke, from Aliens.
Expect some of the cast to be killed off in a pattern that leaves you wondering who the last one standing will be.
That cast, by the way, also includes Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Ben Foster, Kate Dickie, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris, Benedict Wong, Rafe Spall, and Patrick Wilson.
I think the idea of building a really cool ensemble and again presenting the audience with like, ‘Who’s going to be left standing at the end of this movie? Maybe all of them. Probably not,’ [that’s] part of the fun of what we set out to do.
