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granolaboy
MemberOvomorphJul-11-2012 6:52 PMDid you know this comics by O'Bannon and Moebius ? It's called "The Long Tomorrow" ? Ridley is a huge fan of it. He admitted to think of it a lot during the making of bladerunner and he completely copied a scene of it for prometheus with the attack of the giant facehugger against the enginner in the end of the film. Take a look at this picture :
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lneUOCr1mhI/T_VBiXt4TII/AAAAAAAAA8E/tWc2WFr6-kU/s640/the_long_tomorrow_facehugger.jpg[/img]
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Crazy Hudson
MemberOvomorphJul-11-2012 6:59 PMWell its not like its stealing, Ridley Scott and Dan O'bannon worked together on Alien together, so if Ridley saw something cool that Dan did, then im sure Dan was cool with it... where can i finds this comic, how old is it? maybe Dan got the idea from Ridley?
granolaboy
MemberOvomorphJul-11-2012 7:04 PMIt was released in 1976, in the pages of a french SF magazine "Metal Hurlant".
This magazine was published in the US with the name "heavy metal".
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Crazy Hudson
MemberOvomorphJul-11-2012 7:05 PMSorry your right, they started illistrating in 1975, so Ridley borrowed it from Dan.
Actually a lot of the pictures look similar to other movies made by Scott, Blade Runner And Alien.
Type it into Google Images and you can see a lot of the scaned pictures.
deftones1986
MemberOvomorphJul-11-2012 7:15 PMGreat find!
I can't wait until all the "references" to other movies, comics, shows, etc used in Prometheus....are all gathered into one big library.
It's a big treasure hunt that's for sure..
Also while on the topic of references and the giant facehugger......the moment when Shaw came back to the medpod room when the door was closed, and one of the giant facehuggers tentacles smacks the glass....it reminded me ALOT of this scene!
http://youtu.be/wwhI7qdrsaA
I can't find a video of that scene but only a few seconds before where the guy slams into the glass, because that's the part I'm reminded of....but hopefully you get the hint.
MVMNT
MemberOvomorphJul-11-2012 7:20 PMEven better... have some videos:
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QozLSpjQc]The Long tomorrow[/url]
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8QozLSpjQc0#t=513s]Above shot begins at this scene[/url] for a little more context
There's also [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq2nC8iNi0E]The Star[/url]
granolaboy
MemberOvomorphJul-11-2012 7:40 PMYou're right mvmnt, the strange temple and the escape of the planete in the opening story of the star (la planète encore) are very closed to Prometheus : archeology, mysticism and science-fiction !
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genjitsu17
MemberOvomorphJul-11-2012 8:07 PMGood find!! RIP Dan O'bannon.
I may work for the company, but im really an OK guy.
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