That's why this article is good: it clearly states that LIndelof asked Scott if it was a good idea to be over ambiguous after he was lambasted for his over ambiguous writing in Lost and Scott clearly told him to do so . The article clearly indicates this.
There was an online article where Spaihts indicated that he felt very sorry for Lindelof because he was given very hard task. Many have criticised Prometheus for trying to be too many things and as a result not succeeding at any of them. That's the problem Lindelof had.
And most of those changes came very late very close to production.
I have always wondered if Ridley just pulled up his shoulders and said:
Meh that's all folks and went to the next film project not too bothered.
It feels like no one really cared.
Personally I liked the way Lindelof spoke to his audience in his script. IMHO he is a good writer.
Spaihts had so many mind blowing ideas that hopefully will be used one day.
I know no one sets out to make a bad movie.
It still feels like : I always wanted to do that unused stuff I story? Uhm ....let's talk about that later. Like there was a bit of unhappiness from Scott with regards to Completely removing the xenos eggs facehuggers etc.
Anyways the moment of truth is at hand as we will see if a 180 degree turnaround was made about the original direction the series was supposed to take as the first official trailed has been revealed and released to journalists.
I remain cautious ....
Quote from: Ingwar on Dec 05, 2016, 07:27:50 PM
Final question remains: Who f*cked up? Spaiths? Lindelof? Scott? Studio? Or was it a collective failure?
That was the thing that also killed me right from the start: to whom do you lay the blame? Not for the sake of it but to learn not to do so again . But this thread and the article it links to does answer many questions.
For the most part I think Scott had the most say although I believe there was some studio involvement but as to exact nature of that. - dunno.