Step inside the pitch meeting that led to Prometheus!
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The Alien franchise is a beloved horror and sci-fi staple, so naturally Hollywood tries to breathe new life into it every few years. In 2012, Ridley Scott made his return to the universe of Alien with Prometheus-- a not-quite prequel that follows a space crew as they deal with some scary alien threats called Engineers.
Prometheus does raise some questions though. Like why haven’t the crew been briefed on their mission until AFTER they’ve been in cryo-sleep for several years? Why does everybody take off their helmets in an alien cave? How did they get lost in the cave with amazing mapping technology? Why did they suddenly want to touch that horrifying alien snake thing? Why did David spike Charlie’s drink? What was the point of Weyland plot twist? Why was that Engineer chasing Elizabeth at the end?
To answer all these questions and more, step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to Prometheus! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
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This movie is what happens when you fire all the writers
FYI, Ryan -- Recently, quite of a few of the pitch meetings (eg, Prometheus, Transformers, Point Break) have been missing from the "Super Easy, Barely an Inconvenience" playlist.
This movie is just one huge plot hole XD
You have reruined it for me!
Would love to see you do Roadhouse.
People seeing me watch this video: “you admire it dont you” Me : “ I admire its purity”
This guy has the perfect face for this bit.
"Oh, very bad at running away from things! 😁" Uh, they were actually top of their class at the Prometheus School of Running Away from Things, sir.
You have an alien movie for me? "Yes sir I *kind of* do"
Oh yeah 🤣 I remember how crazy this movie was.
What I love is that the heroine who blithely takes off her helmet on an alien planet because "there's oxygen!" is established to have had a parent die of Ebola.
I need a wandavision pirch meeting the day after the season ends. That's next Saturday, BTW. You got this. Super easy barely an inconvenience, right ?
THIRD COUSINS! WHAT AN EPIC PLOT TWIST!
this movie was so bad i completely forgot it existed until now.
3rd cousins, huh?
Definitely a movie worth roasting.
A Coco Pitch Meeting would be tight!
The best part of this movie was Noomi's feet. 😃
Please do a Pitch Meeting for the South Park Movie... I would love to see how Producer Guy reacts to the concept!
This movie is great.
How about doing the new Tom Hanks movie, The News of the World? Or, since you've covered most of the Marvel movies, doing a Pitch Meeting for the Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno TV series, The Incredible Hulk? That would be tight! 😁
When I was in the theaters and the robot surgery machine refused to perform an abortion, I lost my mind with laughter. My buddy joined in and then the few guys behind us completely erupted in laughs. Probably the funniest moment in scifi history.
Do a pitch meeting for Willow!
How about HANNIBAL RISING and EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING?
Third cousin?! Ooooohhh twists that don't change anything are *TIGHT*
Pitch Meetings is better than 98% of the movies that Ryan nitpicks. Change my mind.
"third cousin" that explains why their faces look so similar
Wait, so according to the New Mutants Pitch Meeting, Screen Writer Guy and Producer Guy are in love, but now according to this one, they are third cousins?! *Sweet Home Alabama intensifies*
This third cousin bit was funny
The third cousin twist changes everything ! 😦
I think they are trying to tell you the real history of our existence. That the bannished fallen stars/angels made hybrids (giants from fairytales) and they did the dirty work for Humans. The giants got betrayed by the humans in the past history. There was a pact, humans broke it. Research Flat Earth, for the world can never be a spinning ball of water with liquid stone fire inside. That is an impassibility and therefore a Lie.
Crazy Stories. Doesn't look like anything to me.
Wow, lots of meaningless loose ends in this movie. Also, nepotism!
I'd love to see you do "as above so below". Just a thought. Watch it - it's hilariously bad.
Man I love this movie. Ridley Scott is a fantastic director. I also love to see Ryan George do a pitch meeting about any movie ever, even though he brings up everything I never thought about during any entire film
After going through the comments, I'm pretty sure I am the only person who liked this movie
They're so bad at runing away from things, despite having their own school for it.
Still a 10/10 movie
I laughed so hard
Please do a Meet the Robinsons Video!!!!!
Ah, the Prometheus School of Running Away From Things... Good times.
this entire movie summed up: hmmm what
Hey, please do Alien Covenant. It somehow makes even less sense. Like that's possible.
Don't even have to watch to already know I'm going to enjoy this. Man this movie was a train wreck.
YEEEEAH! This WHOLE time!
Daft Punk just broke up and saying goodbye is difficult- please do a Pitch Meeting for one of their bizarrely esoteric full length music videos like “Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem,” “Electroma,” or “Tron: Legacy”
God this movie sucked lol
Watching pitch meetings about movies you've never seen is tight
Could you do a video about the movie: Sphere? Thanks.
