Dante Harper receives writer credit on Alien: Covenant. As most of you know by now, the upcoming green-band trailer for Alien: Covenant leaked earlier today. It’s being taken down now but it’ll be out officially tomorrow for your enjoyment (and it was a good one!)
Something of interest in this latest trailer was that both Jack Paglen and Michael Green no longer have writer credits but in their place are original Edge of Tomorrow scribe Dante Harper and John Logan.
Dante Harper is perhaps best known as the initial writer for the film that became Edge of Tomorrow. Since that original spec script, Harper has worked on numerous projects including The Forever War back when Ridley Scott was attached to it.
Dante Harper receives writer credit on Alien: Covenant
Jack Paglen and Michael Green both receive “Story By” credits though. Paglen wrote the initial script after Fox reportedly struggled to find a direction to take Prometheus 2. In March 2014 it was reported that Michael Green (who also wrote Blade Runner 2049) would be providing rewrites of Paglen’s script, taking it a more Alien direction.
In November 2015, when the film was known as Alien: Paradise Lost, it was reported that John Logan was revising the script, taking it in a direction inspired by John Milton’s poem of the same title.
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Its very similar to Alien 3 in that regard with the Story by Vincent Ward credit and Larry Ferguson getting a co-writer credit, because Giler and Hill used some of his stuff, when they did their many rewrites
Is it possible - and I know this is weird - that Harper wrote the prologue and they are only crediting him because they used the prologue in the trailer? Or is the prologue officially part of the movie, now?
Hopefully four writers and a bunch of reshoots and recuts were good for the film...
I still haven't seen Rogue One. I'll watch it when it hits netflix (as star wars is on canadian netflix)
Exactly. A recent example is Gary Whitta, who wrote the first script for Rogue One but only has a story credit in the final film.
God I hope Ghost in the Shell flops so any American attempt at AKIRA gets axed.
Also it was the Venom one according to IMDB.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0363837/
Or at least one of them turned in a complete script. Hopefully like engineers it leaks to the internet (though engineers to me is an even bigger mess than prometheus).
"Story by
There is a common misconception that a "story by" credit may be given to a person who simply has the story idea for a film or television program. This is never the case, as all writing credits are for actual writing. A written story document or treatment, or in some cases, a complete script are required to receive "Story by" credit. A writer may be accorded a "Story by" credit, only, despite having written a complete script if, for example, a subsequent writer does a "page one rewrite" that entitles him/her to sole "Screenplay by" credit. For theatrical motion pictures, only, the first writer on an original screenplay is titled to no less than shared "Story by" credit. This is known as the Irreducible Story Minimum.[19]"
Well 2 of them only have a "Story By" credit, which implies not much of their material is in the final film.
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/spiderman-spinoff-venom-screenwriter-1201723111/
Also, I had no idea Harper worked on the Forever War film. I also find that funny since Jon Spaihts (Prometheus writer back when it was more Alien like) now writing it.
What does it mean...
Maybe he wrote those reshoots... or what?