Yesterday quite a lot of movie sites ran what appeared to be a plot description of Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s is-it-an-Alien-prequel-or-not movie that’s currently in production. It was pretty cool and if correct could have made for a great movie, however it seems to have caused a bit of a panic at Fox, who quickly moved to say the description was way off base, while releasing their own synopsis to try and combat it.
That synopsis dropped over at JoBlo, and to be honest, it doesn’t really tell us much. It’s 70 words long and mainly seems designed to stroke Ridley Scott’s ego and inform us it’s a sci-fi movie (which I’m sure nobody has guessed).
Here it is: ‘Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to lifes ultimate mystery.’
JoBlo also says Ben Foster has joined the cast, although it isn’t certain who he’ll play. He’ll star alongside the likes of Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green and Michael Fassbender. The movie will be out June, 2012.
Oh, and if you’re interested in that ‘false’ plot description, we’ve included it below. However in case it’s more correct than Fox is suggesting (it could be based on an earlier version of the script), we’ve put it in in invisio-text (highlight below to see it), which arrived over at The Playlist.
Earth. Year 2058.
Archaeological digs in Africa reveal alien artifacts that humans were genetically engineered by a advanced alien race (space jockeys). These Alien Gods also terraformed Earth in order to make it habitable for their human creations. Amongst finds are coordinates to the Alien Gods home-world, to Paradise. Months later the Weyland Corp launch the spaceship PROMETHEUS and his crew, into deep space to make first contact. Thanks to faster than light travel a few years later the PROMETHEUS enters the Zeta Riticuli star system. Humans are greeted by their makers, then transported further into space to a scary yet fascinating world. The Alien Gods are proud of their children, their first creation to reach such levels of intelligence.
As a reward they share bits of their astonishing bio-based technologies with the humans. But for one crew member of the Prometheus its not enough. In a treacherous act he steals the bio-source code to Terraforming, a technology at the origin of all Gods power, that could make humans equal to the gods. The Alien Gods may be scientists but are also ruthless conquerors, destroyers of worlds who will not accept humans as equals. They unleash on the escaping human crew their favorite bio-weapon, a creature used to clean up worlds before colonization. But something goes wrong in the process and humans manage to turn the bio-weapon against their makers. Giving birth to a smarter, nastier, bigger breed of gut eating creatures. Creatures that will be the demise of Paradise. Whats left of the Prometheus crew manages to escape the doomed planet.
On their trail a survivor Alien God in very familiar ship with one ultimate mission.
Bring the wrath of the Gods to Earth.