Ridley Scott "Wasn't Happy" Not Directing The Alien Sequels

Ridley Scott "Wasn't Happy" Not Directing The Alien Sequels
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[@cardaderdention]

I don’t think we should take away from what Ridley contributed to the first Alien film either. Obviously the incredible cinematography and direction is squarely on him, and he was adamant about using Giger’s Xeno design. (At Dan O’bannon’s request) But yes, Dan O’Bannon deserves equal credit.

[@MidnightatMidian]

Well that's not the problem and was discussed in this video. Of course he did an amazing job on his side but... The problem is that he relentlessly took credits over most people deeply implicated in the project. Also that he's becoming senile, and he's over-inflating his ego. It's really bad coming 50 years later and saying- You know what??? I DID ALIEN. Alone. It was my ideas all along. Wtf Ridley??

[@davidscholesphotographer]

He also insisted on the scene inside the derelict with the 'space jockey' - the studio was trying to scrap that bit for time and budget but Ridley insisted it would take the film to 'A' tier and he was right

[@chad832]

So much extra work and outside thinking went into that movie ALIEN. From the set designers. Model makers w/ their low buget much like star wars. Ridley just came in and directed it... he did good. But def. Not his vision.

[@redpillnibbler4423]

Yes he was great back then at being PART OF A TEAM.

[@slang1517]

@@davidscholesphotographer Ridley also insisted that Ripley die at the end of the movie, but the studio didn't allow him to do it. The studio was right.

[@sheepman6291]

Alien isolation nailed it better than Ridley's sequels ever could

[@user-yg1jd6dt1b]

Bingo

[@bryanpate9531]

Definitely need to play that game it has to be like 20 bucks now

[@filmgoblin5016]

You mean prequels since he didn’t make sequels.

[@makocrab2223]

Absolutely. For me, I only count parts 1, 2 & Isolation.

[@RyanG0899]

Isolation is the best thing to come out of this entire franchise. Something that's actually scary.

[@patrickfinlay2074]

Alien was a success due HR Giger and his wonderful design

[@origamipein18]

Even I know that.

[@SmartCookie2022]

There's a lot of reasons why Alien was a success. But most of it was down to Dan O'Bannon.

[@RoaryUK]

Nearly all of the original Aliens success was down to a collaborated effort by 3 people, O'Bannon, Scott and Giger and in that order.

[@RyoMassaki]

@@RoaryUK 5 people. Don't forget Ron Cobb's design of the Nostromo's interior and Jerry Goldsmith's music...

[@redpillnibbler4423]

It was a lightning in a bottle type thing.

[@cirescythe]

I dont regret him not directing the Alien sequel. Cameron did an amazing job and singlehandedly made a monster of the week one off into a whole fleshed out universe.

[@doodguy]

Ridley should be hands off. He’s the George Lucas of the series. He lost it. I’m also dead pissed that he shot down the sequel to Aliens with Hicks, Newt and Ridley.

[@wurm4676]

Ridley did a lot of storyboarding that got the movie's budget increased that includes SOME - not the alien Giger stuff - of what we see in the movie. He didn't write the script but had a hand in why it looks the way it does. And yeah he's full of himself, he's Hollywood; they're all crazy.

[@EVLAQXZ]

He had the chance to do whatever he wanted with Prometheus that other one, and he gave us the lame goo, and robots playing flutes in suspect scenes about fingering.

[@chindleymuffin]

Damon Lindelof ruined the original script with his rewrites from what I have gleaned from various articles and behind the scenes videos. The scriptwriter that JJ Abrams brought in to write the Lost TV series and was an uncredited script editor on Star Trek Into Darkness (a.k.a. The Reverse of Khan) and The Mummy reboot with Tom Cruise. He's Kurtzman's buddy boy as well, so you can see why Prometheus was so bad.

[@TheSAFEone09]

Scott bought him to rewrite the script and then decided to mainly go with DL so its still on him, think the ideal script is somewhere in the middle as original was good but a bit by the numbers. Scott just thought he would spin gold, no need in working it all out, thats the work Obannon etc had already done for him on Alien for which he's now claiming credit, shameful.

