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Prometheus Ditches Subtlety In Favor Of Explosions For New Poster

Date: May 17, 2012 | Author: Josh Tyler | Category: Sci-Fi

Though there’s been a lot of it, so far most of the marketing for Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel Prometheus has been pretty subtle. The posters feature things like the outline of a face, the images are all closeups of astronauts screaming at something horrible off camera. The trailer shows flashes of things exploding or attacking but mostly it’s all reaction shots hinting at something more horrifying and shocking than you can imagine.

But not so much with the movie’s new international poster. Here it is…

No subtlety here. A space ship is blowing up and they’re running away from it. Actually, that image seems kind of like a spoiler doesn’t it? It’s not so much one ship blowing up as two ships colliding and blowing up. The top left of the explosion looks like pieces of the Prometheus and the bottom right looks like pieces of the alien craft we’ve seen in the trailers. Odd choice for a poster unless it’s merely symbolic. I refuse to believe they’d actually put the movie’s ending on a one sheet people can look at before they walk into the movie theater.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/ehbeard Erik Beard

    Coincidence that the ship on the right looks a lot like an Alien head (if you were to view it from the top)?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jesse-Akins/1540669584 Jesse Akins

    being as one of the trailers distinctly connects the alien ship leaving, naomi repace in a spacesuit screaming something about “if we don’t stop them, there won’t be a home” at charlize theron who’s back in the ship. . . and at least one other scene that look ominiously like two ships about to collide.. then I vote on yes, they would put the ending of the film on a one-sheet.

    • baby fart mcgeeziaks

      but anyone who has seen Alien and knows anything about how this film is connected with it knows that the ship is going crash at some point.

  • corrosivepress

    And do you honestly think the marketing people actually put that much thought into the poster? Outside of hoping for a reaction of: “That look like something blow up real good! Let’s go see alien-exploding-stuff movie,” the only thing they probably worked their small brains over was the question if the poster should also mention director of “Blade Runner.” (Likely answer: “Naw. Who remembers that? Let’s go to lunch.”)

  • UnRiel

    OK, Prometheus suicide crashing into Alien vessel??? Too much spoiler

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1527087599 Gene Pereverzev

    Haha, yeah it is kind of like a spoiler, except there were only, like, two people left when that happened. Still, it’s not what I would call the most important part of the film, or the ending of it, rather.