Friday 2 November 2012

Prometheus Research Task

Prometheus is about a hovering space craft departs an Earth-like world, a humanoid alien drinks a drank bubbling liquid, and then starts to disintegrate. The alien’s remains cascade into a waterfall, his DNA triggers a biogenetic reaction.

The film is directed by Ridley Scott who had directed and produced films like, Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Gladiator, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven, American Gangster, and Prometheus.
  It is produced by David Giler and Walter Hill. David Giler is an American filmmaker who has been active in the motion picture industry since the early 1960s. Walter Hill is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.

Jon Spaihts was one of the writers, also the writer in ‘Alien Saga’. He was known as the ‘go to guy for space thrillers’, he produced high-value screenplays.   ‘Lindelof is the writer of the comic book miniseries Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk for Marvel Comics, which takes place in the Ultimate Marvel universe and began publication in January 2006. Despite being a six-issue miniseries, production was suspended after the second issue in February 2006 due to Lindelof's heavy workload elsewhere; however, the last of the scripts were submitted to Marvel in 2008 and the series resumed publication in March 2009.

The film has some known stars but not extremely well known;
-Noomi Rapace
-Michael Fassbender
-Guy Pearce
-Idris Elba
-Logan Marshall-Green


The running time of the film was 124 minutes, which has a language of English. The original budget for the film was $130 million, and had a total box office total of $402.48 million, which made the film a huge success from the audience.

“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 and awards.”


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