[@RoaryUK]

Wrong! Prometheus is actually a very good movie, partly ruined by some bad writing and creative choices by the studio at the time, NON of which had anything to do with Scott. Covenant was really ruined by Fox because they were more concerned about pleasing people who wanted to see more aliens, and even had Scott change direction from the movie he intended called Paradise Lost.

[@RoaryUK]

@@TheSAFEone09 Fox brought in Lindlelof after Scott rejected Jon Spaihts Alien: Engineers script, because he felt it was too tied to Alien, which he was trying to avoid.

[@EVLAQXZ]

@@RoaryUK they are alright.. kinda ruined the alien lore a bit, I liked it better when it was designed or at least stumbled across by the engineers/space jockey, not created by a creation of man which was created by the engineers, makes it far less.. “alien”. But he’s whinging about wishing he did sequels, and he did 2 of them.

[@swamisalami3000]

He didn't write both of them. He directed them

[@redpillnibbler4423]

He directed them into the toilet bowl then took a shit on them and flushed it all away to David the android sewage works inc.

[@Anesa100]

I am still dumbfounded why Alien Isolation was not a bigger successs. Now imagine it as a movie! They just don't get it! We love Alien, Queen and everything related to that!

[@jamiefugazi6974]

I reckon the queen is gonna defo factor into Romulus. Fede is a beast.

[@jdogjohnson382]

Not going to ever be a better sequel to Alien than Aliens it perfectly concluded Ripley's story.

[@usern4metak3ns]

aliens ended open to a sequel. however I don't think alien 3 was the proper sequel. Ripley would have ran a bio scan of the shuttle after what they had all survived. the mother alien didn't have time to make another egg laying pouch or anything. so a random facehugger on board while they were in cryo, is unlikely, unless of course Weyland intercepted the shuttle first and put one on board.

[@RoaryUK]

Alien3 was the perfect conclusion to Ripleys story.

[@jdogjohnson382]

@@RoaryUK nooo!

[@alwaysmusic2592]

Alien 3 was - in my opinion - the worst ending ever to Ripleys story. A story can be dark, heartfelt and scary without the main character dying - especially survivor-characters like Ripley (and Newt). There's a reason the two first movies are universally loved, while opinions start to divide after that. I for one would have loved to see Blomkamps idea develop.

[@MidnightatMidian]

They basically made a version of ''Platoon'' in space with xenos, but whatever...

[@darthgibsonlp6631]

Ridley completely disappeared up his own arse right about the time that Prometheus came out. His ego was always there but it went on steroids after that

[@ottooctavius9552]

Based on what? He seemed more sad than egotistical.

[@RoaryUK]

You don't know what you're talking about, and in case you never noticed, Scott doesn't call the shots on his movies any more than he gets to make the movies he wants unless the studio wants it first.

[@ottooctavius9552]

@@RoaryUK yeah he gets the hate when it goes wrong and none of the credit when it goes right.

[@marks9233]

His brother committed suicide around the time of Prometheus. I think he gets a pass from me.

[@DavidBaillie1986]

Considering Alien covenant was absolutely atrocious he's still not as unhappy as the audience were

[@seaofenergy2765]

Yeah how to kill the mystery and intrigue and 'alien'-ness of the xenomorph and its origins in one movie. 'An ai dun it' and 'oooh bioweapon'... if there were ever words written in crayon by someone with no concept of what the real magic of the xenomorph is, it was these ones. I refuse to accept it as canon.

[@user-yg1jd6dt1b]

Omg that was so bad, ffs CGI Aliens.

[@RoaryUK]

Alien Covenant was a change in direction from the movie Scott intended, instigated by Fox who were more concerned with pleasing a bunch of idiots that wanted to see more aliens.

[@jamiefugazi6974]

@@user-yg1jd6dt1b Prometheus CGI actually looked amazing and beats the shit outta Covenant as did the movie. Covenant looked nearly as bad as Alien 3.

