8 Things Prometheus 2 Must Do To Avoid Being Terrible

8. Don't Keep Switching Screenwriters

Popular opinion would have you believe that Damon Lindelof is to blame for many of Prometheus' problems €“ fuzzy themes and foggy endings are his forte, after all €“ but he wasn't the only writer on the project, and let's not forget that the last script he handed in was the one Ridley Scott decided would become his next film. Jon Spaihts was Prometheus' original screenwriter, and his take on the material was reportedly much closer to being the true Alien prequel that many envisioned, but Ridley Scott wasn't satisfied with the material and replaced Spaihts with Lindelof to take Prometheus in a new direction. Granted, it's worked for Scott in the past - having two consecutive screenwriters work on (and go slightly mad) adapting Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sleep? and being subjected to the director's every whim and desired change, no matter how small, resulted in the screenplay that would become Blade Runner - but as that was 32 years ago it can hardly be considered the best example, and that method certainly isn't foolproof, as Spaihts and Lindelof have proven. Perhaps sticking with one writer might result in a more cohesive, less muddled film that's clear about what story it's telling, rather than having two or more very different contributors pulling the script towards their separate comfort zones in addition to diluting their own personalities to accommodate the notoriously precise director.