'alien' Prequel Gets An Awesome Rewrite By Damon Lindelof, Could Star Natalie Portman

Terri Schwartz, MTV Movies Blog
Wed, 10/13/2010 - 8:23am

Surprise, surprise: Damon Lindelof's rewrite of Ridley Scott's "Alien" prequel has allegedly made the film infinitely more awesome. Culture Vulture got the exclusive that executives at Fox read the new draft of the screenplay (originally penned by Jon Spaihts) and were "very pleased with it indeed." While all of Vulture's sources were sworn to secrecy on [...]

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