PROMETHEUS Sequel Development Reportedly In Trouble

PROMETHEUS Sequel Development Reportedly In Trouble

With Damon Lindelof not writing the Prometheus sequel despite pushing plans for a trilogy, 20th Century Fox and director Ridley Scott are said to be "freaking out" over continuing the story of Elizabeth Shaw.

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By PaulRom - Mar 27, 2013 08:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: Bloody-Disgusting



When Damon Lindelof rewrote Jon Spaiht's original draft for Prometheus, he turned the previously "one-shot" script into the first film of a potential trilogy. However, despite leaving the door wide open for an inevitable follow-up, the Star Trek Into Darkness screenwriter dropped out of penning the sequel, which will also see Ridley Scott return to direct. According to Bloody-Disgusting, both Scott and 20th Century Fox are "freaking out" over continuing the story of Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace), as the one who pushed them to pursue a trilogy isn't involved. They are currently taking pitches from "basically anyone who can crack the story". Despite Rapace recently saying that a script is currently underway, it sounds like development for the sequel is "in a state of jeopardy". However, BD notes that everyone involved with the film will likely deny this story. In the mean time, take this news with a pinch of salt until further notice. Do you want to see a Prometheus sequel?







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Nick56
Nick56 - 3/27/2013, 8:46 AM
i loved the first prometheus but would have liked it to be more of a direct prequel than a very loose and open one that we ended up getting.
ToTheManInTheColdSweat
ToTheManInTheColdSweat - 3/27/2013, 9:06 AM
lmbo, no shit
Ocelot
Ocelot - 3/27/2013, 9:07 AM
just split the damn movie into two and make it a dual narrative, send another crew(a backup crew in case anything went wrong, you can establish that in a flashback) from earth to LV-233. Have them deal with that proto-alien that was seen at the end of the first film and other stuff native to the planet. Whilst at the same time show us shaw's and david's journey on the engineer's homeworld. There you [frick]ing go.
imnotwearinghockeypants
imnotwearinghockeypants - 3/27/2013, 9:11 AM
Pile of disorganized shite.
SimyJo
SimyJo - 3/27/2013, 9:11 AM
SimyJo
SimyJo - 3/27/2013, 9:20 AM
They set off to find the engineer's homeworld at the end of the film....

Just her and Davids disembodied head...

Kinda hard to think what the story could possibly revolve around tbh - just them and potentially a planet full of engineers.

Odd. :/
CavEl
CavEl - 3/27/2013, 9:20 AM
We were promised answers....we got more questions.
Lizardking310
Lizardking310 - 3/27/2013, 9:23 AM
I loved the movie
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 3/27/2013, 9:24 AM
the HISHE ending was better than the one in the movie :P
StrangerX
StrangerX - 3/27/2013, 9:27 AM
I likes Prometheus, however I expected more grit less flashy suits and panels. The creatures were cool, and Fassbender did an excellent job. It was a great sci fi film just not the best prequel to Alien.
SigmaCenturion
SigmaCenturion - 3/27/2013, 9:29 AM
Wasn't that great.
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 3/27/2013, 9:33 AM
Loved Prometheus!! 8/10 for me! I would really love to see a trilogy made out of this franchise. I might even be open to a reboot of Alien. (I know... I know...) but with today's modern technology and graphics we can have better quality effects and of course they can still keep the animatronic looking aliens. Really looking forward to seeing where the Engineers come from. The film has a lot of potential to lead into an even greater story. :)
Alchemist
Alchemist - 3/27/2013, 9:34 AM
Elizabeth Shaw travels through space looking for the Engineers, but instead she lands on planet HULK, makes friends with Hulk, takes Hulk to Engineers planet and HULK smashes them all to Hell, then they all live happily ever after. The End.
RexMason
RexMason - 3/27/2013, 9:40 AM
Prometheus was a masterpiece. I don't care what they do in the sequel, I have faith in Ridley Scott.
NoAssemblyReqd
NoAssemblyReqd - 3/27/2013, 9:47 AM
I really enjoyed PROMETHEUS, and I am disappointed that Lindelof won't be picking up the thread of the story again. Why can't he put an outline of the planned trilogy to paper and let someone else run with it? Perhaps any of the other LOST writers? Horowitz and Kitsis?
NoAssemblyReqd
NoAssemblyReqd - 3/27/2013, 9:53 AM
Dear James Cameron and/or Ridley Scott:

