Alien: Paradise Lost script undergoing revisions 2 months before filming begins?

This is interesting news...... i have been busy the past 2 weeks but should be back to being able to contribute more the weekend.

What does this mean for the Original Plans for the Movie and Franchise and shooting dates, who knows... but the Draft as of October 2014 does not feature Ripley or any links to this at all........   I wander if the Re-writting by John Logan is so that the movie has more ties to Alien Franchise and to include links to Ripley that Ridley Scott recently sugested it has.....  

And i wander if Alien 5 is on back burner because some of the Elements that cross over or ideas that cover stuff maybe they would have liked to have covered within a sequel or two to Prometheus are things they do not want covered in a Alien 5 and so they wish to lay the foundations for any Alien Origins and LV 426/223 links and what has become of the Engineers and their Tech and what the company could get its hands on as of at the end of Aliens... maybe Alien 5 touched on a few ideas that they wanted to not be covered in a Alien movie?

I have a feeling they are trying to cross breed the ideas for Prometheus 2 and 3, and Blomkamps continuation of Aliens into a set of movies that can cross over and fit in Ripley into the whole Franchise....

I had big hopes for the sequels to Prometheus and seemed some interesting things that could be explored and seemed like they are... i hope we are not going to see things scraped and tonned down a bit just so the next movies can tie in with Alien, Aliens and a new sequel and RIPLEY....

Because the Franchise is bigger than the Alien and nevermind Ripley!

Question is "What is the inspiration behind the revision?", something new...something interesting perhaps.  Definitley BiG DaVe, I also smell Alien 5...simmering!  Sometimes you got to let the food simmer before adding new ingredients. It has yet to be seen if it will be served as the main dish or for desert!

Bringing in a new writer (number three so far) suggests more that just a few tweaks. Something must be seriously lacking that the previous writer couldn't fix. Sometimes new writers are brought-in to "punch-up" movie scripts, without changing plot elements. Perhaps some issue came forward with test readings among the actors.  If filming is set to start in a few months, then this would be the time of screen tests and other pre-production elements involving some of the actors reading through the script. At this late stage I would hope Fox is not forcing Ridley to make changes in the story direction. 

I'm sure everyone is very keen to knock this one out of the park, so I imagine this is about punching up, or maybe settling continuity issues with the upcoming stories. I do hope too that Fox isn't meddling.

Big Dave, I couldn't agree more, leave Ripley out of it! I don't even need an oblique connection, I know her story already. And on that note:

I can't believe all the hostility on the internet about Alien 5 being 'shelved' so big bad Ridley can have his way. Has anyone considered the possibility that Blomkamp's and (to a lesser extent) Sigourney's hype had little substance behind it? Who would actually hand the Alien legacy to the director of Chappie, at least not with some much more accomplished minders (like that awful selfish Ridley, boo-boo) to hold his hand?

If Ridley had anything to do with Alien 5 being put on hold then good, I'd trust his judgement over Blomkamp's any day.