TOM HARDY STARRING IN NEW FX SERIES, TABOO

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Matt Fowler



FX has ordered Taboo, a drama series from award-winning producer Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator), Academy Award-nominated writer Steven Knight (Locke) and award-winning actor/producer Tom Hardy - who will also star.

Scott Free Films and Hardy Son & Baker will commence production on the eight-episode first season mid-to-late 2015 in the U.K., with the series tentatively slated to debut in mid-2016. The series is being produced for BBC One in the U.K., with Sonar Entertainment distributing internationally.

Set in 1813, Taboo is based on an original story by Hardy and his father, Chips Hardy. In Taboo, Hardy plays the lead role of “James Keziah Delaney,” a rogue adventurer who returns from Africa with 14 ill-gotten diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father. Refusing to sell the family business to the East India Company, he sets out to build his own trade and shipping empire and finds himself playing a very dangerous game.

Taboo was created by Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises, Peaky Blinders), who most recently wrote and directed the feature film Locke starring Hardy. Scott and Hardy will both serve as executive producers on Taboo.

“We are privileged to have landed Taboo and to work with this exceptional team led by Ridley, Tom and Steven,” said Eric Schrier, President of Original Programming, FX Networks and FX Productions. “Tom’s passion for this project, from conceiving the original idea with his father to portraying James Delaney, promises to infuse this epic story with great personal passion and credibility.



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Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace interviewed on Charlie Rose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpQY867nktw

Revealed: What Did David Say to the Engineer at the End of 'Prometheus'? 4 COMMENTS Beef up on your Proto-Indo-European BY: BRAD BREVET PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20TH 2012 AT 1:21 PM (ROPE OF SILICON)

NOTE: Obviously, this post contains spoilers.

Stu Holmes of The Bioscopist interviewed Dr. Anil Biltoo of the SOAS Language Centre in London, who served as the Linguist Teacher on Ridley Scott's Prometheus. In his chat learned what David (Michael Fassbender) said to the Engineer at the end of the film as there were no subtitles and it has been something many have wondered given what happens next.

Is David uttering nonsense or is there an actual language being spoken here? Stu has the answers for us as he first mentions the scene in which we see David studying Proto-Indo-European (PIE) Linguistics, in which a holographic professor, takes him through the ABC's and recites "Schleicher's Fable."

The holographic professor in this scene actually is Dr. Biltoo and he isn't at all against revealing what it is Fassbender's David says at the end of the film (listen to some isolated audio from the scene here):


The line that David speaks to the Engineer [which is from a longer sequence that didn't make the final edit] is as follows:

ida hmanəm aɪ kja namṛtuh zdℇ:taha … ghʷɪvah-pjorn-ɪttham sas da:tṛ kredah

A serviceable translation into English is:

"This man is here because he does not want to die. He believes you can give him more life."

READ MORE:  http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/revealed-what-did-david-say-engineer-end-prometheus/

Michael Fassbender: Paradise Found? Prometheus Sequel Named (PEREZ HILTON) (spoilers)

WARNING! WARNING!

If you haven’t seen Prometheus, we sincerely recommend you bookmark this page and go watch it immediately!!

We don’t mind waiting.

Oscar-nominated director Ridley Scott came clean recently about his intentions for a sequel.
The sci-fi hit that was equal parts action and philosophy AND it slaughtered so many of its main characters, we were honestly curious how he could approach it.

Worry not! The 74 year-old director has a plan.

He said:

"From the very beginning, I was working from a premise that lent itself to a sequel… I really don't want to meet God in the first one. I want to leave it open to [Noomi Rapace's character Dr Elizabeth Shaw] saying, 'I don't want to go back to where I came from. I want to go where they came from'.”


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'Prometheus' best sci-fi since 'The Matrix' By Kameron McBride Published: Sunday, June 10, 2012 (DN ON LINE)

The long, strange march toward the opening of “Prometheus” has ended. After months exhaustive advertising and speculation, director Ridley Scott has released his first science-fiction film in more than 30 years. The result is a film that raises the broad questions of “where did we come from?” and “why were we created?”

The film balances its heady, intellectual brand of sci–fi well with the spectacular visuals of the film. “Prometheus” is a very memorable film that aims high and hits its mark, astonishing viewers even from the very first scene.

