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Alien Engineers: Prometheus Orginal Script (Link Inside and Cliff Notes)
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:01 pm
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:01 pm
Enjoy.
Prometheus Orignal Script
Cliff Notes:
Starts the same with the engineer eating a black disk and dissolving. But he turns into a bunch of bug like things that fly away and bite primitive humans injecting them with engineer DNA before they disintegrate.
Watts and Holloway convinced Weyland to finance the voyage he doesn't go there. He isn't interested in knowledge or living forever just terraforming technology so he can get rich off terraforming Mars. Also, Vickers is not his daughter she is an employee he sends to supervise.
There are no jars of black stuff but instead a bunch of facehugger cocoons that David gets to hatch. David goes rogue turning on the ship and awakens an engineer to send it to earth and release the facehuggers to wipe out humanity.
It ends with Watt's stuck on the moon with David's head waiting for a rescue. David is trying to convince her to put him back together so he can help her escape the moon. It ends with bunch of beacons going off at the other engineer ships/terraforming sites and it is inferred that it is signaling them to come to the moon.
There is a lot of other cool action that makes it a great read. Overall, I like the films ending better but would love for the rest of the movie to have been what was written in this script.
Prometheus Orignal Script
Cliff Notes:
Starts the same with the engineer eating a black disk and dissolving. But he turns into a bunch of bug like things that fly away and bite primitive humans injecting them with engineer DNA before they disintegrate.
Watts and Holloway convinced Weyland to finance the voyage he doesn't go there. He isn't interested in knowledge or living forever just terraforming technology so he can get rich off terraforming Mars. Also, Vickers is not his daughter she is an employee he sends to supervise.
There are no jars of black stuff but instead a bunch of facehugger cocoons that David gets to hatch. David goes rogue turning on the ship and awakens an engineer to send it to earth and release the facehuggers to wipe out humanity.
It ends with Watt's stuck on the moon with David's head waiting for a rescue. David is trying to convince her to put him back together so he can help her escape the moon. It ends with bunch of beacons going off at the other engineer ships/terraforming sites and it is inferred that it is signaling them to come to the moon.
There is a lot of other cool action that makes it a great read. Overall, I like the films ending better but would love for the rest of the movie to have been what was written in this script.
This post was edited on 5/23/13 at 5:58 pm
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Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:04 pm to AngryBeavers
cliff's please
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:04 pm to AngryBeavers
No offense but...
Who. fricking. Cares.
Who. fricking. Cares.
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:06 pm to ColaTiger
quote:
No offense but...
Who. fricking. Cares.
It's good read. A lot of people on here liked the movie. If you don't care why are you wasting time posting that you don't care?
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:08 pm to manwich
WHAT IS THE BLACK GOO?!?!?!
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:08 pm to AngryBeavers
I'm mildly interested. I might read it if I'm bored enough to think that it's worth the effort. Thanks for posting.
This post was edited on 5/23/13 at 2:09 pm
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:10 pm to AngryBeavers
Will read later. And be even more pissed at that hack Lindelof.
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:13 pm to Peazey
It deviates quite quickly from the film. Very interesting read if you get some free time.
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:15 pm to AngryBeavers
quote:
It deviates quite quickly from the film. Very interesting read if you get some free time.
I've read the title page and it's already better than Lindelof's version.
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:17 pm to ColaTiger
quote:
Who. fricking. Cares.
I do. I'm interested to see what could have been.
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:17 pm to Jwodie
quote:
Will read later. And be even more pissed at that hack Lindelof.
I'm sure you could have done better
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:20 pm to TH03
quote:
I'm sure you could have done better
How intelligent. The point is that someone already did. See link in OP.
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:21 pm to TH03
quote:
I'm sure you could have done better
Is this the only way you can criticize someone? By being able to do it better?
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:23 pm to TH03
quote:you have to admit what lindelof did with prometheus was terrible.
I'm sure you could have done better
so if we criticize anyone, the perfect response would be..."i'm sure you could have done better." ?
that's retarded.
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:27 pm to The Egg
quote:
you have to admit what lindelof did with prometheus was terrible.
it really wasn't.
I mean look at the title of this script. ALIEN: Engineers. it's an Alien movie. Prometheus is not. you can't really compare the two.
it's just the cool thing to do to bash Lindelof on this board. if he was as bad as everyone seems to think, he'd be out of a job
he did what he was asked to do, take it from an Alien movie and make it more of its own movie with an Alien flavor
This post was edited on 5/23/13 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:29 pm to TH03
That movie fell off the rails in the last quarter. Started strong and ended weak. That's a fault of the writing.
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:31 pm to TH03
quote:
I mean look at the title of this script. ALIEN: Engineers. it's an Alien movie. Prometheus is not. you can't really compare the two.
That's the entire point of why Alien fans are pissed - because Lindelof was the catalyst in changing the written script from a pure Alien prequel (which people wanted) to a disjointed mess of a standalone movie masquerading as a psuedo-prequel to Alien to sell more tickets. Hence the vast disappointment in how the movie turned out.
This post was edited on 5/23/13 at 2:32 pm
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:31 pm to Jwodie
quote:
because Lindelof was the catalyst in changing the written script from a pure Alien prequel (which people wanted)
Ridley Scott didn't want a pure Alien prequel
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:32 pm to AngryBeavers
quote:Scarlett Johansson.
Holloway climbs in. Squeezes into her cockpit. A tight fit. He’s distracted by her body, pressed so close - but she has eyes only for the inscrutable writing outside the glass.
Posted on 5/23/13 at 2:33 pm to TH03
Alien-related or not, the film was filled with stupid, inconsistent characters and a lame plot. Shame because it was so gorgeous visually.
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