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10 Films That Directors Just Made Up On The Fly

Have you heard about Alien: Covenant? The film that was Prometheus 2 then Alien: Paradise Lost, before it adopted its current title, may be in trouble. Not the kind of trouble that Prometheus faced (namely, putting Damon Lindelof in charge of the script) - this is much worse. Ben Child at the Guardian has added up all the info we have on Covenant so far and come to the conclusion that Ridley Scott is seemingly just making the film up as he goes.

6) Knight Of Cups

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For years, Terrence Malick has been moving away from traditional storytelling and towards a kind of abstract, dialogue-light experimentation. It seemed like Malick had reached his limit in pushing this style with the ponderous To the Wonder, but this year’s Knight of Cups went even further. Anyone left perplexed by the film will be relieved to discover the cast, and indeed Malick himself seemingly, also had little idea of what the film was about.

There had been a script, but star Christian Bale never saw any pages, and it appeared as though Malick wasn’t drawing from it anyway. Bale, despite having worked with Malick before, was clueless as to what the film would turn out to be. As has become his wont, Malick effectively made the movie in the edit bay, spending two years molding the reams of footage he now collects like materials for a canvas.