The film’s opening sequence feels like what would happen if Terrence Malick and Lars von Trier ever teamed up to make a short film. The shots are simply gorgeous as we lead with establishing shots of a planet — perhaps a very young Earth — until we eventually follow a cloaked figure standing next to a waterfall. The cloaked figure then removes his rope and drinks from a canister he brought with him. This leads to the figure decomposing before our eyes and crashing into river below the waterfall.

It’s hard to tell exactly what this all means, my thought was we were witnessing the birth of life on Earth, though I’m sure there are dozens of theories attempting to break down what it means.

We move on to follow two scientists who discover drawings across the planet that are identical, yet were drawn thousands of years apart. This leads them to explore a desolate planet that they believe holds the secret to the creation of life on Earth. A crew is assembled and the trillion–dollar budget is backed by the Weyland Corporation.

The crew arrive and begin to explore the planet, finding what could be our origin, but also stumbling upon what could be our destruction.

“Prometheus” has a great story, but also boasts a strong cast and spectacular visuals to boot.


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Movie Review: Prometheus Packed With Great Acting, Big Ideas—and Monsters! Today 4:27 PM PDT by PETER PARAS (E ONLINE)

Review in a Hurry: B +  Director Ridley Scott's (sorta) Alien prequel arrives with much secrecy, a stellar cast, and groundbreaking 3-D visuals. The sense of awesome is high. But the script by Lost mastermind Damon Lindelof unravels, starting out as a compelling "Tree of Life with monsters" to simply just monsters.

Then again, plenty of smarty-pants critics made similar complaints about Alien 33 years ago.


The Bigger Picture: In the year 2093, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and her hunky fellow scientist Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) make a discovery, the most significant in human history. Buried in caves throughout earth, are several maps leading to a location in deep space. Who made them? Man's creators? They board the ship Prometheus, off to find the literal meaning of life.

Director Scott hasn't made a sci-fi flick since '82 and that was Blade Runner—so no pressure. Yet his style of intricately detailed ginormous visuals balanced with tiny moments of suspense still impresses. Every lush image is matched with a thoughtfulness rarely seen in summer blockbusters.

The first half of the film is remarkable, as Shaw and the crew explore artifacts on an unknown world. Every step they take mixes clever technology with Big Ideas.

The cast is strong too.



Read more: http://www.eonline.com/news/movie_reviews/movie_review_prometheus_packed_with/321755

‘Prometheus’ premiere: Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace walk the blue carpet The stars came out to celebrate the world premiere Ridley Scott’s new sci-fi thriller (NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)

LONDON — The stars of “Prometheus” landed in London on a special blue carpet Thursday night for the world premiere of Sir Ridley Scott’s new sci-fi thriller.

Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Guy Pearce joined the director to meet fans at Leicester Square.

“Prometheus” takes its title from the spaceship in the story. The vessel goes on a mission to explore signs of alien life and the origins of mankind.

The film marks Scott’s return to the sci-fi genre after classics such as “Alien” and “Blade Runner.”

Twentieth Century Fox revealed the film has been given an “R” rating due to scenes of “sci-fi violence including some intense images, and brief language.” The worry is that the big budget film would suffer as it has a potential appeal to younger audiences, who now can’t attend without being accompanied by an adult. When questioned about this, Scott outlined that artistic integrity was his central concern, not cutting corners.

“What you don’t want to do is to undermine the fundamental punch of the movie. If it means taking things out and therefore diminishing it then you shouldn’t do that,” he said.



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Prometheus: Is It Any Good? Early Reviews Are In! Today 10:32 AM PDT by PETER GICAS (E ON LINE)

When it comes to Prometheus, the critics have spoken.

Well, a few of them have, at least, as early reviews are already starting to trickle in for director Ridley Scott's highly anticipated supposed prequel-of-sorts to Alien starring Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Swedish Girl With the Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace.


"Ridley Scott's third venture into science-fiction, after Alien in 1979 and Blade Runner in 1982, won't become a genre benchmark like those classics despite its equivalent seriousness and ambition," writes The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy. "But it does supply enough visual spectacle, tense action and sticky, slithery monster attacks to hit the spot with thrill-seeking audiences worldwide."

