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Both God and the Devil to Appear In ‘Prometheus 2’?!
When Ridley Scott’s Prometheus came to an end, it left us hanging in a big way. Survivor Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) shoots off into space in hopes of finding the Engineers’ home planet, and making them explain to her why they wanted to kill all life on Earth.
Green Lantern‘ writer Michael Green is currently penning the sequel, which is once again shrouded in mystery. While it will stray even further away from Scott’s Alien franchise, Rapace, in an interview with MTV UK, talks through Shaw’s mention state following the events of the first film:
I know that Elizabeth Shaw wants to go to paradise. I say that in the first one. I don’t wanna go back. She can’t go to Earth. There’s nothing left for her there really. She wants to go where they come from, those giants, those creatures. In her head that’s the dark paradise. What’s there? She wants answers. She wants to know. I feel like I’m sharing her curiosity but also her anger.
We all want answers, sister. And as to what kind of antagonists Elizabeth and David the synthetic human will face?
But the big reveal is where she ends up, potentially spoiling a major reveal planned for the sequel. According to Rapace, Shaw may have a run-in with two of the most powerful Gods of them all: God and Satan…
“God, maybe? God or [the] Devil. I don’t know. I don’t know where [Ridley Scott’s] gonna take us but I can’t wait to go there.”
She clearly isn’t sure, and I think it’s the next logical step for the Prometheus films, but it’s definitely a fun thought to try and imagine what Scott’s physical interpretation of God and Satan will be…
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R-Rated ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe’ Director’s Cut Gets New Title and Streaming Premiere Date
After a slight delay, Disney has finally announced a new streaming date for the R-Rated director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe. According to Gizmodo, it’ll also come with a new title.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe Vrach Frankenshteyn begins streaming on Hulu on August 14.
The new cut was first teased in an interview with director Chris Carter on the Fail Better With David Duchovny podcast from last year, where he teased a much scarier movie he intended.
“Now I have a chance to go back and make the scary movie that I always intended to make,” Carter explained last year. “It’s not just doing a Director’s Cut to do a Director’s Cut. It’s really kind of bringing to life something that for me was on the page and never got to the screen.“
The director’s cut of the film was initially set to arrive on Disney+ in June, but quietly disappeared from the schedule without a word. Polygon reported the delay was “due to some last-minute adjustments being made to the film.”
The release’s new “Vrach Frankenshteyn” title certainly suggests those adjustments have been made, likely referring to a Frankensteining of bonus footage.
In the film, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) have been out of the FBI for several years, with Mulder living in isolation and Scully having become a doctor at a Catholic hospital, where she has formed a bond with a critically ill child patient.
When an FBI agent is mysteriously kidnapped, and a former Catholic priest who has been convicted of pedophilia claims to be experiencing psychic visions of the endangered agent, Scully is asked to bring Mulder back to the bureau to consult on the case because of his work with psychics.
The brand new R-rated cut will “faithfully restore the filmmaker’s original vision.”
Look for it on Hulu next month.