Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s prequel to Alien, is being promoted with “Happy Birthday David”, an online short film featuring Michael Fassbender as David, an advanced android designed to be indistinguishable from humans. David, who serves as the ship’s butler and maintenance man, has begun to develop his own ego, insecurities, jealousy and envy.
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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. See more at More at PrometheusForum.net
Credits
Filming was shot by director Ridley Scott at Scott Free and Brandywine Productions with director of photography Dariusz Wolski, producers David Giler and Walter Hill, editor Pietro Scalia.