Video of the Day: Peter Weyland at TED 2023

I have a little confession to make: up until yesterday I had never seen Alien or Aliens before. It’s just one of those movie series I never got around to watching. Anyhow I finally saw both Alien and Aliens yesterday; Alien just at home on my tv, Aliens at the Prince Charles cinema as part of a Mass Effect 3 launch (sidenote: seeing the ME3 trailer on a big screen is awesome). It’s great to have finally seen both these movies, and finally understand what all the fuss is about. I liked Alien, I looooved Aliens.

So of course now I’m super excited for Prometheus. And it seems they’ve got some interesting (viral) marketing stuff going on. A couple weeks ago this TED talk appeared set in the year 2023 with Guy Pearce as Peter Weyland:

Are you excited for Prometheus?