Seriously one of the dumbest stories ever put on screen.
Honestly Alien Vs Predator contributed far more to the Alien lore than whatever this was
Hi Ryan... Love your work... Can we have a pitch meeting of Seven or maybe Saw?
This sounds like an _awful_ movie.
Could you do the conjuring series
There was actually a scene of a young Guy Pearce on a 2020-something TED talk show, which was the only good thing in the movie so of course it’s only natural to delete it.
3rd cousin? That explains why all the scripts got accepted 🤣
The braindead plots of Prometheus and Alien: Covenant prove that Ridley Scott is overrated, while Tony Scott's films are underrated. Next time you want to make another Alien sequel, rehire James Cameron!
"genital space cobra" *noted for title of possible metal album*
A Knights tale would be a hilarious pitch meeting
Ehhh... the reason the Engineer wants to destroy life on Earth and chases Elizabeth is pretty clear. No points for making it sound like stuff that gets explained doesn’t get explained.
I finally understand the cinemasin joke now
The prometheus school of running away from things...
It's like adding a needless fact to the lore of a series: not needed but thanks, anyway.
This Pitch Meeting was better than the actual movie. How many millions were budgeted for each?
I fu#&ing hated this movie so much lol
"So it's gonna be like a big reveal later? 😃" is in the running for a new recurring catchphrase 😂🤣
They should’ve just named this movie “unclear”
I guess casting Guy Pearce as a 104 year old person makes a certain demographic feel not as old.
You should honestly do a pitch meeting about alien: covenant cuz thats a sequel to this
You two are very funny men
Wait, I thought that there was a bit of a romantic thing being hinted at between Scriptwriter Guy and Movie Producer Guy. Like, it's no Luke/Leia in terms of, "um, wtf?" but this twist reveal is still kinda squick.
3rd cousins? Mind. Blown.
"So they die" "Sure I bet they do" Wasn't expecting to laugh more than "cold lets you know when it's cold"... but here we are.
Hey you two look exactly the same, HOW???? One of them : Because Me : It works!! Yeah Understood, super easy barely an inconvenience.
I just watched this without having seen the actual movie and realised that it was a very bad idea. Now I really don't want to watch the actual movie anymore. This was entertaining tho ^^
Unclear
I remember when I saw this movie back in the day it was on theatre and the session me and my friend bought the ticket for 11 pm was empty (I wondered why back then) So before going to the movies we ate some burguer kings, man that heavy belly and 30 minutes of this crap movie was enough for a knockout and we both slept! LOL and we just woke up after credits. we looked at each other and said: did you understand it? LOL until today this is a inner joke between us
A lot of us saw the third cousin thing coming. The family resemblance is so obvious.
Wait.... did he... did he say the thing?
Guy Pearce said in an interview that they originally were going to show Weyland when he was younger and that's why he was cast for the role.
Did he say, "Draw-yings" in the beginning at 0:14
Do a pitch for rocketman.
K this movie definitely has PROBLEMS, but I've always been fond of it despite how messy it feels. On the same playing field as Alien? Pff nooo, but you could say the same of almost every Alien sequel/prequel. I will say that a lot of the "holes" people complain about in this movie are very easily explained if you pay attention, but yes it's poorly edited and could have used at least a few scene rewrites. But I think we'd all be much kinder to Prometheus as a flawed but ambitious movie if the misleading marketing and subsequent negative response against it didn't cause Fox to pressure R Scott to suddenly ditch everything they were building up to in favor of a comparatively unoriginal Alien Covenant movie. Covenant did to Prometheus what the Last Jedi did to Force Awakens, made it an impossible mess of a franchise.
The two that got lost not only left first, but one of them *brought and operated* the mapping equipment.
Big reveal? No. The Movie.
I still love this movie
Dude, on EARTH if I saw a brand 'new' snake I'd take a step back. How are you gonna get that close to an alien snake on an alien planet as a scientist?
Actually the third cousin thing is a twist that makes senses it explains why most of these movies were created ( off the record. yes I know it’s the same guy blah blah blah)
As a fan of how awesome the original Space Jockey looked, this movie bastardizing such a creepy and unique design really pissed me off
too funny :D
"So should I keep going?"
And here I am, still liking that film, rip me.
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Prometheus was hot garbage from beginning to end.
Please do pitch meeting of THE OFFICE
I never noticed that the cave painting was Dabbing. Huh. Aliens dabbing is TIGHT
Weird canonical crushes on your third cousin is tight!
Can you pitch Ghost in the Shell?
Pitch meeting for Birdemic: Shock and Terror please?
Had to subscribe. Funny. Really.
Ryan George is a national treasure. These videos are so consistently hilarious.