Prometheus: Lindelof & Spaihts Confirm “36 Hours” Was NOT Scripted!!!

Prometheus is 25% film 75% people trying to garner something from anything they can. Think the online community has written the prequel already

@MVMNT Agreed. Practically every plainly apparent absurdity in this film that rears it's head just has to have actually been some kind of intentional, cryptic, message, all along - no matter what anyone says: not even the people responsible for the damned thing. Now that the Writers have given completely the wrong answer, perhaps Ridley Scott and Thomas Rothman should get ready to be chased around the globe - for the rest of their lives.

i didnt know so many people have been nit picking such a small line! i didnt even notice it, didnt seem important.

Nothing like passing the buck eh Spaiths. I didn't notice it at the time either. I was more disappointed in the size difference between this films space jockeys or engineers and the one from alien. Did the species shrink?

I never really cared one bit whether it was a writing mistake, improvisation or whatthefu$kever. It seemed most were trying to use this as ammunition to act like Lindelof and Scott really don't have any idea what they're doing or where the story is going which is ridiculous. If you don't want to have faith that Lindelof knows where the story is going then that's fine but to act like this was some kind of astronomical error was silly. I'll say again...Blade Runner...Bryant saying 6 replicants escaped from an off-world colony...one got fried...leaving 5 instead of the 4 left in the film...Total mistake...in a film that is an all time classic in any genre. Certain reactions and the attention given to this whole thing was just silly.

I don't the entire storyline revolves aropund the '36 hours'..comment...but it cannot be ignored,,especially it seemed like an instinctive flaw,,that might be noted by our littlew brains. Afterwards in discussions it seems more mysterious that ever...I think it was some kind of 'test' by David..

i can ignore it ^_^

@Benji...Thanks btw for playing Perry Mason on this one lol. No need for you to go to court and get a ruling on whether it was an improvisation or a mistake though. I could care less before and still could care less. If it turns out to have some meaning behind it I doubt that meaning is going to have any relevance on the overall quality of the film OR the quality of the sequel. The answer, as David states...Is irrelevant.

Good luck with ignoring it. This is getting more press than the Higgs Boson.

It is kind of hard to ignore an elephant in the room so to speak.. Just look at how many poists/theads discuss the topic.. If it is a ruse,,that is a pretty damn good one..

Wow... I've seen the movie three times now (and am waiting for BluRay) and didn't catch that '36 hours' line.

You will not miss the line on nthe next viewing,,such is the site power.. My son after the movie noticed it and discussed it with me. I can understand not seeing/understanding each scene because I was sort of overwhelmed by the visual displays.presented on the screen. This is one movie I will not enjoy as much at home becuse of the smaller viewing screen. I would however enjoy playing each scene(with closed caption on) just to see details often over looked. I have watched one movie multiple times and in each viewing saw something different,,and understand a bit more of the plotline and charactors.. and this after 10 years!

actually this is the first post ive even seen about it, i am an excellent ignore-er

Do i need to say i told you so? Yes i said the line was improv by fassbender because the davids are not quite yet the perfect android!!!!!!

Blade Runner - number error Prometheus - number error Ridley Scott - number dyslexic?

Ash is a step forward in perfection?

Free: Aahahah. Good one. deftones1986: It says absolutly nothing other than those folks feel so ashamed now they are handing the grenade to Michael Fassbender. First Lindelof excusing himself for numerous oddities says he did what he did with the blessings of Sir Ridley and that he rewrote the Spaiths script. Spaith says he didn't do that, now it's Fassbender's fault. All in all, the people in charge FAILED. p.s.: I'll repeat that the script has to be wirten down. No way a bunch of people working on it would not notice the "36h" reference.

...what's this about 36... was that in the film? I missed that! Who is chasing who around the globe now??? Please someone take me off this crazy train!

36 Hours not scripted? Of course it was. By George Seaton from the short story by Roald Dahl. James Garner and Eva Marie Saint starred. Probably what happened was this: David was trying to recall how long it took Colonel T E Lawrence to cross the Nefud Desert. To assist him in remembering this while he was learning all those languages he created a little mnemonic: the same number of hours as the title of the movie with James Garner and Eva Marie Saint where the nasty Nazis were trying to extract info about the inevitable D Day landings. He remembered this just as he was asked about the time taken and it just slipped into the conversation, “36 hours.” Proving he’s more human than we thought.

@ David 1 - [i]"I'll repeat that the script has to be written down. No way a bunch of people working on it would not notice the "36h" reference."[/i] This is very good point indeed, which I think has not been explored: 1) The movie industry expression "If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage" grew out of the fact that the script is king. It is the blueprint, roadmap, GPS, whatever, for the entire multimillion dollar production. 2) Ridley Scott is not Robert Altman. He is not know for building movies around random improvisation on the part of the actors. 3) It is standard procedure on most movie sets to have someone reading along with the script as the actors deliver the dialogue. This ensures that multiple takes can be edited together properly. Once those are in the can, some directors allow for multiple readings. If Fass mis-read the line, the director & editor obviously liked that take and put it in. If not, and he is a very studious actor, he was delivering his lines verbatim, and it was in the script. It still comes down to the director or the writers. I think they are embarrassed by all of the attention such a little thing has garnered. Fans of this genre obsess on the details (duh!). This isn't an Adam Sandler movie, the fans are not so forgiving. If you want people to believe you can write a credible, technically accurate science fiction movie, this 36 hours thing really calls your competency into question.