Collider recently spoke to Damon Lindelof, writer of Prometheus, at a Star Trek Into Darkness press event where he said he would not be writing the sequel:
““The idea of building a sequel to it—from the ground up this time—with Ridley is tremendously exciting. But at the same time, I was like, “Well that’s probably going to be two years of my life.” I can’t do what J.J. [Abrams] does. I don’t have the capability. I’m usually very single-minded creatively. I can only be working on one thing at a time. So I said to him, “I really don’t think I could start working on this movie until I do this other stuff. And I don’t know when the other stuff is going to be done.” And he was like, “Well, okay, it’s not like I asked you anyways.” He and I are on excellent terms and it was a dream come true to work with him.”
I’m sure this will please many as Damon Lindelof is often held responsible for some of the failings of the film. For the full interview click here.
Agreed. For those of us who were terribly dissapointed with Prometheus, Ridley Scott bears as much responsibility as Lindelof. If the buck doesn't stop with the Director, where does it stop?
The character of David that most seemed to enjoy seem to be most lindelof doing. Spaiht just had his as an awful Bond villain. Plus, if anything the movie had just too many character to handle in the allotted screen time. Someone will toss aliens back as a rebuttal but it is easier to characterize a bunch of military jocks spouting one liners then an entire crew of scientist with few military men among them because of the established military stereotypes (hard ass drill sgt, young leader type, the coward turned hero, etc).
Go check his credits.
It certainly needs better writers but I am not sure whether having Scott more hands on is such a good idea.
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Won't surprise me if they did a Prometheus Reboot.
I can write half a dozen five page scripts in a week -- that's 60 pages. Sweet.
I couldn't write 60 pages of a feature length script in that time if I expected it to be any good. Same number of pages, but very different disciplines.
QFT.
It's like trying to say that because you've done X amount of running in your life, you can suddenly get up and run a marathon of the same equal amount of running.
No, try again - it IS irrelevant. Whatever Lindelof is working on in favour of committing two years to Prometheus 2 doesn't make any difference to anything.
Bottom line is, he's not doing it and has explained why. Get over it.
1. You dont tell a poster what you he/she meant when he made a post because you, as far as well all know, are not psychic so you have zero idea about it. So unless you are going to reveal your mutant power to us....i suggest you stop with this idea.
2. ( for the second time )The thread is about Lindelof and about him not writing the sequel to Prometheus so who would EVER use an example about a total unknown writer trying to send in a script as if it was his first time shopping one out instead of a writer who already has the job? It just doesnt make ANY sense whatsoever.
3. I was replying to some one who SPECIFICALLY mentions something from the article which is talking about Lindelof so the discussion is OBVIOUSLY about that subject.
If it's not relevant why then did you make a post saying i ignored those things when i didnt?
You are the one here digging some weird whole that is not making any sort of sense.
Lindelof wrote more than one episode per season. So he easily breaks the movie script page number.
And all this is saying is how much of a sucky writer he is.
I liked it Chris, I liked it!
I've said it before, I'll say it again, I think Lindelof is great as an IDEAS man. But as a writer he is poor on the character/dialogue/plotting front.
Lindelof wouldn't know a character arc if his grandmother stepped out of a wormhole and burned his typewriter.
Goddamn, reading am hard!
Because it's irrelevant.
But keep on digging.
I mean, how clueless can you be?
I quoted you, and nowhere in that quote did you mention Lindleof at all. Do I need to quote you again?
You do realize that my response was because you make it seem that all a writer needs to do, any writer needs to do, is to just send in a script and wait for a response. That's all I was responding to, your quote had nothing to do with Lindleof, so don't say that it does. You were making a generalization of any and all writers in that quote of yours.
The thread is about Lindelof not writing the next Prometheus movie............... why would i be discussing ANYTHING but the position Lindelof is in as a writer?
No we weren't. Not on what my response was about. You said:
Now tell me where in that quote you even mentioned Lindleof. I wasn't talking about him yesterday night, and you sure as hell weren't talking about him specifically in that quote.
Lindelof worked on Lost and wrote a whole mess of episodes. Let's stop acting like this is a monumental task, if writing a screenplay was that difficult TV wouldnt exist the way it does now.
HA! this is funny! Cause you conveniently ignored that i ask what he is working on that needs so much work in my first post here.
Dude, we are not talking about a kid that just graduated from Uni and is trying to get his script about aliens to be made. This is Lindelof... he got the job.
And is hence why I made my comment about his pseudo politician diplomatic speech about not wanting to spend another year of his life writing the sequel.
He's a P.R man first, a writer second.
You're Damon Lindelof right?
Don't you remember the terrible exposition, CSI going inside the body moments, awful stereotypical characters and horrible pacing?
How could it be a terrible script? Ridley Scott went on to direct it either way. You don't see Ridley taking on shit scripts like INdiana Jones and the Crystal Skull into a movie. The majority of Fans loved Pormetheus and thought the ORIGINAL script was terrible. Then some dude fixed it to be a better script to be filmed.
I think its clear that the majority of Alien fans dislike other casual alien fans who happen to be exaggerating their opinions in their posts.
Or here is a crazy idea, the movie wasn't shit, it's a commercial success, it has 74 % critic approval rate, and the studio is pleased about the movie, so much that they will make a sequel.
here is another crazy idea, maybe he doesn't give a f**k about what the loud minority does on the internet because of the above reasons. Maybe he is also busy with his new project 1952,writing and producing it. Maybe he is also busy with his new 3 year agreement with Warner Bros to develop new shows and making The Leftovers for HBO
But now that he left, i hope someone will stop mr. Scott and his editor for ever entering the editing room of the sequel. That would be nice
I.E. it's his Marketing/Political/Diplomatic abilities swinging strong.
It's all code for, the movie was shit, people hate me and I don't want to take it on again.
He can't say that though so he has to spin some yarn about it being a rewrite and a year of his life (which is true) but ultimately I think he wrote an inferior movie, I think he knows that, maybe the studio think that, majority of the fans think that.
All in all though I'd say the failings of this movie were down to studio interference pushing the writer and director in a certain direction.
Anyway that's how I see it.
Which is of course, bullshit. Plenty of scripts get sent in that people never even get a response to. If you're lucky, and the script reader passes on your script as one that has to be read, then and only then will it ever even be read by whoever is in charge of the script reader. And if they like it, they might end up responding, because even a producer or whatever who looks at the script is in no way a guarantee that you will ever get a response back.
It's nowhere near as easy as you put it.
There's so much more I didn't add here, like trying to get an agent for one, or how f**king difficult it is to even get in at all in the film business with your first script. There's so god damn much that is blocking the writer from even reaching their goal.
Why bother? You apparently know how it all works.
Not to mention conveniently ignoring Lindelof saying he can only focus on one thing at a time and Prometheus 2 would be a 2 year commitment.
Some writers also work on multiple projects at once. Didn't Cameron take on the Rambo: First Blood II job at the same time he got the job to write Aliens? So writing scripts is a process and hopefully each time you do a rewrite it gets better. Or not.
And how many difficult and laborious rewrites do you think they draft before reaching something close to a shootable script?
It's not as easy as quickly scribbling out a draft to hand in so you can spend the rest of production dancing in fields whilst waiting for the pay cheque to arrive. And from what I've heard and read it's these types of films with many different people in varying positions of power to appease, that can prove hardest for a working writer. Hell, it's difficult enough when you're writing for yourself.