10 Movies That DELIBERATELY Didn't Give Fans What They Wanted

10. Prometheus

The marketing for Ridley Scott's Prometheus promoted it as effectively a direct prequel to Alien, implying that the events depicted in this new film would dovetail directly into those of Scott's 1979 original.

But as it turned out, that wasn't the case at all.

While Jon Spaihts' original script was indeed more of a straight-up prequel, the decision was ultimately made - by either Scott or Fox - to have Lost's Damon Lindelof rewrite the script into something less explicitly linked to Alien.

Fans were left frustrated that they were sold an Alien prequel only to end up with an adjacent sort-of prequel that refused to commit to fully teeing-up the events of the entire series.

Shifting the setting from the original film's planetoid LV-426 to the moon LV-223 felt like an act of cowardice, as though Lindelof and Scott wanted to more-or-less imply what happened prior to Alien, yet with plausible deniability to uncouple it from Alien if it didn't go down well with fans.

Frustratingly Scott pulled this again with sequel Alien: Covenant, which rather than follow the thread of Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) visiting the Engineer homeworld, killed her off-screen and basically delivered a schlocky slasher movie rehash of the original Alien.