Quote from: tmjhur on Mar 24, 2015, 11:50:49 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 24, 2015, 11:06:54 PM
It wasn't the studio. That was Lindelof going "it'd be more awesome without Aliens" and Ridley going "duhhh, sure".
Jon Spaights said in an interview that it came from very high up in Fox to remove the Aliens.
Lindelof being the brown-nose that he is probably just reiterated that it would be a GREAT IDEA!!!!!
The people high up at Fox realized that Spaihts script was a bit of a mess. You had corn all over the place. The whole thing was cheesy. I assume, it was the point, since the direction going in, was to reflect on everything. But they went the other direction quick because they realized that direction wasn't working.
If you actually read the script before Lindelof you would be thanking him. The studio saw what was happening, and perhaps thought if this film bombed it was likely the end of everything they could make from this franchise, and quickly ran and got another screen writer and pulled Ridley aside and probably said something along the lines of "Hey, this is getting out of control, you need to limit some of the stuff going on, or this film will tank. How about, expand the possibilities by removing the Aliens. Set up a new set of creatures, things that you can do more with, so the films will have more to go on." And he probably agreed. And Lindelof said as much about the script before him, it had serious, serious flaws.
Not to say Lindelof's script is a shining monument to screen writing but to figure there's this grand Fox conspiracy to ruin Alien is ridiculous. Fox has money in mind, sure, but that's Capitalism, Capitalism involved in creativity is more the problem in regards to that.
If the remaining fans of Alien are anything to go by, nobody exactly even knows what they want out of an Alien film.