Steve Phillips
Screenwriter
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I don't know if they are going to do anything to contradict the second mini-series or the TV series, maybe they just aren't going to dwell on it. It sounds like the movie will begin with a war torn Earth still fighting the aliens after 20 years, which makes sense. They don't have to go out of their way to create continuity errors; but rather just take the story in the direction they want without going into to all the back history of the red dust, star child, and all of that. That way, the story can work if one has seen only the original mini-series; and we can just take the events of TFB and the series as another subplot in a larger story.
To ignore the rest would be the lazy way out. Even if Johnson wasn't happy with what happened, a little creative writing can solve it easily. This is the same thing as the Halloween series did, and it was a dumb idea then. Even if previous sequels weren't so good, why not come up with an inventive way around it rather than just throw in the towel and keep starting over?
To ignore the rest would be the lazy way out. Even if Johnson wasn't happy with what happened, a little creative writing can solve it easily. This is the same thing as the Halloween series did, and it was a dumb idea then. Even if previous sequels weren't so good, why not come up with an inventive way around it rather than just throw in the towel and keep starting over?