I hope Ridley is still a team player

I have a lot of respect for Ridley Scott, I believe he has had great taste in selecting some of the stories he made into movies, and his visual style is out of this world. However, I also believe that the quality of his movies rely a lot on the talents of his artistic team. Think about what Dan O'Bannon, H.R. Geiger and Carlo Rambaldi meant to Alien, or the imprint left by the work of Douglas Trumbull, Syd Mead, Lawrence G. Paul & David Snyder and Jordan Cronnenweth on Blade Runner. Back in the day Scott was working on one project at a time; they were really a work of passion. These days, defining himself as being a businessman as much as he is a director, he manages about 6 projects at a time, with a Blade Runner sequel among them (gulp) If the technical aspects of his later output has become more generic than groundbreaking lately, I think it is because of the frequent collaborations with people like Marc Streitenfeld in the music department and Arthur Max in art direction. I am not saying they are bad professionals, but I do not perceive them as brilliant either. Now, my major fear about Prometheus is the way the project was patched together. There was not a pre-existent screenplay that wowed Ridley making him say: "this is the story I was waiting for so I can return to the genre that jump started my career." It was more like "I have these loose ends I want to make into some sort of prequel or sidekick to Alien." And he recruited these two guys who are basically two fanboys who did nothing but trying to please Ridley. In an interview for the show "On The Verge" Lindeloff said something very revealing and very smart as well: "if the movie is a success it's all because of Ridley Scott and if the movie is not a success is because I was unable to execute his vision successfully" A nice way of flattering his idol and washing his hands at the same time. He also expressed that he was "proud of his lack of authorship" on the script an even compared his work with playing mad libs with Ridley. For the sake of Prometheus, I really hope that the vision Lindeloff talks about is relevant enough and exciting enough to make Prometheus more than a summer money maker. I hope the talent around him was up to the challenge, and that the interplay between director and collaborators was a balanced one. If not, we might headed to unveil the underwhelming product of a genius trapped in his own ivory tower.