Please abandon your plans for PROMETHEUS and AVATAR sequels. It's not too late to make ALIENS 2, picking up where ALIENS left off and giving the characters of Ripley Newt, Hicks, and Bishop a proper send-off, thereby relegating ALIEN3 and RESURRECTION to the status of "bad dreams." Sure, you'd have to recast all the roles, but it's better than leaving the series to end on such a crappy note.
Ocelot
Ocelot - 3/27/2013, 9:56 AM
@Godzillafart you can blame fox for that, the mutha[frick]ers should have just kept the movie as a direct prequel to alien, but instead they wanted a franchise, so decided to make this a stand alone movie with so called "strands of alien dna" and appoint lindolf to rewrite the script and we all know what happened from there.

However if i'm being honest, though spaihts's script was much better there were still problems in it. It pretty much turns into a standard alien movie towards the end and would have been too expensive to do
Hellsing
Hellsing - 3/27/2013, 10:00 AM
The movie was MEH, the characters were plain idiotic and the guy piece reveal at the end even more stupid. I honestly don't care if the movie answered the questions it posed or not because I was so distracted by the way the retarded characters on screen. Fassbender as David was the saving Grace of this movie, Hopefully they kill Shaw in the first 10 mins Newt style.
MarkV
MarkV - 3/27/2013, 10:02 AM
Horrible movie. So disappointing.

Alchemist
Alchemist - 3/27/2013, 10:11 AM
I loved Prometheus, I know it had its flaws, but I still really enjoyed it, it was a great comedy!
arsonjack
arsonjack - 3/27/2013, 10:11 AM
That idiot writer knows he made the movie into a convoluted story and jus wants to jump the ship.
datNAMEtho
datNAMEtho - 3/27/2013, 10:12 AM
HAHA because there is nothing left to film.
Hellsing
Hellsing - 3/27/2013, 10:12 AM
Sorry but blaming just Lidelof can just shows how stupid some of you are yes did he write the inept script but I am pretty sure Ridley Scott's the one who approved it and actually shot the film. So our dear SIR Ridley Scott is equally guilty. So are all the yes men around him! Not saying Lindelof is innocent or anything.

Also this movie wasn't the worst movie ever made it just wasn't the Alien movie people wanted and thats seems to be the main problem with most. Where as for me the characters just didn't work, in the first Alien movie you cared about the characters and the same with Aliens.
Sanderman
Sanderman - 3/27/2013, 10:12 AM
Movie wasn't bad. The only people I know that didn't like it were the ones expecting it to be an Alien movie
BackwardGalaxy
BackwardGalaxy - 3/27/2013, 10:17 AM
If they can crack the story? If this were truly Scott's baby, he'd already have the story, and would only need a script built around it. Truly troubling.
Ocelot
Ocelot - 3/27/2013, 10:29 AM
@Godzillafart agree I honestly dont how or why a writer would just go about picking scene's and go "let me just change this and make silly and stupid" which dont do anything remotely positive to take the movie foward. The fifield, Milburn scene actually makes a bit of sense spaiht's script, Milburn thinks the suits are "bulletproof" and they cant be harmed. But know Lindolf decided to [frick] that up and make the character find the alien sexy and pretty.

However I do think Lindolf did 1 or 2 good/decent things. I think his version of David is better that Spaiht's evil killer robot version of david. Lindolf's version was more fleshed out. Also thing the black liquid was better than the alien bugs that Spaiht's also had.

I think 90% of spaiht's script and 10% of Lindolfs would have made for a good and smart movie. Obviously some of Spaiht's stuff would have to be removed, so that it wouldn't be too expensive.
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