What can you see on the new picture from "Prometheus"?

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Few days ago a whole bunch of usual character pictures was released in part of the promotion for "Prometheus". Whenever there is something new connected to the movie online I always hold my breath since I anticipate it so much, but with those pictures I wasn't impressed. But, hell, I am now. The above picture has been playing with my mind for two days now. But let me fill you in on the details.

Do you guys remember this scene from Alien?

That dead thing in the chair is Space Jockey. That scene came out of nowhere. After "Alien" ended we didn't know anything about Space Jockey, except for the fact there is a hole in its chest. Now, what can make a hole in the chest? What could burst from it?...

Ridley Scott himself was always surprised as to why nobody did anything with Space Jockey's character in Alien franchise. As much as he likes the direction James Cameron chose in "Aliens", he always felt that Jockey's story should be told. And guess what? It will be, in "Prometheus".

The official synopsis for the movie says: "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." What have been speculated for a long time is that the origins of mankind, the very first people in this movie were...created by Space Jockeys, the engineers. So the humanoid on the picture is most likely one of those.

But if you look closely, there is something coming out of his arm and forming into a creature. Also there is a weird tear in the rib area of his body. Clearly Jockey is creating something. What is it though?

The whole controversy about what the rating of the movie will be aside, Scott's and Lindelof's favorite way of teasing fans is saying there will be no aliens in this one. Yet Lindelof recently started his usual incoherent ramblings filled with metaphors saying that if you going to see the Stones, you want to hear new hits but you are hoping they will play "Sympathy for the Devil".

Is the teasing fun? No. Will it work? Yes. If they persistently keep saying "no Aliens" and then using their metaphors and there will be no Aliens in the movie, they will be able to say "Hey, we told you so'. But in this moment, it seems we can expect to see our beloved creatures. I'm basing it mostly on final words of the article published in Empire.

What are the new hits? Based on the trailer alone, quite a few:

There is someone standing above Elizabeth Shaw and it doesn't look entirely human,

The worm going inside the eye,

The things on the urn causing David to smile ever so creepy,

The creature above Elizabeth Shaw's head,

The mural depicting our old buddy,

 Finally the Space Jockey's suit itself. But who is in it?

At the screening of the new footage in London few days ago a particularly interesting thing was shown - Chris Hewitt at Empire said: "[...] a tiny thing which, true to form for this franchise, has a mouth that is redolent of female genitalia – rearing up, presumably while the Prometheus crew is completing their first sweep of the planet. What does this mean? It’s not a facehugger, or an Alien, but something else entirely" The thing he is describing is probably the creature we briefly saw in the trailer getting into someone's suit:

By the way, at the screening of 8 minutes of the movie in Paris yesterday it was announced that the running time of the film is 119 minutes and there are 17 additional minutes we will see on DVD. I'm mad there will be cuts. But I do not want to change this post into another R/pg-13 rant. The cuts made to Alien weren't that bad - although the additional scenes that were cut were good, Scott's explanation for cutting them was completely satisfying. However as I have seen his director's cut of "Kingdom of heaven" I couldn't believe how much the movie lost due to cuts. Let's hope it won't be the case with "Prometheus".