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With ‘Prometheus’ out today in the UK and tomorrow in the US on home release, Empire has posted an intriguing interview with the original screenwriter of the film, Jon Spaihts. The writer shares a number of fascinating details about what might have been if director Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof hadn’t changed the script later down the line. One particular change includes the addition of facehuggers, “I did have facehuggers in my original draft. David, as he began to get fascinated by the science of the Engineers, doesn’t deliberately contaminate Holloway with a drop of black liquid. Instead, Holloway hubristically removes his helmet in the chamber, is knocked unconscious, facehugged and wakes up not knowing what had been done to him, and stumbles back into the ship.” Spaihts continues, “In my draft, he returns to his cabin, is embraced by Shaw, who is delighted to see him having feared that he had died, and the two of them make love,” he goes on to say. “And it’s while they’re making love that he bursts and dies. So that lovemaking sequence echoed my original lovemaking sequence where he explodes! It was messy.”

Furthermore, Jon Spaihts spoke on his initial vision for Michael Fassbender’s David being a much more sinister version of the character compared to one we meet in the final cinematic cut of ‘Prometheus,’ “David, fascinated by these creatures, begins delaying the mission and going off the reservation on his own, essentially because he thinks he really belongs with the Engineers. They’re smart enough and sophisticated enough, great enough, to be his peers. He’s harboring a deep-seated contempt for his human makers. So at one point Shaw goes to stop him and David ties her up and deliberately exposes her to a facehugger. He caresses an egg open and out comes a facehugger.  David doesn’t smell like a person – his breath isn’t moist – so he can handle the thing like a kitten. It doesn’t want him; it’s not interested. But then he exposes it to her and it goes for her like a shot. He toys with her for a bit and then lets it take her. That, in my draft, was how Shaw was implanted with the parasite that she had to remove with the medpod sequence.

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20th Century Fox has revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that they are moving ahead with a sequel to Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus.’ Grossing over $300 million at the worldwide box office from a $130 million budget, the studio and Scott are said to be eyeing a 2014 or 2015 release for the ‘Prometheus’ sequel. Although it’s unclear whether or not the original films co-writer Damon Lindelof will be returning due to other commitments, both Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace are signed up to return as David and Elizabeth Shaw, respectively. “Ridley is incredibly excited about the movie, but we have to get it right. We can’t rush it,” says 20th Century Fox president of production Emma Watts, who also has overseen the successful reboots of the ‘X-Men’ and ‘Planet of the Apes’ franchises by turning over the reigns to innovative filmmakers.

‘Prometheus’ was released this June and starred Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie, Rafe Spall, Logan Marshall-Green, and Guy Pearce. It marked director Ridley Scott’s long-awaited return to science-fiction, a genre he helped define with ‘Alien’ and ‘Blade Runner.’ Scott is currently at work on his Cormac McCarthy-scripted thriller, ‘The Counselor,’ which has Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Dean Norris and John Leguizamo starring. You can check out my interviews for ‘Prometheus’ here: Ridley Scott. Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, and Charlize Theron. Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Guy Pearce. Charlize Theron. Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof. Noomi Rapace. Michael Fassbender and Logan-Marshall-Green.