I actually really liked this. I wasn't a huge fan of Alien but it was enjoyable. I hate to be the one to say it but I liked Prometheus more than Alien. A must watch if you're a fan of Sci-fi.

I'm not sure where I heard this but I think they cut out around 30 minutes of the film? That's probably why some scenes made no sense...

They've actually put the original draft of this called 'ALIEN: Engineers' by Jon Spaihts online:

http://www.prometheus-movie.com/uploads/112142280-Alien-Engineers.pdf

Quoted from nawazm11 I'm not sure where I heard this but I think they cut out around 30 minutes of the film? That's probably why some scenes made no sense...

Somehow I don't think that extra 30 is going to explain:

• Why or how they flew across the galaxy and landed at the first place they found without surveying the entire planet from orbit first?
  
• How they magically landed right in the valley where the structure was located? Planets are rather large.
  
• Why they didn't survey from the air the site they just plopped their merry biscuits at.
  
• Why "just because the air was breathable" they all took their helmets off? Space cooties, scientists. Space cooties.
  
• Why the geologist got lost inside the caverns but the others didn't? World's most incompetent geologist?
  
• Why the biologist would extend his arm out to the space planarian? World's most incompetent biologist?
  
• Why the Prometheus bay had no decontamination protocols.
  
• Flamethower? Really? That's all they got to defend the ship's bay? Pfft. Morons.
  
• Exactly what was even the purpose of Vickers in the story?
  
• How does the biomass of a wiggly 8 lb. squid turn into a huge four ton behemoth?
  

Think that extra 30 'splained any of those?

I think PROMETHEUS replaces AVATAR as my new film I love to hate.

However, I do think it's very clever of the producers to promote BluRay sales with the inclusion of the bonus material not available in DVDs.

But it doesn't matter much. The "hard copy ownership" industry is dying, which is a shame to me because I've really enjoyed learning so much from the DVD extras I fear will not be made available through streaming internet routes.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.co.....ion-not-revenue.html

Quoted from SteveUK They've actually put the original draft of this called 'ALIEN: Engineers' by Jon Spaihts online: http://www.prometheus-movie.com/uploads/112142280-Alien-Engineers.pdf

Oh! Nice find, Steve.
Thank you!



UPDATE: Thanks, Brett!
Oh, I forgot - "Look! We found a 2,000 year old head in a helmet in this environment and it's neither dessicated nor mummified! Lettuce take it back to the lab in an open air environment and ruin it in less than two minutes!" Dumb@sses.)

In response to Ray, I did see the deleted scenes.
And... the move made more sense with them in.
It was also much scarier too.
The zombie guy attack was an actual alien hybrid.
Oh man, was that thing nasty. Dunno why they changed it to the gore dude.

The geologist's behavior made much more sense.
There was an added scene where his affinity for the critter is explained.

A significant improvement, anyone else seen them?

Regards,
E.D.

E.D.

Yeah I saw them to and I'm not really sure why they were taken out to be honest. They added to the story, not took away IMO (thats always a good thing isnt it?)

Especially the alien hybrid, that thing was awsome. Dunno, maybe Scott thought it was to close to a xenomorph. He did say he wanted to move away from that sort of thing.

I still liked the movie though. As well as the original script "Alien: Engineers".

Quoted from Hugh Hoyland E.D. Yeah I saw them to and I'm not really sure why they were taken out to be honest. They added to the story, not took away IMO (thats always a good thing isnt it?) Especially the alien hybrid, that thing was awsome. Dunno, maybe Scott thought it was to close to a xenomorph. He did say he wanted to move away from that sort of thing. I still liked the movie though. As well as the original script "Alien: Engineers".

And now you can compare the Alien:Engineers script to the Lidelof rewrite...
While supplies last.

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/PARADISEfinal.pdf

Regards,
E.D.

Sweet.

Thanks E.D.!  

HGW

Watched this again for the first time last night, and it's held up pretty well. It's interesting reading the thread again as the answers have all been given by people finding the original script.

The Engineers are trying to recreate a Paradise (Eden) that was created from the blood of their great leader (the big stone head) after being infected by a xenomorph. The blood of that guy was what the Engineer drank at the start to create life on Earth.

But they ran out of his blood and tried to synthesise the blood which is the black goo, but it doesn't work, it just creates hyper aggressive organisms.

The original script also confirms that they were going to kill us because we killed Jesus...they took him up and showed him their Paradise and he returned to show everyone the way, but we crucified him, so they were returning to eliminate us for being too barbaric.

Artistically, I can see why they left it mysterious. They still left the breadcrumbs, but left you to work it out on your own.