re: Alien Engineers: Prometheus Orginal Script (Link Inside and Cliff Notes)

I didn't like it for a number of reasons, but I'm not getting into it because :beatdeadhorse:

I am curious about this script though.

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Cliff notes would be great if someone actually reads all of this.

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I'm about 1/3 through it. It's actually a great read for those with a little extra time.

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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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My opinion of the movie.

Prometheus was a HUGE letdown.

Alright I'm home now and can post some highlights:

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.

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Maybe they were afraid this would be too predictable, with facehuggers and bad robots? Although I guess David was still bad.

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In the film David is more curious not really sociopathic like he was in the script.

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Would have been cool, though the movie's ending isn't bad.

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I definitely preferred the films ending

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Thanks bro.

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Anytime

I still prefer the film after reading this script, overall. Especially David, who was far more interesting in the film.

I did enjoy the part of the script where it specifically says she tried to run sideways when the juggernaut was rolling towards her.

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I don't feel like reading the script but from the cliff notes... that sounds awful

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No offense to the cliff's notes poster but that's not the best summary of what I've read.

I've read about halfway through and I prefer the original script to the film (thus far). I found this bit of dialogue in the script very interesting as it correlates to many of the Christianity theories posited by people after viewing Prometheus. For reference, this scene occurs right after Fifield and Milburn are killed in the belly of the alien structure after being marooned from the crew.

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WATTS (this is "Shaw (Noomi Rapace) in the movie)
We found the gods. And they’ve been murdered.

HOLLOWAY
You’ve pried too many arrowheads out of old skulls to get squeamish now. They’ve been dead what, eighteen hundred years? Two thousand?

WATTS What could kill them?

Holloway contemplates the question.

HOLLOWAY

Who knows? (he laughs bitterly

But I guess we know why they never
came back to us. Something killed them
off - back around the time of Christ.
Maybe He was one of them! A great
teacher, sent from Heaven? Jesus. The
last Engineer.

WATTS

Martin, stop!

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Holloway dies in the original script while in the bedroom with Watts/Shaw. While they are having sex he devolves into a seizure and then dies from a chestburster. The parasite then goes after Watts before retreating into an air duct. Shaw returns to the alien pyramid following Holloway's recorded tracking system on his suit to see what caused his death (note, there is no stupid magic black goo!). This is what you discover:

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XENOMORPH INCUBATOR

Watts enters a new chamber, looking around in astonishment. The domed ceiling is honeycombed with cells like a beehive. Grotesque molluscoid organisms are secreted in them - their vile orifices cinched tightly shut.

Watts stumbles on something: looking down, she sees a helmet. Picks it up. The stenciled label reads HOLLOWAY. The clear visor has been melted through by a powerful acid.

She looks up: a tracheal airshaft curves up into the dark.

An electric CRACKLE. A flare of blue light makes Watts leap back against the wall.

Holloway falls out of overhead shaft and crashes to the floor. He lies in pain, barely conscious. Blue and luminous,a holographic ghost.

Watts stares, paralyzed. The ghost gasps out a word:

HOLLOWAY
Jocelyn!

Holloway’s headlamp shines on the molluscoid right overhead: the beam awakens the organism. Its sphincter mouth dilates.
A soft white octopoid FACEHUGGER descends on a quivering rope of mucus. Sprawls slitheringly over his clear visor.

Acid HISSES. Smoke rises from the glass.

The vision vanishes in a sizzle of static. Watts huddles against the wall, gasping.

In the beam of her flashlight, the FACEHUGGER lies dead, legs curled in.

She looks up. Sees the open molluscoid above where Holloway lay.

The other molluscoids not yet opened in their
cells.

Terror. She steals out of the chamber.

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Sorry but I greatly prefer this to the unexplained black goo.

On the engineers' point in being on LV-426 and the ship:

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INT. JUGGERNAUT - EGG CHAMBER
Watts awakens. Her helmet is gone. DAVID is dragging her across the floor - into a huge cargo hold full of Alien eggs. The wide trench holding hundreds of eggs under a membrane of light: an evolution of the molluscoids Watts saw before. Armored, hardened, darker.

WATTS
DAVID. What are you doing?

He hauls her upright to let her look across the huge space. His grip looks casual but it might as well be iron manacles.

DAVID
Juggernaut, the chariot of Krishna, was also a bringer of death. Crushing his worshippers under its wheels.

He drags Watts down into the trench. Breaking the membrane of light. Grips her against his chest like a doll with one arm.

DAVID (CONT’D)
This ship has seven other cargo bays like this one. The eggs in each bay slightly different. They’ve been weaponized.

Watts struggles to free herself. DAVID’s arm is inescapable.

DAVID (CONT’D)
I’ve seen the Juggernaut’s flight plan. Its destination was Earth. Seventeen hundred years ago. This was the ship that never came. This was its cargo.

DAVID caresses an Alien egg. It opens under his touch - fleshy petals folding wetly back.
Watts twists frantically in his grip. Wild-eyed.

WATTS
Stop!

DAVID
Perfect predators. Designed to kill human beings. That’s what the Engineers were bringing to Earth. This was a death ship.

A facehugger emerges from the egg, its grotesque fingers clawing at the air. This is not the boneless squid that attacked Holloway; this is a pale skeletal hand, armored.

DAVID strokes it curiously: the thing ignores his touch.

Climbs Watts’s body.

DAVID (CONT’D)

I’m not what it wants. But you, with your warm wet breath...it knows you.

WATTS
DAVID. No. No.

The facehugger scuttles toward her face. Watts shrieks.

DAVID grabs it nonchalantly by the tail. Dangles it in front of their faces, studying it.

DAVID
The Engineers did their work too well. And on this waystation moon, the weapon they made destroyed them.

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