Jon Spaihts' Original PROMETHEUS Screenplay (ALIEN: ENGINEERS) Now Available To Read Online

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Someone needs to tell Damon Lindelof that there is a difference between ambiguity and just not answering anything.

I started reading this 20 minutes ago. Really good. Only a few pages in, though. Haven't even seen this film yet, lol.

wow.Just got done with it.so good . Can't believe we got what we got. No one takes their helmet off either.lol. Can't imagine what made them go the other route.

david makes more sense in this version. the holloway infection makes more sense. there wasn't a retarded biologist in this one.seriously. good read.

way cooler description of how the ship flies and why they wear the suit...gone is Zamphir and his mighty flute driven space ship

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Yes, there were many ploy holes. No, they were not answered. The sequel is NOT highly anticipated.

@Splenda it gets better. I love that everyone had been cast when reading it. Made the story come to life! I feel like I finally got to see the Prometheus I was promised. Shit was good

but at least her operation lasted longer than 10 min. there are cons to the script but it's not like the dialog couldn't have evolved during shooting. As for it being an alien dupe...really? It has the same story structure as prometheus but at least tied to alien. Prometheus wanted to be tied to alien but was too cool to actually say so...so they just throw in the same tropes as all the alien flicks but try to distance it'self until the last scene..where it's like...oh yeah ...here's a xenomorph.

I definitely get where youre coming from Dionysis. In fact, if I had read this the night I saw Prometheus, I'd probably be way more prone to agree with you.

Here's what I mean by an Alien/ALiens clone. Simply the fact that it devolves into a "lets get some guns and shoot stuff."

In regards to the dialogue, you're right, it naturally could have evolved, but I really thought the build-up to the mission was all very clunky, to me, at least.

For the surgery scene, I think what we had was more-than-enough. If you're a person who likes gore, than this script as a whole would have been better for you. And I understand that, I prefer my horror to be more implied than shown.

But my biggest problem, is what I said above, it became just another action movie.

In the end though, I think I just grew to accept the premise of it NOT being a direct prequel to Alien. I'm glad it wasn't. But if thats what you really wanted, all power to ya.

Also, if THIS movie had come out. I would have enjoyed it. No doubt. But I wouldn't have felt compelled to buy it, watch it over and over again.

Prometheus sucked royally! I could care less about a sequel for this POS. For a $1 trillion mission the financier assembled the most obtuse and incompetent crew ever to grace the silver screen. Dark Helmet's crew in Spaceballs looks like a bunch of geniuses compared to these morons. Scott took some great elements like the engineers, David, etc. and flushed them down the toilet for a hole filled plot, enormous chasms in logic (even for a science fiction movie) and the most ridiculous ending to a movie you will ever see. I've seen some really dumb stuff in science fiction movies over the years but I nearly walked out of the theater when David was controlling the ship with a flute; that was just plain stupid! And the list of stupidity in this movie goes on for pages. This script is 100 times better than the steaming pile we got.

Although I do have to add that one problem I have with this early script is that many scenes mirror what we have seen before too much.

That said, what was far more important is the fact that they gave me (in this early script) enough explanation to make the science plausible, where Prometheus was so non-sensical (really anti-science) as to be insulting.

Clearly, Lindelof comes from a school of thought where he considers making extraordinary things happen with no explanation intriguing, where I find it tiresome. Good science fiction presents a mystery, and then explains it in a plausible way. He just through in the black goo to play the "Hand of God", basically it did whatever he needed it to do at the time. Although there was quite a bit of overlap between events, this script explained enough to make it all make sense.

Short version, this original script is the thinking person's movie, where what we got was the special effects lovers, sophomorically "meaningful" film.

Of course...it's removed. [frick]. Can someone please e-mail this to me???? I'm dying to read it!

millermagnet552@gmail.com

Thanks everyone!