VIDEO: Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ Hits The Lecture Circuit In Clever Promo

COMMENTS (24)

• Excellent bit of work. It has me wanting more.

  Comment by Sorry — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 1:36pm PST  Reply to this post

• Was that bit about the robots soon to be indistinguishable from humans about the Ian Holm played robot in the first Alien, or was that a subtle tie in to the Blade Runner universe?

  Comment by mombuthow? — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 1:58pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Pretty sure it was a reference to the androids that are prominent throughout the entire Alien series (one of which will be played by Michael Fassbender in Prometheus)

    Comment by Joe W — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 2:13pm PST  Reply to this post

• Doing it right.

  Great job, Ridley!

  Comment by Rob — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 1:58pm PST  Reply to this post

• Awesome.

  Comment by lalilulelo — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 1:59pm PST  Reply to this post

• Space junk. What chops Ridley had in the eighties has gone missing.

  Comment by anon. — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 2:00pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Hey anon, that is space junk? Why don’t you post a link to some of your work. Personally, I think it’s a brilliant marketing campaign and has me wanting to see more. Give him a chance at least. Stop being jaded just for the sake of being jaded. I’d really like to see some of your masterpieces though…..please, enlighten us.

    Comment by scififan — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 2:15pm PST  Reply to this post

    • A good lure, but I’ll pass. We DO make games and now something a little beyond, but it’s nothing I can share here. There was a time when a reveal like Guy Pearce playing an android would have best been saved for the film, but these days, it takes a TV droid like Lindelof to scare Sir Ridley into pushing a cheapo version of his Apple ad and coopt TED to seduce the corporatebots out there. Like you?

      Comment by anon. — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 4:08pm PST  Reply to this post

      • “We DO make games and now something a little beyond, but it’s nothing I can share here.”

        Huh?

        Comment by Magilla — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 5:45pm PST  Reply to this post

      • Come again?

        Comment by asuka — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 7:56pm PST  Reply to this post

  • agreed, the attempt at grandiosity is forced and unconvincing…pearce wasn’t a great pick for this, his accent is bad and wrong for the part, and the dialogue is extra starchy while lacking the verisimilitude required by the venue (we’ve all heard a variety of TED speakers talk)

    Comment by sensitive bitch — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 2:22pm PST  Reply to this post

    • right on!

      Comment by Max — Wednesday February 29, 2012 @ 11:29am PST  Reply to this post

• Love Ridley, can’t wait for Prometheus. But I thought the point of the faux ephemeral films was to make them believable, to think that they might actually be genuine. Did anyone here actually believe a Ted talk might feel like this? Guy Pearce is usually great, but way to ham it up in this….

  Good idea. Failed execution.

  Comment by BadHatHarry — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 2:14pm PST  Reply to this post

  • It’s called, “playing a character.” Did you expect Guy Pearce to play this like JJ did at his TED talk.

    Comment by bd — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 3:53pm PST  Reply to this post

    • F’n hilarious – because you’re right on the money.BadHatHarry, must not know anything about movies. Performance, presentation, and entertainment – not lecture, bore, and kinda dole out – which I’m sure kids would love to pay money to watch (sarcasm). Besides, how would he or anyone know how a TED talk would be next year, yet alone 2023. BHH, off the mark on this one.

      Comment by anon — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 7:54pm PST  Reply to this post

• Brilliant!

  Comment by Johnny Drama — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 2:54pm PST  Reply to this post

• so I guess TED is now in film marketing and promotions…what a sell out. So much for integrity.

  Comment by racerx — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 4:18pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I’m a little surprised this is the only comment (so far) pointing this out.

    I guess a Hollywood viral campaign now counts as a “big idea” ?

    Of course, this clears the way for Doctors Without Borders run some “World War Z” promos.

    Comment by GoodGuyGreg — Wednesday February 29, 2012 @ 5:54am PST  Reply to this post

• ok, this is genius. Movie Marketing at its best. This thing is going to be huge

  Comment by awesome — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 9:12pm PST  Reply to this post

• I’m so looking forward to this, but the one thing bothering me is what his masterpiece Blade Runner also has, an overly optimistic view of technological “progress. The year 2023 just doesn’t feel right. It should be further along.

  Comment by moe — Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 11:56pm PST  Reply to this post

• Why isn’t Guy Pearce in more things?

  Comment by dee123 — Wednesday February 29, 2012 @ 12:38am PST  Reply to this post

• There’s something about Guy Pearce’s acting that seems off (besides his bad forced accent in this viral). He never convinces me with his characters. Something he shares with Russell Crowe. I also think they should make this 2053 and not so close to now for the advances to be somewhat believable.

  Comment by Max Renn — Wednesday February 29, 2012 @ 5:12am PST  Reply to this post

• I thought Pearce was remarkable and the simplicity of his performance with good writing far more alluring than the quick-cut, smash-up F/X trailers that all seem to start looking like the same movie.

  Comment by Todd — Wednesday February 29, 2012 @ 10:33am PST  Reply to this post

• The negative comments here sound so pathetic. If Citizen Kane was released today I bet the same people would write snarky things about it.

  Comment by Judson — Wednesday February 29, 2012 @ 2:19pm PST  Reply to this post