Prometheus has a run-time of...

Viscal

1 hour and 59 minutes (without the credits). Apparently according to this: http://youtu.be/rua8WuG9x9E

Thanks to ZsoltiDarkoo for the info!

EDIT: And according to terrapinbear's find: http://www.silence-action.com/2012/04/apercu-prometheus-science-fiction-prestige/#more-5573

EDIT2: 17 minute extra footage bit is incorrect. Thanks to Bugblatter for the correction!

EDIT3:
The entire Q&A session and w/o the French translation voice-over

At 31:45, Ridley talks about the 17-minutes of footage he removed from an earlier work of his. He then immediately mentions Prometheus being 1 hour and 59 minutes.

(thanks to invictus005 for the link *no joke*)

terrapinbear

Mezeridith Wickerz!

terrapinbear

Run this link through Google translate to get the running time of 119 minutes

ummester

17 mins is a lot of footage - haven't seen those kind of cuts in Sci Fi since Verhoven.

Wonder if different countries will get different releases?

Terraformer

Those 17 minutes are probably the most important minutes of the film.

Viscal

good catch Terrapinbear. Now on to the lamentation of it not having a longer runtime

Terraformer

does this revelation mean we will be getting Ridley's watered down version officially now?

Viscal

if watered down you mean less violence/gore/etc... run time is independent from that.

Alien's running time is 117 minutes. Close. But Ridley Scott never claimed that movie to be EPIC in scale

Viscal

according to a (presumably) a native French speaker on IMDb or someone who fully understands the French Q&A:

In the French Press conference, he said he now found the perfect pace, it's tight but that's how he wanted it to be. In his mind 1h59 min was enough (without credits).

Terraformer

Viscal said:
according to a (presumably) a native French speaker on IMDb or someone who fully understands the French Q&A:

In the French Press conference, he said he now found the perfect pace, it's tight but that's how he wanted it to be. In his mind 1h59 min was enough (without credits).

thanks for clearing that up viscal. :D. yeah it sounds more promising now.

Tallgeese

Eh, I was hoping it'd be a bit longer but I don't really mind. I wonder how he's going to fit everything in without going too fast/too slow.

EDIT: Just wondering, is there a version of the French press conference that doesn't have the translator speaking?

ramp_closing

Viscal said:
good catch Terrapinbear. Now on to the lamentation of it not having a longer runtime

Tears beard and gnashes teeth.

kjohnson26

Get one of those frame interpolators for slowing down the film and you could watch the thing for a day or a week if you wanted to.

Robotpo

Wonder if the "Beginning of Time" sequence is still in, and if it is/was really 15 minutes, or if that was a misquote/interpretation. If the prologue concerning the Engineers is really 15 minutes long, than the actual narrative itself (with our human cast) will be only 104 minutes... :(

Carne

Hi, new here. Finally signed up. Anyways:

Is there a chance some countries will get longer versions? In the UK they often edit and cut movies to make it fit a certain rating. Like they cut 6 seconds (although not ver much) from The Hunger Games because of violence.

Terraformer

beginning of time = 15 minutes
at the Q/A they saw 25 minutes (correct me if im wrong) of pre-landing so thats 40 minutes.
so that leaves us with 1 hour and 20 minutes on the planet

Vodi

Welcome, Carne

The Hunger Games was cut in Britain so that it fit with the 12A certificate.

As yet I aren't sure what certificate Prometheus will be in British cinemas, but I'm hoping nothing is cut.

Keep in mind that The Hunger Games is definitely aimed at a younger market.

Charism

1:59.... bit short, but ... not bad. ; ) I'm satisfied.

kjohnson26

Rats, there goes the Shaw and Vickers hot lesbian sex scene.

terrapinbear

Charism said:
1:59.... bit short, but ... not bad. ; ) I'm satisfied.

And 17 minutes of deleted scenes for the DVD/Blu-Ray Director's Cut!

Tallgeese

After rethinking it, I'm actually somewhat optimistic. After watching the original "Alien" again, the movie seems (to me, at least) to be quite long. Seeing as how Prometheus is going to have a slightly longer run time, it should be manageable.

egosheep

IIRC we only saw reports that said 15 minutes were shot at the waterfall. Where has it been confirmed that there is a 15 min "beginning of time" sequence? We have no idea if that's the case, who knows how much of that 15 mins made the final cut.

tifosi77

ummester said:
17 mins is a lot of footage - haven't seen those kind of cuts in Sci Fi since Verhoven.
Wonder if different countries will get different releases?

17 minutes is about how much was cut from "Aliens" to make the 2-hour running time.

MartinRoby

And many of those cuts in Aliens were (to my mind) quite okay. I never really liked the whole Jorden/Hadley's Hope sequence. The theatrical cut left more to the imagination. But Ripley's daughter (and maybe the sentry guns) should've stayed in.

I think 2 hours is a-okay. I don't think that Scott would cut out 17 minutes, if they were really essential to the plot.

My beef is with the possible (probable?) PG13 rating. If there's an R-cut, I wanna see it it theatrically, not at home.

Tallgeese

MartinRoby said:
And many of those cuts in Aliens were (to my mind) quite okay. I never really liked the whole Jorden/Hadley's Hope sequence.

I agree with you on that one. I really didn't like the Hadley's hope scene. It seemed pretty cheesy (especially Newt yelling into the camera lol).

Bugblatter

Hey, the bit about 17 minutes being cut off is incorrect. The part you're referring to is where Ridley talks about alternate cuts of films throughout his career, and he says "I think there was only one time where I personally cut a film too short, where I cut off about 17 minutes. But with this film we have a very good cut." I'm pretty sure he's talking about Kingdom of Heaven as the film he cut too short. Then he goes continues to talk about Prometheus saying that there are still a couple minutes left to finalize, but right now they're at about 119 minutes, which he believes is "what this film should be."

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