For all the Alien aficionados out there who grew up on the masterpieces that were Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic and James Cameron’s militarized, squad-based sequel, you probably remember that Ellen Ripley and her cohorts battled two big evils throughout the franchise. Not just those nasty Giger-designed xenomorphs, but that other ultimate Satan, a massive conglomerate known as Weyland-Yutani aka “The Company.”
In a sorta-brilliant marketing move, Prometheus/Alien prequel director Ridley Scott projects 11 years into the future with a fake-TED conference featuring Guy Pearce as Peter Weyland, a man who will eventually extol revolutionizing space travel, colonizing planets, and exerting every effort towards utilizing the aliens of LV-426 as a military weapon.
This meant humans were expendable and useful only as incubators for the little buggers, so that nasty Company scientists could study them. Shades of that megalomaniacal attitude are evident here in Pearce’s Weyland, complete with an accent which — coincidentally? — sounds a bit like director Ridley Scott’s. Does it do anything for you guys hoping for a more solid Alien-Prometheus connection? Or is this just Scott’s attempt to placate cynics?
If this is the best we’re gonna get, I dunno if I’d hold out much hope. Then again, we know we’re getting that space jockey at some point. Anyways, check it out and see what you think:
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