[@marks9233]

I liked it. David was so menacingly, brilliantly insane. I love how there are two monsters coming from different sides in the good Alien movies. Ash. Burke. David. Fassbender was brilliant, I thought. "...the man who broke the bank at Monte Caaaarlo"

[@swamisalami3000]

Aliens is a bloody classic.

[@thedeadlynose5127]

My second favourite film

[@desmondkaczynski8190]

@@thedeadlynose5127my first honestly, I love aliens more but I love alien as a horror movie

[@thedeadlynose5127]

@desmondkaczynski8190 yeah so do my favorite film is the thing second favorite film is aliens

[@adrianfox7972]

What a horrible thought, imagine Aliens not existing as it does now. Somewhere in a parallel universe that might have happened

[@CommanderViviax]

A hilarious thing is one of his first projects was a advert for Hovis. Were a Victorian era boy rides a bicycle up a hill, delivering bread.

[@halley4032]

Absolute classic - cycling up that cobbled road, to Dvorak's New World Symphony I grew up fairly near that part of the country, except where I lived, was flat as a pancake, so those hills were quite wonderous to me!

[@albundy774]

Normally there was a spoof of an original film however "ALIEN" was a serious take on the John Carpenter sci fi truckers in space comedy "DARK STAR" that was written by Dan O' Bannon

[@RoverIAC]

Ridley Scott has mad more bad Alien films than good ones.

[@D88niel]

I'm kind of happy he never did (before he sadly did) look how that turned out.

[@zw246]

“ I don’t care, suck it I guess” 😂😂😂 I love British people

[@clayjohanson]

Thank God Ridley didn’t direct “Aliens” or “Blade Runner 2049”. He would have ruined them both with his constant revisionism.

[@gregddd1]

Mr. H, your a little hard on Sir Scott. If you look at the Alien extras (little films explaining the behind the scenes and background of Alien) Sir Scott has a whole hell of a lot of input into the story and the look of Alien. Sir Ridley Scott is a master of the cinema and I'm glad he's still around. To me Alien, Gladiator, and The Martian are brilliant films!

[@elskeletor3566]

Ridley needs to stop making sequels to his films. He has lost alot of his creativity as he has gotten older.

[@crankywombat2598]

No he just doesn't care for anything but his ego now.. age doesn't have anything to do with it. To much praise and credit for what he actually has done and achieved has gotten him here. Just my opinion

[@elskeletor3566]

@@crankywombat2598 I would say most of the Directors from the 70's 80's and 90's have lost their creativity. This goes for Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott have seemed to lost what made them great Director's from the past.

[@halley4032]

@@elskeletor3566Probably Cameron too, who, IMO, has spent far too much time on the Blue cartoon people (Smurfs ?). The reasoning may be related more to ego than age. In the early days of their career, living on a 'shoestring' they were possibly more receptive to team ideas in some regard, and also more focussed. As they became more famous, and powerful, surrounded by more sycophants, they naturally lose all sense of reality. Possibly ;-)

[@desmondkaczynski8190]

Eh creativity? No but he just adds the same elements to everyone of his films, he loves robots and shit. It’s annoying that he doesn’t even want to make alien movies, he just wants to say that they are apart of the movies he directs cuz it’s a profitable name

[@andrewglazebrook1585]

Although 20th Century Fox were skeptical about the idea, they agreed to finance the development of the story, but asked that Hill and Giler attempt to get Ridley Scott, director of Alien, to make Alien 3. They also asked that the two films be shot back to back to lessen the production costs. While Scott was interested in returning to the franchise, it did not work out due to the director’s busy schedule. - Wiki

[@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser]

He's jealous because James Cameron took an idea and made it bigger!! This is why Ridley Scott stopped Neil Blomkamp from doing an alien reboot continuing from ALIENS. THE ALIEN FRANCHISE IS MINE!! (and no one elses!!) Ridley Scott

[@PAUL-ow8gr]

The story's after 3 didn't do justice to gigers terrifying creation 😢, hope Romulus gives us what we all want.

[@abrimfulofasha]

Yeah also, Alien was inspired by three earlier movies.... It! The Terror From Beyond Space! and Planet of the Vampires.

[@anubusx]

Thank you for pointing that out. I tell a lot of people how those films inspired it.

