Not two days after I swore never to step foot in a comic book convention I find out that the woman I would have a baby alien for and let it come exploding out my stomach was at one talking about her new Sci Fi film.
From AfterEllen: In presenting his new film, Prometheus, at Comic-Con, Ridley Scott was torn between building excitement for the presumed Alienprequel and keeping the project shrouded in secrecy.
What he did decide to show, including footage of stars Charlize Theron, Idris Elba and Michael Fassbender bouncing around in retro spacesuits, looked amazing, even if details about the film were sparse.
“Ridley has been sort of very cryptically obtuse about everything, and he will probably kill us if we say too much about the movie,” screenwriter Damon Lindelof said. “If you were looking for answers, you came to the wrong place.”
Theron was equally circumspect. When asked if she could share any details about her character, Meredith Vickers, she replied, “No, I can’t, sorry. I’m just here to be pretty.”
One thing she would share, though was that she wasn’t sure about playing Vickers — the “suit” behind the film’s expedition — at least not as she was originally written. “Obviously I wanted to work with [Scott], but I felt like the character was a little one-dimensional,” she admitted, explaining that Scott quickly set Lindelof to work fleshing out the character. “I can’t tell you what he came up with, but he came up with some good s–t,” she said. “She kind of starts out one thing and ends up another thing, and it’s a pretty nice surprise. I don’t want to ruin that for you.”
