How A Prometheus' Director's Cut Could Improve The Flawed Prequel

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Here's how a Prometheus director's cut could fix some of the ambitious but flawed prequel's issues. When it comes to director cuts of movies, Ridley Scott is a filmmaker who often comes to mind. The reputation of his 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner increased dramatically with the release of his director's cut, which removed the terrible, studio-imposed «happy» ending and Harrison Ford's monotone voice-over. His new cuts of The Counselor — which received largely negative reviews upon release — and Kingdom Of Heaven also saw those projects been completely reassessed.

Scott is so closely tied to director cuts that studios have even tried to use this reputation to sell «extended» versions of his other movies on home media. The longer cuts of Gladiator orThe Martian restore little that's essential to their stories, however, while the 2003 Alien: Director's Cut actually runs slightly shorter and the reinsertion of the unnecessary «Eggmorphing» sequence only displayed why it was originally cut. The director has shown little interest in revisiting his Alien prequel Prometheus, but ironically, it's one of his movies that probably needs it most.

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Prometheus followed a team of scientists landing on a remote planet in hopes of discovering the origins of mankind, only to meet their unfriendly makers. It's an ambitious, visually rich sci-fi adventure, but it was let down by dumb characters and bizarre storytelling choices. The movie also cut out some great sequences, many of which would help alleviate some of its issues. For example, one of the most commonly critiqued scenes involved biologist Millburn (Rafe Spall) attempting to pet a very dangerous alien creature,