[@collecting2131]

Mr H doesnt seem to understand how important a director is to a movie. Alien would be a completely different film tonally and visually if Scott hadnt directed it and it arguably wouldnt be a cult classic today.

[@darhammora7867]

I wish he's given the chance to complete David story in Covenant sequel

[@RoaryUK]

If Romulus is a success at the box office Scott will get to finish his prequels with one more movie. That's partly why he is producing Romulus. A) because he likes what Alverez is doing, and B) because as producer he then gets a shot at the franchise.

[@catpin]

And if there was a case about John Mctiernan wasn't happy not directing Predator sequels and same with Paul W S Anderson with AVPR Aliens Vs Predator Requiem Requiem.

[@cliffordhayes4288]

Saw a documentary on the making of Prometheus this week. I’d had reservations about the film’s editing (still do) but the doc showed SRS’s involvement with EVERYTHING during filming / production and can now appreciate how much work he does on his films. The guy’s non-stop; not bad for a guy his age.

[@pclord20xx]

Thank you for being the one to finally set the record straight that Alien does not belong to Ridley Scott. Just a director to tell where the cameras to point and shoot.

[@arc7375]

This is very reminiscent of everyone thinking and giving credit to Tim Burton for things like “The Nightmare before Christmas” when in actuality, it was _Henry Selick._

[@RoaryUK]

While that's true about Burton and Nightmare Before Christmas, Scott had a lot to do with the success of Alien than some people realise.

[@TETRARCHFREAK]

James Cameron directing Aliens was the right choice he built Upon Alien and expanded the Universe and Turned Ripley into one of the best Bad ass female leads of all time. I liked what Ridley Scott did and directed and he should be proud of Alien Prometheus and Alien Covenant

[@PeterParker-qh7bl]

Who would've thought that we would have one of the most iconic scariest monsters to ever be seen on the silver screen when we saw the beach ball with the clawed feet, whilst we watched the comedy Sci-Fi film Dark Star. It was Dan O'Bannon who took his idea further and with collaborations with others and his vision. Alien was created. It was pure genius to ask H. R. Giger to design the creature that shocked and scared us all so much. Ridley did an absolutely brilliant job with his cinematography. It was excellent. But he screwed things up big time with Prometheus and Covenant. If he had gone down the road of telling the story of how Weyland Yutani had known about the crashed ship on LV426 and the presence of the alien species in the first place and added more as to why Ash replaced the Nostromo's science officer at the last minute. That would've, in my view, been a better road to take on the prequels. I remember seeing an interview with Scott just after he had finished Covenant and he was saying in a very cock sure way that in around 14 months or just over he would be shining our screens with the 3rd installment of his planned trilogy of prequels. But because it bombed that bad at the cinema, he didn't get green lit for the 3rd film. I'm so glad as it was getting so silly and away from the whole essence of the Alien films by saying that the aliens were created by David. Which was not mentioned in any of the sequel movies. I found Ridley on the interview to be very big headed and arrogant. Which came back and bit him in his backside.

[@Frosenborg]

Everything really wasn't there, sure the script was but the budget was only 4 million at the time when Ridley took the job. Ridley's storyboard made the producers realize that 4 million wasn't enough and the budget was doubled.

[@vorlon010]

Scott's huge problem is he's much more interested in the 'alien in alien being the creature we created (the android). I'm not a zealot who would say that Alien or Bladerunner were badly directed, but I *will* say that the best part of both films was the writing.

[@TheNinjaMarmot]

I think you're being a bit harsh with Ridley Scott. He contributed greatly to Alien, you can see his excellent work in many other movies too. The guy is one of my top 10 directors of all time.

[@slang1517]

He contributed even more to Prometheus and Covenant and those films were dog water.

[@xKynOx]

I really liked Prometheus, Alien Covenant was a piece o'shite.

[@Elderpredator]

Ridley Scott the beast is done have we gotta reinvent the whole thing

[@adrianfox7972]

We've seen Ridley take on Alien with the prequel failures, so can tell his ideas weren't what made the original awesome. It was sad when H R Giger got ignored during Alien 3 making as well, without him there would be no Alien and they just ignored his visual ideas for the next film and disrespected him on his visits. These hollywood people seem to have no respect for the original creators of anything.

