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Damon Lindelof on Ridley Scott - On The Verge

2012-05-19
well so the movie a lot of the ideas are actually the seeds are from Ridley directly absolutely because a aside from its relationship to the original alien which is a question iterations of that question are the things that I've been asked about the most I'm looking forward to it at the end of the day when you're working with Ridley Scott it's not about me coming in and saying hey Ridley I've got this great idea do you want to direct it it's about him saying I want to direct a movie in this universe here's what I want it to be about who are the ideas that excite me here are the thematics that I'm interested in and here are the character traits that I want to demonstrate and it's it's it not to reduce the process of screenwriting but I feel like in film which is much different than what i did in TV it is a little bit like mad libs where my job is essentially you know really saying adjective noun you know euphemism and that's how the movie was made yeah that's a and that exactly I'm sure he'll be excited when to hear that you describe the doing thinking processes mad libs
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