2011 Damon Lindelof Prometheus Script Rewrite Ties to Comics, Books, and Film

Good job Kroft talks about Movies!

I heard this script is a fan made... Not an official one. True ?  

This draft has been discussed a few times before, while it offers some depth, it does kind of contradict a few clues in Prometheus, there are also a number of mistakes....

This draft has NEVER been officially acknowledged by Lindeloff, it has been suspected as a FAN EDIT and i think this is 90% likely the case.

HOWEVER.... it does offer some good expansion to the Story, it is kind of not how i interpreted Prometheus, but with the arrival of Alien Covenant and the Advent Viral, these maybe do match this Drafts Take on Prometheus rather than my OWN take.

I do still feel this Draft is Fake... but it has some interesting things to debate

I will however discus the videos you have made Ingeneiro

Hieroglyphs in the Green Substance on Panel

There certainly appeared to be something in the Goo on the Control Panel, Nano Particles at least, it was hard to make out if there are any Hieroglyphs however.... But David found the substance interesting, and we get the impression this was more than just a Slime...

While there is NO definite Evidence of Hieroglyphs we can maybe go back to Lindeloff's idea's/clues (in the Officially Acknowledged draft) which with the scene where they arrive at the Panel, Lindeloff begins to hint to us that David sees something the others dont, eventually he touches up on this more... and its a explanation of Jon Spaights ideas that the Engineers and David can see things in the air/around Technology that are like Hieroglyphs the Engineers manipulate but these are invisible to Human Eye... But Watts (Shaw) in Spaights draft gets to see them after she adapts a Space Jockey Suit/Engineer Lens.

So the idea was that around the Technology Control Panels were Characters/Hieroglyphs  that act like some Advanced Input Device, like a Keyboard but the Characters are suspended floating around the Control Panels... that can be manipulated by the Engineers.

So going back to Prometheus, we can see to pull this kind of Special Effect off, may have been a bit hard... and so replacing it with a GOO that has something inside it that controls the Panels is very Logical and so indeed Hieroglyphs or at very least something that is used to interact and activate the Engineers Technology is very likely.

Janek, "You know what this place is? Hell."

The 2011 Fake Draft adds a few words of Dialog to help explain what Janek was talking about, my Prometheus Re-write i did the same kind of thing very close actually, by adding few words here and there to lessen the Ambiguity....   But going only by Prometheus and Lindeloffs confirmed draft..

Indeed the dialog of Janek between Vickers and then Shaw, is providing us more clues/answers than we see visually, a key with Prometheus always was not what we see... but taking note of Character Dialog as they are providing the answers and we need to read into them.

So indeed this Place was used to Manufacture and Test that Black Goo, well certainly at some period in Time it become a place to Test/Create this Biological Warfare.... until  one day something may have accidentally got spilled....  but there are clues to suggest maybe Sabotage or even a Direct Attempt to Stop what they was doing may have happened.

I WILL ATTEMPT to look at all the videos...

I will add i looked at one of the videos posted explaining the Space Jockey, and the 13 Foot Unsuited and 15ft Suited Engineers.... Lindeloffs official Draft the Engineers are described at 12 Feet Plus, there is no Mention of 13ft....  they was referred to as 15ft in Jon Spaights Alien Engineers. Lindeloff had commented before about how the intentions where a taller race, but that got revised down to 9-10ft tall as of prior to Shooting etc.

The 13-15ft is a good size guide for the Space Jockey, many years ago i had a detailed look and compared scale of the Space Jockey Prop and i concluded the Space Jockey was likely 13ft Tall, no more than 15ft Tops as the Prop Length inc Chair was just over 16ft.   Maybe thats where the 13-15ft came from? If the Fan who Edited the Draft had came across discussions on here ;)

However with Alien Engineers 15ft Race and Paradises 12ft + its safe to assume the Original Idea was a 12-15ft Ball Park.... which Sadly due to RS not wanting to use any Effects.... pulling off and fooling us to think the Engineers are 12-15ft to match the Space Jockey was just not feasible... In Hindsight Ridley Scott could have used the same trickery we saw in the HOBBIT and LORD OF THE RINGS Franchises.

Fifield and Millburn find a large pile of deceased and EXPLODED Engineers

As far as i am aware.... Lindeloffs Acknowledged draft does not have a explanation of the scene where Milburn and Fifield discover the piles of Bodies... the apparent Fan Edit touches on the scene in the movie and adds a few extra words...  i also began to add a few to my Re-write that was not to dissimilar to what this Fan Edit has.. (i was emphasizing on the suits appearing to be Hollow).

So the Fan Edit adds a few lines...  but also adds some that make it certain its a Fan Edit

"FIFIELD What do you think caused them to explode? Predator canons?"

But back to the subject of those Engineers, indeed they were pilled up and as they said like some kind of Holocaust painting, i had detailed my view on this scene and earlier Engineer Body a long time ago.

Looking at the Exploding Head, the Sacrificial Scene and Shaws comments about Ebola... and noticing some of the suits appeared Hollow, it was my conclusion the Engineers had been infected with the Black Goo, and this substance was breaking them down like the Sacrificial Engineer... to a degree...

The Sacrificial Engineer Scene we see his body breaks down, the substance causes a Violent Reaction... If this Engineer was inside a Space Jockey Suit the Violent Reaction and Chemical Soup that becomes of the Engineer would be contained within the Pressured Container that is the Space Jockey Suit. 

If we look at this as how a Minto is put into Cola and causes a Reaction and Build up of Gas... this Gas tries to escape by what ever means it can... any flaws in the Bottle... so a Cap not on tight, any Holes in the Bottle that are covered up by say Chewing Gum/Glue or Tape.. would eventually give way to the pressure inside and the Liquid explodes from these defects/holes.

I think THIS is what causes those Engineer Suits to have those Holes. Within context to Prometheus.... Fast Forwards to Alien Covenant and we see those Engineers being attacked by the Black Goo and imagine if there bodies eventually disintegrated instead of turn to like STONE and we can imagine such a Reaction Contained in the Space Jockey Suits would cause the Black Goo to explode.. and the Engineers bodies inside to be NO MORE...

A thing to consider is these Engineer Bodies had maybe been worked on as part of Jon Spaights Draft, where the Bodies where to show some had suffered Chest Buster Wounds and others Wounds caused by Adult Stage Chest Busters...

But Prometheus had a different route with the Black Goo and the Props were Empty inside (makes them lighter and less material used) and the Empty suits fits nice with the Black Goo especially if the end result would be similar to what remained of the Sacrificial Engineer.

Hello King Goo. I'm sorry I missed your topic on this script just months ago that covered so much of the main script concepts. I was most excited about the link to LV-426. 

You are so accommodating BigDave. Thank you. I went back and researched a little and you had covered this back in 2013 going forward a few times. 

I noticed the quote regarding the "predator" canons and I thought it might be attributed to an early draft of the script Lindelof wrote before Scott's frowned on any Predator mention. And you're certainly correct regarding a lack of confirmation from Lindelof on the script authenticity.