[@ritchierich2793]

Thats james Cameron's alien 2 buddy..

[@adrianfox7972]

@@ritchierich2793 how do you mean?

[@ritchierich2793]

@@adrianfox7972 the H R giger things, he got snub first by james Cameron?? Thats why he never returned to that franchise after..

[@adrianfox7972]

@@ritchierich2793 didn't know that. Heard Cameron designed the queen alien. Would have been polite to have him in and get his take on things. I can't help thinking that a really good Alien 3 would have had more of Giger's input.

[@ritchierich2793]

@@adrianfox7972 i saw it on someone's breakdown or think was the anniversary of alien 2 bts/ documentary.. How they started off by saying James Cameron wanted to start from scratch and heading in different directions for alien 2.. Its kinda of known too since everyone in the community knows how politics the alien franchise was (and kinda still is under ridley Scott's prequels)

[@Residentevilgal]

The look and the pacing of the first flick is absolutely him.

[@desmondkaczynski8190]

He called James Cameron, “Jim” 🤦‍♂️

[@Mean_Jean]

Ridley scott does have an awful big ego...for someone who's better at making a pretty looking movie with a messed up storyline Not to mention he wanted to lean towards robots than aliens for the franchise...we want the alien

[@joegoosebass3958]

Aliens is great but the original Alien is one of the all time masterpieces of movie making

[@redpillnibbler4423]

I second that! It’s in a class of its own.

[@vlcheish]

Agreed.

[@alansmithee3336]

I think Aliens is dumb and obnoxious in comparision. It hasn't aged well and it has none of the original's artfulness

[@vlcheish]

​@@alansmithee3336 Yep. The characters are more caricatures(marines are mostly idiots, Burke is over the top evil, Weyland-Yutani execs are cartoonish when interviewing Ripley not believing anything from her) The original movie worked so well because of how natural everyone was in it. For some reason everyone gets a giant hard on Bill Paxton playing an idiot 80s surfer guy as a space marine. Most of the character interactions don't make sense. Why was Vasquez called an illegal Alien? This is the future with space travel and space colonies. They are acting like this is the 20th century still focusing on migrants crossing borders. It's just dumb down film making. Aliens does things very well but my god anytime I hear some rube say Aliens is the better movie I want to put my head through the wall.

[@redpillnibbler4423]

@@alansmithee3336 It’s a different style of film altogether,I like that it’s so different and doesn’t disrespect the original. Having said that if no sequels had been made to the original I’d be very happy indeed.The mystery of the alien and the pilot was the core of what made it so great. I’m actually a big fan of Alien 3 and in many ways (with the relevant continuity change) wished it had been the sequel to Alien as it continued the tone of Alien extremely well and kept the mystery.I’d also have liked it to have incorporated the ‘egg morphing’ aspect of the alien lifecycle.That would have been very cool.

[@mattbrent873]

My take in Ridley's view on " The beast is dead" has always been you merely have to look at the world of alien off screen to see how much that world is beloved. All the books and comics never mind all the games that people keep on buying and playing happily. I've owned pretty much every game surrounding the alien franchise and loved them all. To me both Prometheus and alien covenant where just terrible. if they would have not been set in the aliens universe but instead another universe entirely they wouldn't have been as bad.

[@Combatgoblin83]

“Please subscribe …… unless you’re one of the people I told to go suck it” 😂😂😂😂

[@Ghosthound_X]

I don't know Mr. H Ridley was still the one that made the final calls during production of the original. From my understanding it was Ridley that wanted to bring in H.R. Giger because he had seen his book. Had Ridley not been there we would have had a very different looking Alien movie. They had different famous sci Fi artists of the time whipping up different designs for the alien and the locations of the movie.

[@eddiehjalmarsson5966]

By the way, the reason Giger was working in Hollywood was because of Alejandro Jodorowsky back in the seventies when he was working on a dune adaptation.

[@reidsimpson4213]

Ridley Scott has become the Abe Simpson of cinema.