While "elaborately conceived from a visual standpoint," notes Variety's Justin Chang, it nevertheless "remains earthbound in narrative terms, forever hinting at the existence of a higher intelligence without evincing much of its own," adding that "the film conspicuously lacks the long, drawn-out silences and sense of menace in close quarters that made Alien so elegantly unnerving."


Read more:http://www.eonline.com/news/prometheus_it_any_good_early_reviews/319912

Michael Fassbender reveals the creepy secrets of his Prometheus character. (MORNING SPOILERS)

Prometheus

Michael Fassbender gives the latest take on just how Prometheus connects back to Alien in ways a mere prequel couldn't possibly hope to:

What I will say is that the first Alien film had an intelligent, slow-burning, sinister element to it — there's this feeling in this. Before I read the script, I thought the concept had already been exhausted. I'd seen so many of them — AVP: Alien Vs Predator, Alien here, Alien there. But I can tell you there's no Predator. I came dressed one day as the Predator and was like, "What do you think?" I tried to get him in [laughs]. But it's amazing. It's really about strong characters again. And I love the fact that Noomi [Rapace] is a strong leading female, like Sigourney Weaver was.

He also explains what he found so fascinating about his character, the android David:

What I thought was interesting was him being programmed to react in a certain way. And part of that is him blending in with humans, so does an ego develop to facilitate that? He's there to serve them, but he's sort of disliked because they think he might be superior to him. Or just different. Because humans have that thing where they're like, "Something's different? Persecute!"

Finally, he compares his character to Ian Holm's android in Alien:

He's less developed than Ian Holm [laughs]. That's the way I'm going to describe him from now on. Ridley said, "He's like the butler," but there's a vanity to him. And he always has the answers so there's a swagger to him, too. In fact, I think he might be kind of creepy. I do creepy well.


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Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba & Noomi Rapace Feature In Six New ‘Prometheus’ Images (FLICKS AND BITS)

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s 17 new images from Ridley Scott’s ridiculously awesome-looking flick ‘Prometheus,’ the films official Facebook page has released 6 more new images in honor of the page reaching 200,000 “likes”. ‘Prometheus’ features a top-notch cast in Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie, Rafe Spall, and Guy Pearce. Check out my interviews with Michael Fassbender for the film here, Ridley Scott here, and a joint interview with Noomi Rapace and Charlize Theron here. Look out for ‘Prometheus’ June 1st in the UK and June 8th in the US.

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.


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Michael Fassbender didn't watch Alien before appearing in Prometheus BANG Showbiz | Monday, May 07, 2012 (London) (NDTV MOVIES)

Michael Fassbender has a role in Sir Ridley Scott's forthcoming movie and though it is a prequel to the classic 1979 sci-fi film, he opted instead to watch Blade Runner as a part of his research because of the similarities in his part.

He said: "I didn't revisit Alien before we did this. Sometimes I would do that, but in this case I didn't. I watched Blade Runner though, I took a look at Sean Young and Rutger Hauer. I live Rutger Hauer in that. With Prometheus, it stands alone to Alien, the way they put it and a good description is there's DNA strands that link the two. But it's a whole new world. I play a guy called David who's an android, so that's why I watched Blade Runner, there's something in those androids."

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Michael Fassbender: 'I hope Prometheus stands up to Alien' Published Monday, Apr 30 2012, 12:37pm EDT | By Mayer Nissim (DIGITAL SPY)

Michael Fassbender has said that he hopes Prometheus stands up to Alien. The upcoming Ridley Scott movie is set in the same universe as his 1979 science fiction horror classic which spawned three sequels and two Predator crossovers.




Fassbender told Elle of the new movie: "I hope it stands up against Alien. "Ridley's amazing, such a nice guy too, there's a real energy and youth to him." He added: "A lot of these directors have a wicked sense of humor. [David] Cronenberg was the same. He spent all the time taking the p*ss." Of his immediate career plans, Fassbender said: "I consciously stopped [making movies] last year. There's so much of me out there at the moment, I wanted to back off a bit. It's like overkill."


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Prometheus Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHcHYisZFLU&feature=player_embedded