MOVIE NEWS – Ridley Scott says he made a massive mistake with the Alien movies…

Ridley Scott recently recalled mistakenly believing that the Alien franchise was dead after Alien: Resurrection. Speaking to Total Film, Scott – who worked as an executive producer on the recently released Alien: Romulus – reflected that there was a period after the release of the 1997 sequel when he thought the sci-fi horror saga would never recover.

Alien: Romulus proved that even now, more than 25 years after the release of Alien 4, the Alien movies still have something to offer with the right combination of story and purpose – and, of course, a great monster. For Scott, this creature has always been the most important to the franchise. But there really was a time when he thought that even the imposing presence of the Xenomorph was enough. He put it like this:

“I think, wrongly, on Alien I thought the old beast had worn out.”

“Because when we did the first [set of films], it was me, Jim [Cameron], David [Fincher], and the French guy [Jean-Pierre Jeunet] — there were four. They wore out. The beast wore out, and, in a funny kind of way, I found the beast partly by accident. Without that alien, you wouldn’t have ever had this film. With all the great casting in the world, when you have a film where it’s about being locked in with a creature — you better have the creature right. And so many of these things are terrible. And it depends on what that monster is and how you play with it when mostly less is better for tension. And it’s easier to have a blood and gore film with no tension. And so it died.”

Ridley Scott also realized the Alien franchise was never dead

Of course, the Alien universe didn’t die with the final chapter of Ellen Ripley’s story. After all, the Xenomorph later two Alien vs. He also appeared in Predator, and Scott eventually returned to the franchise with its two prequels, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. As he noted:

“And I sat and thought, ‘What a pity, because this is a huge franchise — maybe biggest apart from Star Wars and Star Trek ever — with legs.’ Because there’s still a long way to go with it. So I sat down with Damon Lindelof, actually. We sat down at a table, and spun a wheel to see: where could we go? And it all began with Prometheus.”

Both of Scott’s films underperformed at the box office, leading to the scrapping of his third “tie-in” film between Covenant and 1979’s Alien. However, everything happens for a reason. Now, Noah Hawley’s prequel TV series is closing in on the original Alien, and many believe that placing its timeline 30 years before the discovery of the Nostromo means that this story could replace the story Scott would have told in the lost prequel.

Source: GamesRadar