[@ottooctavius9552]

What ego? Prometheus and Covenant gave us so much world building and was heading in a great direction. It’s a genuine shame we won’t be able to see his vision completed.

[@RoaryUK]

Yes we will if Romulus is a hit.

[@slang1517]

Prometheus and covenant killed the franchise. Worse than AVP ever could.

[@ottooctavius9552]

@@RoaryUK I don’t know if you were commenting to the right person here because that made no sense

[@ottooctavius9552]

@@slang1517 it really didn’t. It made so much money at the time and spawned several games, comics and other stuff as a result. Fans like you complain when you get the same thing over and over again but also complain when you get something different. There’s just no pleasing you. AVP was the best thing to happen to both franchises. They’re both synonymous with each other now.

[@slang1517]

@@ottooctavius9552 you have no idea what kind of fan I am. That’s just your excuse to ignore people that realise Prometheus is stupid. Avp games were great. The movies were terrible. Only a 12 year old would think they are of comparable quality to alien and aliens

[@birdboy82]

Is Sir Scott becoming senile slowly but surely or is his ego popping out like a chestburster ready to rise and shine ?

[@origamipein18]

Both.

[@markjames8603]

Fox should have used the Canon created by Dark Horse comics

[@BonsaiM]

Alcoholism combined with his narcissism.

[@birdboy82]

@@BonsaiM lool 😅

[@MikeB-us5cg]

Both. Time, alcoholism, and ego have basically eroded his capabilities.

[@user-le4sm4wd1e]

Dan O Bannon was the creator of Alien. John Carpenter's Dark Star was the genesis. I was really disappointed with Aliens in 1986, it looked like a cheap cash-in at the cinema and introducing a queen totally undermined the original concept. The original Alien is a masterpiece, Aliens is a decent action b-movie, nothing more.

[@user-le4sm4wd1e]

@@ArcanumAscent The final 30 minutes are ridiculous, it's strips away all the realism that made the first film so good. I enjoy Aliens but I have to turn my brain off to do so. Alien was absolutely awesome at the cinema in 1979, nothing like it had been released before, they nailed the realism. Cameron stripped away all of the realism and horror and turned into an american action film. Not my cup I'm afraid.

[@SmartCookie2022]

@@user-le4sm4wd1e My feelings exactly. Aliens was like a proto-video game which is why it's popular with the gamer generation. The first Alien is more like an arthouse sci-fi horror movie.

[@halley4032]

Aside from the action, set pieces and so on, Aliens was a masterclass in character development. There were a lot of characters in that film, and a few interesting story arcs. The writer made us care about everyone that died. They weren't just cannon fodder, they were real people. That takes skill. Aliens, and The Thing, (and of course Alien), are great examples of how to write characters, so that you care about them.

[@TheSAFEone09]

B-movie is maybe little harsh but Aliens is a film you grow out of and Alien a film you really appreciate more as you get older. One's a timeless classic the others an 80s action flick.

[@user-le4sm4wd1e]

@@TheSAFEone09 I only call Aliens a b-movie because that is what it was/is,, a low budget cash-in. Cameron came from the Roger Corman camp and clearly made Aliens better than anyone expected but it is still a low budget film. Compare the 4K discs of Alien and Aliens and one can clearly see the difference,, all the AI in the world will never hide that fact.

[@jond1965]

Aliens was perfect. Not sure he would have done better.

[@charvel1apm]

The "Sir" went straight to his head

[@jonandnao]

I honestly did not know that Ridley Scott didn't jump in Alien until the end. I knew about the other people involved because of the documentaries. Whole new perspective on Scott, I know how he's mostly about the androids than the xenomorph aliens. Thanks for the video!

[@wormskull2454]

“Suck it, I guess” is my mantra in life lol

[@jasonsantos3037]

I am so glad he never directed a sequel to Alien and Blade Runner.

[@Jammet]

While Scott played a pivotal role in directing the first film and shaping its visual and thematic elements, the initial creation of the ALIEN concept can be attributed to screenwriter Dan O'Bannon and his collaborator Ronald Shusett.

