Ridley Scott Prometheus: NOT the Alien Prequel Details

Didn't Alien Resurrection not have a script either? I remember Damon Lindelof saying that the cast didn't really get a script, but a series of story boards.

Poor Joss.
 
Lanboy said:
I thought Joss Whedon wrote Alien Ressurection...
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As I said, poor Joss.

"It wasn't a question of doing everything differently, although they changed the ending; it was mostly a matter of doing everything wrong. They said the lines...mostly...but they said them all wrong. And they cast it wrong. And they designed it wrong. And they scored it wrong. They did everything wrong that they could possibly do. There's actually a fascinating lesson in filmmaking, because everything that they did reflects back to the script or looks like something from the script, and people assume that, if I hated it, then they’d changed the script...but it wasn’t so much that they’d changed the script; it’s that they just executed it in such a ghastly fashion as to render it almost unwatchable."
 
alienscollection.com said:
Kit, I may be wrong, but I don't think Fincher ever hired a writer to work on the script - it was always out of his hands.
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Your right, it was one of the heads at Fox who hired another writer to rewrite Giler and Hill's shooting scripts, which reads like a hack job rewrite of Vince Ward's script. Then Giler and Hill found out and that writer was let go. I remember reading that Fincher himself even did some of the rewrites to get some scenes in shootable form because the shooting script was such a mess.

Now back to the Prometheus discussion!
 
119 minutes, by the way, I don't know if anyone mentioned that yet. That's without credits, so figure a "total" length of around 125-128 minutes.

I would have wished for longer (when it comes to this film, there would have been no such thing as "too long"), but it fits in well enough. It's actually slightly longer than both Alien and Blade Runner.
 
Jedi2016 said:
119 minutes, by the way, I don't know if anyone mentioned that yet. That's without credits, so figure a "total" length of around 125-128 minutes.

I would have wished for longer (when it comes to this film, there would have been no such thing as "too long"), but it fits in well enough. It's actually slightly longer than both Alien and Blade Runner.
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Well it sounds like we can count on a sequel, so that'll be a couple more hours anyway. :cool

I hope.
 
Strange Shapes: Finding Fincher said:
So I've saved this voicemail. For a while, I was toying with the idea of putting it on the DVD as an Easter egg until my better judgment kicked in. I doubt Fox's lawyers would have cleared it anyway.
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When I attended the Blade Runner charity event, I had the privilege of asking Charles if he still had that message. He said he lost it when he moved out of his office, or something to that extent. I'm hoping that he still has it and was only telling me that in hopes that I wouldn't ask to hear it, which I would completely agree with. Making all the bonus content for Alien3 was like trying to tame a wild, ravenous dog. No matter how much luck or good intent there was, that troubled dog kept biting him. It wasn't until the BluRay release that the dog finally stopped biting, but still wouldn't give him the luxury of his crowning accomplishment. Fincher's involvement.
 
Noeland said:
Charles is an awesome guy.
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Totally right you are. And I know that many hate me for this, but he was a far greater host than the star attraction. He answered a lot of our questions, stuck around to help present our gifts, thanked each one of the 10 personally, and signed whatever we asked for.

Here's one of the Blade Runner boards I got that I asked him to sign at the last minute.

fromcharles.jpg


Hopefully Ridley is giving him a ton of stuff for him to work on for Prometheus.
 
Jeyl said:
As I said, poor Joss.

"It wasn't a question of doing everything differently, although they changed the ending; it was mostly a matter of doing everything wrong. They said the lines...mostly...but they said them all wrong. And they cast it wrong. And they designed it wrong. And they scored it wrong. They did everything wrong that they could possibly do. There's actually a fascinating lesson in filmmaking, because everything that they did reflects back to the script or looks like something from the script, and people assume that, if I hated it, then they’d changed the script...but it wasn’t so much that they’d changed the script; it’s that they just executed it in such a ghastly fashion as to render it almost unwatchable."
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The good that came out of Alien Resurrection is that the crew of Firefly was kind of based on what Joss WANTED to do with AR. So there's something positive about the movie.
 
1) Learn how to do computer (An actual quote from my mother..)
2) find out how I can view such show
3) Watch this on Wednesday
 
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