Yo vuelvo a estar en desacuerdo con ese punto de vista por el que Prometheus ya no es lo que era y que la menor presencia de Shaw no estuviese ya planeado desde mucho antes a que se incluyera la palabra Alien en el título.
De primeras he de decir que la palabra Covenant, como Prometheus, tiene su simbología religiosa:
Respetando todas las opiniones, analicemos lo dicho por Scott en recientes entrevistas y analicemos lo filtrado del guión.Cita:
The new (and hopefully final) title of the film is Alien: Covenant. The word “covenant” is defined as “an agreement,” which is usually in a religious context.
Marzo o de abril de 2015:
Se filtra mucha información, entre la que está todo el tema de los múltiples androides, la incapacitación de Shaw, la nueva expedición y varias líneas argumentales:
Spoiler:
10 de agosto de 2015:
Es decir, ya se consideraba en el mes de agosto (antes de cambiar de título) a la nueva expedición.Cita:
[UPDATE: 10/8/2015] According to Sir Ridley in an interview with Awards Campaign, Shaw and David will be joined by a new crew by the end of act one of the film:
“It’s going to be it’s own separate thing because they are going to the planet of the Engineers and they are going to see what happened there. It was a disaster. And they will be in that alien craft that takes them there, but with a new group that’s incoming, a new group of travelers in the beginning of the first act.”
12 de septiembre de 2015 (durante la promo de The Martian):
Como se puede leer, Scott sigue con su idea del creacionismo y hablando de los Ingenieros.Cita:
DEADLINE: Where do you take the Prometheus 2 plot?
SCOTT: You can either say, leave the first film alone and jump ahead, but you can’t because it ends on too specific a plot sentence as she says, I want to go where they came from, I don’t want to go back to where I came from. I thought the subtext of that film was a bit florid and grandiose, but it asks a good question: who created us? I don’t think we are here by accident. I find it otherwise hard to believe you and I are sitting here at this table, because the molecular miracles that would have had to occur were in the trillions, since the first sign of human life that crawled out of the mud with four fingers, would bloody well be impossible, unless there was some guidance system. Also, you have the sun approximately the same distance from earth as it is from maybe millions of planets and planetoids that are almost identical distance and therefore enjoy the value of sunlight on their soil. Are you telling me there are no other planets with human life? I simply don’t believe it.
That raises the question to me, same as was depicted in 2001 when that object comes hurtling through space, and lands in Ethiopia. And an ape that had been grubbing around in the water hole with all of them bickering at each other, goes up and touches it. He has a bigger thought injected into his brain than Newton got sitting under a tree and seeing an apple fall. Stanley then picks something metaphorically poetic in its violence, as the ape picks up a hip bone and brains the anteater so they can eat him. That is one gigantic, magnificent leap of a thousand years of evolution; that is where the world begins. It is pretty grand thinking, and that’s what I want to explore. You’ve got to go back and find those engineers and see what they are thinking. If engineers are the forerunners of us, and therefore were creators of life forms in places that were possible for biology to function, who created that? Where’s the big boy? You think this was all an accident? I don’t know. Even Stephen Hawking now says, I am not sure. He no longer believes in the big bang.
25 de septiembre de 2015:
Scott manifiesta que lo interesante es quién hizo a los Aliens y ¿por qué?.Cita:
"We will see who made it, and why. That’s what’s interesting”
29 de septiembre de 2015:
Cita:
In an interview with Yahoo, Sir Ridley has elaborated on how the title ties into Milton’s original poem of the same name:
“Have you ever read Paradise Lost, by Milton? In a funny kind of way, it’s an interesting basis for the darkness of [Prometheus 2]. Where the good-looking guy, who is evil as s–t, gets all the girls and goes to the nightclubs. The other guy, who is not quite as good-looking, is boring as hell and stays home.
So in a funny kind of way, we used that as the basis for it, it’ll be Alien: Paradise Lost. Which is very spooky, because it continues after the last one, where Elizabeth Shaw [Noomi Rapace] says, ‘I wanna go where they came from.’ And you’ve got Michael Fassbender in two parts, so she’ll slowly put him back together.
They will go to the world of the Engineer… That’s where they’re going to go. They will find out who would design such an awful bio-mechanoid creature, like a massive piece of bacteria.”
11 de noviembre de 2015:
Se habla de que habrá varios monstruos, se hablará de los Ingenieros y, sobre todo, que la película no seguirá la estela de una película típica de Alien.Cita:
“The movie will have 2 Monsters, one is new and both are different yet similar to the Xeno DNA. The NEW Monster is a New Event, so it’s nothing created before the Events of the end of the First movie.... it's created by an event in the movie... and this New Monster is going to be based off of the Original Concept that Alien drew influence from, and this idea is something they had planned with Spaights’ Ultramorph and so Gigers Necomonicon 4 is the starting point. This Monster will be transparent like a Jelly Fish to a degree.... and it’s hinted that David plays a part in its creation.
The movie won’t be going the route of an Alien movie, just we will see more clues and things that we can relate and make connection to the Xeno DNA and Bio-Mechanics of the Engineers. The movie will loosely touch up on themes that can connect to the Prometheus Mythos and the Bible but more in respect to the Paradise Lost version of events but again loosely.
They won’t be going a full blown Ancient Aliens in detail on us, just we can make subtle links to themes, such as Rebellion, Order of Creation (that has multiple layers that does not start with the Engineers and does not end with David). Stealing of Forbiden Knowledge and Fire and how playing God and going against God always has dire consequences.”
30 de noviembre de 2015:
Subrayo lo más importante, que es que cuando se acabe con Prometheus 2 habrá otras dos películas que poco a poco irán conectando con lo visto en Alien. También se vuelve a mencionar la importancia de ¿quién creo a los Aliens? y ¿por qué?.Cita:
“Its a very complex story. Its an evolution of what I first did with Prometheus 1. Prometheus 1 was borne out of my frustration that on Alien 1 in 1979 – I only did one as I don’t normally do sequels. I was amazed that in the 3 that followed that no-one asked the question ‘why the Alien, who made it and why?’ Very basic questions. So I came up with the notion of Prometheus 1, which starts to indicate who might have made it and where it came from.
So I’m now going to the next one, which is the next evolution directly connected with the first one, which was this Shaw, when [s]he replaced Michael Fassbender in two pieces and we’ll kind of pick it up there and it will evolve. When that’s finished there’ll be another one and then another one which will gradually drive into the back entrance of the film in 1979… So in other words, why was this space jockey there and why did he have an Alien inside him? And those questions will be answered.”
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En resumidas cuentas, Scott sigue con su idea de los Ingenieros, de su poder creacionista, el título tiene reminiscencias religiosas, hubo filtraciones desde antes de cancelarse Alien 5 que ya hablaban de Aliens, una Shaw impedida, múltiples Davids y una nueva tripulación. Actualmente sabemos que aparecerá Shaw, que habrá un planeta hostil y que habrá varios Davids.
Y a todo eso hay que unir el hecho de que Ridley Scott solicitara, antes de cancelarse Alien 5 y cuando aún era Prometheus 2, que la quinta película retocara cosas del guión porque podrían interferir con lo contado por Scott en su secuela.
Es decir, que antes de cancelarse Alien 5 ya tenían todo bien atado.
Un saludo y espero que os haya gustado mi reflexión... a pesar de que nuestro punto de vista pueda ser diferente.
