Ridley Scott has been filming
Prometheus for some weeks now at Pinewood Studios and 20th Century Fox have so far done a great job of keeping away the spy photographers and keeping a tight leash on those working on the production as hardly anything has been leaked online for some time now. But then, no movie is 100% free from news spillage and
Alien Prequel News have this week stumbled across a call sheet that unveils two new castings for the movie -
Emun Elliott (Black Death) is listed playing a character named Chance, and
Benedict Wong portraying Ravel. Further research suggests Ravel recently stated prometheusboom!
on his twitter, so we know this story is most likely legit and perhaps the actor caught Scott's eye from his turn in Danny Boyle's Sunshine, a movie clearly inspired by Alien. But the real juicy info is an email they have received detailing the xenomorph-like aliens (and it really does sound like aliens!) from the movie which have been spotted, because of the sunny weather of all things;
"Though security on the set is very tight with the good weather, dock doors have been open and cast and crew have been enjoying lunch outdoors. I can confirm seeing 3 aliens having lunch. Not the whole costume but blueish costumes and the unmistakable heads hanging around their shoulders"
"The alien heads were the same shape but no markings, only a plane bronze colour. As for the suits black boots and shoulder pads the rest was a Chelsea blue body suit could be for SFX, all the sets around the back of the bond stage have huge green chromokey maybe that's a clue. I have witnessed foam cut outs of unmistakable aliens all cut in half lengh ways so they could be in the floor walls etc and very much from the original film."
The site goes on to note that at the back of the James Bond stage is an 'enormous structure' which could be the Space Jockey's craft;
"I managed to enter the bond stage one weekend when no filming was sheduled all I can say is there is a very very long tunnel that leads to an enormous structure at the back of the stage which is the same height as the stage and probably extends out another 200 ft. All of these sets are surrounded by wood foam and scaffold so sid not see inside, I think this is were the Space Jockey set is."
And with each further day that passes, it sounds more and more like a movie that is absolutely an Alien prequel and Fox, Scott and writer
Damon Lindelof were trying to keep that fact a secret as long as they could. But it hasn't worked and they were probably insane to think it would. Ridley Scott working on the Alien franchise again is supremely exciting. One of next year's mot anticipated for me...