Quote from: BonesawT101 on Jan 31, 2016, 04:53:43 PM
I wonder how much else has changed since those quotes posted by the eighth passenger.
That's what Im saying. Im not flaming Scott. That's not my intention. But I find it hard not to get frustrated with the execs on the Alien franchise.
They consistently have the same problem where they Greenlight an ALIEN film, and pay absolutely no ATTENTION to what will come next.
How could they have made PROMETHEUS, with such open-ended questions, and not only considered, but MAPPED out the storyline for the rest of the trilogy?
After seven films with the Alien somehow involved, and all the trouble the lack of direction caused in the past, how unbelievably stupid is that?
This is a billion-dollar franchise. They can't pay a writer another 40g to come up with a long term story-arc? It's incredible that these people don't have this ability to anticipate, at their level. It doesn't derail a production to take an extra month and have some table meetings about where things are going. And this is likely all they've done. Take an extra month after those meetings and pay a writer to develop the whole thing.
This is especially frustrating when I hear Ridley Scott say things like: "James Cameron convinced me to go back to Sci-fi" and "I was inspired by Star Wars..." Well, those respective franchises had enough sense to develop stories for their entire trilogies before getting started...
Why doesn't FOX do this with ALIEN?
And when you have fans get so excited to see BLOMKAMP bring back these beloved characters, that should be a giant flag waving that tells them this is what they need to do.
I don't necessarily have any attachment to Shaw, but I do get really frustrated with inconsistent story lines. And shelving BLOMKAMP's thing, which already pissed me off cause it would ignore the plots of other films, to make this, and then shrug off the plot of one before it... Its registering as messy to me, right now.
I seriously hope FOX and SCOTT know where this 'NEW TRILOGY' is going NOW, and aren't thinking they will figure it out later.