Quote from: NecronomIV on Jul 02, 2022, 03:55:24 AMHi,
I came across this purported script for Prometheus, and it doesn't appear to match any of the ones in the Downloads section.
It has a character called Murdow, calls the planet Zeus, and at one point makes reference to a sketch by Scott, and features some rather heavy-handed narration by Shaw. It also has Shaw shoot Vickers!
It also has some spelling mistakes , but that might be transcription.
Is this "new"? Can anyone authenticate this script? Or is it a known piece of fan-fiction?
This was a fake inspired by a "speculation plot summary" made in 2011 by a guy from the IMDB forums IN the IMDB forums, god rest their soul. He explicitly said it was just playing around with what he ïmagined" what the movie would be about after the initial cast sheets were revealed, but people reposted his short treatment all over the web passing it as a leak, and started getting referenced to by clickbait blogs to the point it fell into the Wikipedia feedback loop: big name clickbait news website references the fake leak, Wikipedia references it, other page references Wikipedia, Wikipedia references that other page, and any evidence to the contrary in social media is dismissed by Wiki editors because they're "not valid sources" compared to movie news websites.
This specific fake was floating around shortly before the first trailer came out (the one that started with "A king has his reign...") because "Mudow" was supposed to be Ford (Kate Dickie) in the final film, her real name being revealed in said trailer. The poor spelling led me to believe this was a troll script made to pester the people trying to disprove the rumors spawned from the IMDB forums, which typically outed themselves whenever they made reference to "Mudow".