What better way to give your film an authentic, space-faring feel than to draw direct inspiration from images supplied directly from an organisation that exists solely for that exact purpose? Other than filming some of its scenes in remote parts of the world, Ridley Scott managed to get a plethora of satellite images from NASA while filming Prometheus to create some of the more fantastical locations seen in the film. LV-223's aesthetic appearance in particular, was based heavily on images that NASA had taken of the surfaces of Mars and other, more distant planets to make up its geography. Mountain, cliff and gulley placements were all carefully decided upon after Scott reviewed the said images to create a convincing and alien-looking location. In particular, the canyon that the titular Prometheus ship lands in on LV-223 was heavily inspired by various locations pictured on Mars. Who knows, if we ever achieve the feat of actually making a manned expedition to the red planet, maybe we'll one day be able to visit a Prometheus tourist attraction?
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.
