Space Jockeys and Noomi Rapace in a New 'Prometheus' Still

Monday, 16 January 2012 11:20 Written by Jordan DeSaulnier

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Space Jockeys and Noomi Rapace in a New 'Prometheus' Still

Straight talk from the Straight Talk Highway: Prometheus is at least a little bit of a prequel to Alien, in that explores the mysteries of the big dead Space Jockey and the derelict spacecraft where the crew of the Nostromo encountered the xenomorph eggs in Ridley Scott's 1979 classic. We know this based on many things, including the teaser trailer and a new image that shows star Noomi Rapace in yet another exceedingly H.R. Giger-esque setting that includes not one, but two Space Jockeys making like sentries or maybe empty suits of armor. So why, then, have Fox and the filmmakers distanced Prometheus from Alien? Probably because, unlike most of the prequels we're used to, this one won't go out of its way to very specifically link up to the first film, showing how Ripley got her job at Weyland Yutani and whatnot.

This image, the latest in a string of Prometheus castmembers looking awestruck by something happening offscreen, debuted at the LA Times as part of their huge 2012 preview.

The Times article includes some talk from Damon Lindelof, the Lost executive producer who took over as the writer of Prometheus, working from previous drafts by Jon Spaihts. His most substantial comment promises a huge scale for the film, as he says,

“The movie is definitely epic in its scope. One of the filmmakers that we ended up talking about to a fair degree of redundancy was David Lean, who directed ‘Lawrence of Arabia. We wanted to make the movie feel big by having the characters be small in big spaces. That connected to the larger themes we were talking about — that we’re all just these little gnats crawling around on our little planet.”

Hopefully this means minutes-long shots soaring over the planetary surface, with the characters showing up as teeny tiny solitary figures in a vast and inhospitable landscape. Man, Lawrence of Arabia is awesome in the actual sense of the word.

Prometheus, which stars Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall Green, and Guy Pearce, arrives in theaters on June 8th.