Quote from: escroto on May 29, 2012, 07:14:53 AM
The only thing that makes me uneasy is lindelof's involvement in the film. Man that can not be any good, I can tell
I don't know why you are concerned with it? It's not like he conceived the movie. From all the interviews i got the impression that Lindelof and Spaihts just put to paper what Ridley wanted. Nothing more, nothing less. The only thing Lindelof brought to the table i think was the tone of the movie, the air of mistery. Every other aspect of it was decided by the main man. I like Lindelof, but i can't give him credit for anything cause i don't believe he had a real imput. The only one who deserves credit i think it's Spaihts but not for his brilliant writing, but more for his fresh concepts that he brings to the table, cause i think he came up with the giant head inside the temple, the goo and what it does,and stuff like that.
I imagine Ridley just telling them: ''Right Jon so i want a movie with space jockeys, and existential questions. so you write me a story about a connection between humans and this jockeys based on all this Chariots Of The Gods. Then humans go to this planet and they find this strange temple/laboratory/depository. I want them to find some creatures there, some cool things. We got to put some connections with alien in there, but discrete.Then we kill most of the crew, we will definetely have a strong female lead, a android wich must act like A,B,C. we will leave this and this unanswered for a sequel so the ending must be exactly this one. Now Jon i have already worked with my artist on how things look in the movie, so here, this is what the pyramid on the alien planet look like, these are the engineers and their creatures, see if you have something to add, tell them what you need.''
And after that we got Lindelof: ''Hey Damon, so we have this movie but it leads directly into Alien, and i don't want that, i've talkied to the studio execs and we decided on a new franchise, with epic scope. A straight up prequel won't do. Now shift some things around, write some character interractions, cause the other guy is lacking in that department, and make sure everything has a air of mistery about it and write a cliffhanger cause wee need a sequel after this''.
And boom Prometheus was born