Because there hadn’t been a new Prometheus clip or still in the last few hours and that simply wouldn’t do, Ridley Scott released (via his YouTube) this new short clip, “Prometheus has landed.” Prometheus is the name of the ship, get it?? The clip doesn’t show us a lot, but we do get a nice broad-side, money shot of the spaceship itself, a lá Michael Fassbender’s dong closeup at the beginning of Shame. Then Idris Elba tells the crew “brace for entry!” (insert Fassmember joke here) and they put on their seatbelts and grab their oh-shit handles, while Elba himself casually strolls through the cabin like it was a hotel lobby. He doesn’t even hold onto anything to stabilize himself, not even Michael Fassbender’s dong, which is probably the first thing I’d grab for if I was losing my balance on a spaceship. I guess the moral here is that even in space, black guys have really good balance.

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I’m red-green colorblind myself, so this could be a little off-base, but most of the trailers and spots we’ve seen from Prometheus thus far have seemed mostly grey and steel-colored and desaturated. In this new batch of 17 images released at EW, many from the set in Iceland (like the one above), we get lots of vivid blues and yellows. Neat? I mean, I like colors. Also, there’s Charlize Theron’s butt looking all hot in her supertight space pants. In fact, I put this picture at the top because it showed the most butt. That’s an old blogger trick.

After The Avengers and Dark Knight Rises, it seems like Prometheus, which opens June 8th, is the next most-anticipated movie of the summer. But that could just be my love of Robot F. Assbender talking. Look at him, I just want to go everywhere with him, experience the world through his gentle robot eyes.

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Someone at Fox apparently thinks they need more than this banner picture to sell Prometheus, and today we have ANOTHER new trailer, which you can watch below. Sidenote: If you don’t want to see this based on Michael Fassbender as an effeminate robot alone, we have nothing in common. This new three-minute trailer has:

• EVEN MORE people moving computer holograms around with their hands!
• EVEN MORE Inception-esque BRAAAHM sound effects (you’ve finally done it, Prometheus! we’re all out of BRAAHMS!)
• The red-headed assassin dude from The Borgias (crap, I’m the only one who watches The Borgias, aren’t I).
• Charlize Theron’s name, which is “Miss Vickers.”
• Stringer Bell being so badass that he pilots his spaceship in a standing position (harnesses are for bitches, yo).

Anyway, that’s what I got from the first 90 seconds or so. Three minutes is way too much of a movie I know I’m going to see anyway. NERD BONER: ENGORGE.

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Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof released the full-length trailer for Prometheus at Wondercon, and from the looks of it, it was BYOB. Bring Your Own (*BRAAAAAAAAHM*)

 In the distant future, two superpowers control Earth and fight each other for all the solar system’s natural resources. When one side dispatches a team to a distant planet to terraform it for human colonization, the team discovers an indigenous race of bio-mechanoid killers.
Ridley Scott, director of ‘Alien’ and ‘Blade Runner,’ returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Charlize Theron, and Logan Marshall-Green, Prometheus is due in theaters June 8th. [AMC Theaters via TheDailyWhat]

Have you noticed that literally EVERY movie about the future has one of those giant holographic computer screens with icons that you move around with your hands? I’m convinced that that product actually exists, and this is just the longest viral marketing campaign in history.

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The trailer for Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s prequel/sequel/sorta-related story to Alien is finally online. The movie stars Idris Elba, Michael F. Assbender, Guy Pearce, Noomi Rapace, and Charlize Theron, and of itself, the trailer would be pretty cool. It doesn’t tell us much beyond the fact that the sets are really big, but who doesn’t love a big set (*points to ‘TITS OR GTFO’ shirt*)?  But after Fox released no fewer than THREE teasers for the trailer (yes, trailers for a trailer, basically), I guess I expected more than a 60-second trailer where none of the shots last more than a few seconds. If Prometheus himself had made this big a deal about the gift of fire, I think humanity would’ve been like, “Jeez, asshole, we get it already, get over yourself.”

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