How many of you are dressing up tonight as characters from the film? Anyone going asthe Deacon? 

Even though it has been a while since we last posted, and even though the new tagline for the film is Questions Will Be Answered, there are still a couple of unanswered questions in regards to the viral:

What is this CLASSIFIED page on ProjectPrometheus that we are still missing? A mishap on behalf of Weyland (as there are quite a few pages not linked there)…

The third video clip on the Project Prometheus Careers page - what’s up with that? We all thought it was going to be released in anticipation of 10.11.12., at least, as you will read below, before that plan got shelved…

This was from Fast Co.Create’s profile of the entire campaign (our recaps of which are under the Past Investment Opportunities tag) back when the movie came out. Now, what happened was, when the US Blu-ray/DVD release of the film was originally planned for 10.11.12. - October 11, 2012 by the American dating system, when Weyland Corp was incorporated, everything was building up perfectly to that point, until Fox pushed the release date to October 9, deactivating the What is 10.11.12. site (which did kind-of act as a glorified promo for the Blu-ray special features), and replaced it with this. Now, I personally really don’t think what Ignition meant by the “something new [that] happens” was just the original Blu-ray release date. The folks at Prometheus-Movie.com say that there is something definitely happening on November 10, 2012, what Europeans consider to be 10.11.12., but only time will tell what…

So, what do you think of all this? Did Weyland abandon the viral ship or is there something else afoot? Let us know…also we have a new Google+ page so add us to your circles!

I am a law only for my kind. I am no law for all…

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

T.E. Lawrence, eponymously of Arabia but very much an Englishman, favored pinching a burning match between his fingers to put it out. When asked by his colleague, William Potter, to reveal his trick; how is it he so effectively extinguished the flame without hurting himself whatsoever, Lawrence just smiled and said: “The trick, Potter, is not minding it hurts.”

The fire that danced at the end of that match was a gift from the titan Prometheus. A gift that he stole from the gods, who were terrified of what we might do with it were it to fall into our hairy little paws. When Prometheus was caught, and bought to justice for his theft, the gods, well, you might say they…overreacted a little.

The poor man was tied to a rock as an eagle ripped through his belly and ate his liver over and over, day after day, ad infinitum. All because he gave us fire: our first true piece of technology.

Fire.

Such a very long time ago. Which begs the question: what have we done with it?

100,000 BC: stone tools.

4,000 BC: the wheel.

800 BC: sun dial.

Ninth century AD: gunpowder. Bit of a game-changer, that one.

1441: the printing press, only slightly less impactful.

Nineteenth century: steam engine, railway; eureka, the Lightbulb!

Twentieth century: the automobile, television, nuclear weapons, spacecraft, internet.

Twenty-first century: biotech, nanotech, fusion and fission and M-theory; and that was just the first decade.

We are now 3 months into the year of our Lord, 2023. At this moment in our civilisation  we are on the verge of terraforming planets undiscovered just a decade ago. We have identified the genetic chain of events behind 98 percent of cancers. A chain we have broken. Effectively curing them. We can create cybernetic individuals, who, in just a few short years, will be completely indistinguishable from us.

Which leads to an obvious conclusion:

We are the gods now.

…I haven’t been struck down, I’ll take that to mean I’m right.

We wield incredible power. The power to transform; to destroy and to create again. The question, of course, before us is what the hell are we supposed to do with this power; or more importantly, one should ask, what are we allowed to do with this power?

The answer to that, my friends, is nothing.

Rules, restrictions, laws, ethical guidelines…all but forbidding us from moving forwards! Well where were the ethics during the Arabian conflicts? Why are there rules preventing us from feeding impoverished cultures? How is there a law that states: if we build a man from wires and metal; a man who will never grow old, who will never feel the heat of a star, or the cold of the Moon, how is the creation of such an incredible individual considered unnatural?

The answer to all these questions is simple. These rules exsist because the people who created them were afraid of what would happen if they didn’t.

Well I am not afraid!

For those of you who know me, you will be aware by now that my ambition is unlimited. You know that I will settle for nothing short of greatness, or I will die trying.

For those of you do not yet know me, allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Peter Weyland. And if you’ll indulge me, I’d like to change the world.

In preparation for the relaunch of Project Prometheus on 10.11.12, say welcome to the brand-new Weyland Corp. Investor Portal (formerly the Weyland Investor Blog).

Along with the brand new site at - you’re on it right now - http://weylandinvestors.com  - we have launched a new Twitter account at @weylandinvestor (the 15-character username limit didn’t allow the ‘s’ in ‘investors’ unfortunately), so go ahead and give it a follow!

This site has been quiet for a while, so let’s update with the latest news regarding Prometheus:

• The special features of the upcoming DVD/Blu-ray release have been classified by the BBFC, including the brand new viral video Transmission, and a special feature on the early ‘leaked’ script, titled The Case of the Fanfic Fake. More information at The Weyland Chronicles.
• And the big one - a sequel to Prometheus has been confirmed to be in-development by 20th Century Fox in an statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

Fox confirms to THR that Scott and the studio actively are pushing ahead with a follow-up (stars Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace are signed) and are talking to new writers because Prometheus co-scribe Damon Lindelof might not be available. “Ridley is incredibly excited about the movie, but we have to get it right. We can’t rush it,” says Fox president of production Emma Watts, who also has overseen the successful reboots of the X-Men and Planet of the Apes franchises. A Prometheus sequel would be released in 2014 or 2015.

And as we know, the mysterious date of 10.11.12, in case you haven’t noticed, is the start date of the New York Comic-Con, so closer to the time this site will bring you more details regarding what might be going down…

So, all the best, and enjoy!

Your fellow Investor, out.

First off, Happy Independence Day to all of you followers in the US!

So, as you may have noticed, I haven’t posted for a while. It has become quite quiet with news, apart from the fact that SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON is NEXT WEEK, so Investors should keep tabs on http://www.projectprometheus.com/sdcc/ over the next few days for more info about what exactly Weyland Corp are planning to do there.

But first, I would like to present a FULL RECAP of the viral campaign for Prometheus. As you can see, it isn’t over yet, and will probably carry on into the DVD/Blu-ray release, and also potential sequels…

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