Both movies were cinematic masterpieces and very flawed, very boring watch. I have no idea who are the people who die in Covenant, because some of them appear only when killed, and I have zero idea where Noir Ken goes to and what for, because the plot resembles breadcrumbs drowned in orange pudding.
This out of mind: imagine to be Ridley Scott and saying “Imma let go the possibility to make a followup to the thing that is, essentially entirely mine, and instead I will focus on part of a franchise that is no longer mine and frankly, I don’t even understand how far it went to”.
I think you are touching on the tension that exists between studio involvement and filmmakers, especially when the latter doesn’t have the pull to do whet they want or the project is somewhat under the radar and studio is giving more leash. Prey was great last year in large part because the director had a long leash to do what he wanted.
No one of us was there, we have no idea about the details and specifics of the project, so we can only guess how things went and who is “guilty” here.
What we know for sure is that we were given Alien:Covenant, possibly the worst part of the franchise, with practically no redeeming value, a movie that contradicted the lore of the universe and its own. And that it was directed by Scott.
Both movies were cinematic masterpieces and very flawed, very boring watch. I have no idea who are the people who die in Covenant, because some of them appear only when killed, and I have zero idea where Noir Ken goes to and what for, because the plot resembles breadcrumbs drowned in orange pudding.
This out of mind: imagine to be Ridley Scott and saying “Imma let go the possibility to make a followup to the thing that is, essentially entirely mine, and instead I will focus on part of a franchise that is no longer mine and frankly, I don’t even understand how far it went to”.
Sounds about right.
I think you are touching on the tension that exists between studio involvement and filmmakers, especially when the latter doesn’t have the pull to do whet they want or the project is somewhat under the radar and studio is giving more leash. Prey was great last year in large part because the director had a long leash to do what he wanted.
No one of us was there, we have no idea about the details and specifics of the project, so we can only guess how things went and who is “guilty” here.
What we know for sure is that we were given Alien:Covenant, possibly the worst part of the franchise, with practically no redeeming value, a movie that contradicted the lore of the universe and its own. And that it was directed by Scott.