Quote from: HuDaFuK on Feb 29, 2016, 12:46:37 PM
I was just pointing out that just because Ridley's behind the wheel, that doesn't mean this is guaranteed to be a great movie.
Of course... But consider this, writing proces for Alien Covenant and other two films began right after Prometheus and lasted for almost
4 years (and this is credible information!). Three writers very familiar with Alien and SF worked on this project. First is Peglan who is a newcomer, and then Green which career began to shine (he wrote Blade Runner, Wolverine 3, remake of Murder on the Orient Express; all those facts suggest that the studio is satisfied by his work), and then came John Logan whose task was to rewrite the screenplay, and that means his work on Alien was to fix all logical and narrative inconsequence and character development, and some tiny story elements... So all this story about screenwriters reassured me to be VERY optimistic about Alien covenant.
P.S. John Logan is avid reader of Paradise Lost!!! Green and Peglan are also very familiar
with Miltons epic and some biblical and mythological stories about creation and fall of men...
I also heard that some philosophical elements of
Matrix movies could be integrated in Covenant plot...(Peglan first draft maybe introduced this idea)
Note thate there are three writers and three movies (Covenant + two more), so the scripts for all of them could be completed... Maybe Fox greenlit all three? If thats the case, Ridley could shoot them very fast! (Last of them could be in theaters somwhere in 2018/9). Maybe they are going to Shoot Covenant + one more... After all shootig will last for 16 weeks, and thats enough for two movies!