Quoted from Dreamscale Secondly, using Alien for an example is just plain crazy.  If you know the history of this script, you'll know that there were many hands involved, many drafts and rewrites, and many, many inspirations and references. You have no idea who wrote what pieces of whatever draft you posted or read.

David Giler took Dan and Ron's script and wrote the version that became the movie.

He changed the characters. He changed the ship. He changed everything. All he kept was the IDEA of the alien born of the chestburster scene and then killing off the crew one by one.

There may have been an assist from Walter Hill... but what you see on screen is from David Giler's script.

Quoted from DustinBowcot So you decided the flowery writing was on point, the professional reader didn't... and the reader is wrong. Did anybody else believe the flowery writing was on point?

Literally everyone involved, outside of the reader, thought the script was aces as it as written. The only deterrent was this reader who preferred a more "to the point" approach at action lines.

Quoted from Steven Literally everyone involved, outside of the reader, thought the script was aces as it as written. The only deterrent was this reader who preferred a more "to the point" approach at action lines.

OK... link me to the thread.

Also.. if the script was so great, why didn't he just sell it to somebody else? Or, did they not see the magic either?