Back to the Drawing Board
Batchpool
MemberFacehuggerNovember 15, 20135735 Views36 RepliesGiven that Ridley was not able to go where he wanted in what he put on screen, I have come to the conclusion that Prometheus ‘developed’ into a stand alone movie, but at what point it became that, who knows?
I think when Ridley was shooting the movie that maybe he could give it something of a direction that he may have originally intended. Unfortunately, after final editing decisions were mad and we have what we have.
It is only through lots of debating, and looking through all the threads generated I have come to the conclusion, What if Ridley during his final editing decided that it would be better to deliver a film that tries to get away as far as possible from what was first conceived. That way it would be possible to leave the door open on being able to make a movie that goes back to what the original idea was.
There is also the option of treating Prometheus as an off shoot back story for something that might only be referred to a short time in a new movie. The central characters such as Shaw and David might then become very small cogs in a big machine.
I suppose in a way I am saying that it is possible to tear everything up and go back to the drawing board and look at producing something that resembles the original drafts .
I’m not saying this will happen, but the door IS open for it to happen.
Could a new movie place Prometheus as a minor side show?
November 15, 2013
As much as it pains me to say this, Ridley has actually said it can be a stand alone movie.
November 16, 2013
@ Oduodo
Good point. That's a million dollar question.
November 16, 2013
@ Oduodo
Ridley stated before making Prometheus that he wanted to give us the story of the big guy in the chair. Has he done that? Imo No. What he has given us are Engineers and a little info about them, but that is not the big guy in the chair. I think that is an avenue that is still open to explore.
@ Necronom 4
I think Ridley started out with a clear plan but somewhere it got hijacked. Hence, back to the drawing board.
@ Major Noob
(Prometheus teeters on making the Morb a minor secondary charater)
This is my major gripe. As much as Prometheus exists within the same Alien universe, this is where the baby has been thrown out with the bathwater.
At some point someone has given Ridley the green light to produce something, and I am really itching to know what it is. I think the issue of the difficulties coming up with the script may partly be down to Prometheus looking like it has written itself into a corner, whereas the truth of the matter may be that there are so many possibilities about which direction it should go in.
The marketing dept of Fox is going to have its work cut out for it, simply because I for one will be looking for the slightest hint of a Xeno in any forthcoming virals.
November 16, 2013
@ Shambs
'Would be like an insurance policy or a lifeline for a badass film in the future'.
Well put. That's exactly what I am driving at :)
November 16, 2013
@ Necronom 4
I bet you are right. “taking it in a new direction†was down to the suits . But as to how much of a new direction did’nt become apparent until later down the line.
I feel Fox got Ridley under false pretences, and what Ridley thought he was going to be able to make was removed from his grasp after he had signed the dotted line and was contractually committed to the project.
November 16, 2013
The thing is that Prometheus has left off where we have our intrepid adventurers off to meet a civilisation that are considered gods by their advanced technology. This hidden civilisation will no doubt have an underclass and be interspersed with monsters and some moral dilema’s. Our adventurers will no doubt want to seek a way back home at some point or join the ranks of that civilisation. What we are looking at then is just a re make of Warlords of Atlantis, only on the other side of the universe. Can’t say I would be too enthralled by that prospect, but that kind of film is a crowd pleaser and makes money.
The one thing that imo that would nail the whole story into place, would be some common thread that can connect up an explaination for the derelict on LV426. I don’t think that is too much to ask, along with the odd xeno or facehugger thrown in for good measure.
If Prometheus is supposed to be a prequel, then you can only keep sidestepping the xenos for so long.
November 17, 2013
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