[@RoaryUK]

Very true, but you wouldn't think so watching the video or reading some of the dumb comments.

[@fdlp83]

Yes! Finally! Someone gets it in regards to Scott!

[@LukeLovesRose]

I dont care what anyone says. I loved Ridleys Alien prequels. IMHO, theyre better movies than Alien 3. I LOATHE that movie so much. But Ridley Scott could never make Aliens the groundbreaking masterpiece that it is.

[@PAUL-ow8gr]

Love the channel H🎉

[@ooklathemok]

i had no idea that scott was brought in at the last minute. id never heard it before only they had to replace the actor for john hurt

[@RoaryUK]

You never heard it before because it ISN'T true. Scott wasn't first to be considered to direct Alien, but the movie wouldn't have been made at all if it wasn't for his vision. Indeed, Fox only doubled the films budget because of what Scott provided through his storyboard concepts.

[@ooklathemok]

@@RoaryUK Thank you for your reply. i thought this was anomalous because he submitted storyboards as you said

[@UnquenchableHatred]

If Denis Villeneuve hadn't done 2049, we may not of ended up with Dune, if Cameron hadn't done Aliens we may not have had T2 Piss off Scott

[@user-sc9li1qt1e]

According to rumours from the scriptwriters,alien tv series will be as follows: It takes places just before the events in the first alien movie and happens on a planet near where the nostromo spaceship is shipping ore.Weyland-Yutani is on the planet and have terraformed it for years,when they discovers a cave with lots of xenomorph eggs. One of them get's infected and a xenomorph is born. It turns out to be a queen,and a lot of the Weyland-Yutani humans are infected and then a war breaks out.All the humans on the planet are wiped out and only a few manage to escape in a spaceship.Then they nuke the planet from orbit. Then Weyland-Yutani regrets the decision and a hunt for the xenomorph begins.They get a tip that there's a crashed spaceship on lv426 and sends the robot Ash on the Nostromo spaceship.But they are informed that the mission has failed and that Nostromo has gone missing.Then Weyland-Yutani get's a tip about an xenomorph on Fiorina161 and sends a team of researchers there.They finds a surviving prisoner that is impreagnated and a queen is born. Weyland-Yutani then wants to use the xenomorphs on the planets where the engineers are located because they want the technology to seed planets with life. They also want the elixir that provides humans with prolongued life.After they have managed to give birth to a flock of xenomorphs,they drops them on an engineer planet and causes everyone of them to die.Then they get hold of the blue elixir that gives prolongued life.But several ships with engineers that where away from their planet when Weyland-Yutani wiped the population out,pursue them and manages to get the elixir back,but gets trapped on the planet where both parties crash.Then a battle takes place and the crew from Weyland-Yutani gets the elixir that gives them prolongued life for thousands of years,but they are now trapped on the planet,with no means to get anywhere.But then they see a light aproaching,but is the spaceship friends or foes ?

[@jasonsantos3037]

Rarely Scott never created alien he is just a director for higher nothing more and people still believe in that Myth was Dan o'bannon started.

[@johnbrooks1480]

Would you rather pick aliens or terminator 2 as best sequel

[@michaellilly965]

T2 for sure; 100% best sequel.

[@peterkrochmalni673]

ALIENS Special Edition

[@ImmortalRimas]

I think what makes the Alien films great is that they don’t have the same director and don’t have a uniformity about them otherwise they would’ve got stale by number 2. Even though Blade Runner is my all-time favourite film it pains me to say that I’m so glad that Ridley Scott didn’t make any more after making so many cuts of the original

[@paulgutierrez6416]

Prometheus and covenant both were not good. I'm glad that he did not direct the sequels. Bloomkamp should have been able to make his alien movie, I feel like it would have been a' lot better than Prometheus and Covenant.

[@Paul_1971]

Totally agree - the Ridley sequels were awful, would've much preferred to have seen Blomkamps take.

[@paulgutierrez6416]

@@Paul_1971 Yes, Bloomkamp had some good ideas for his movie, scotts ego got in the way.

[@RoaryUK]

@@paulgutierrez6416 I suggest you Google Blomkamp's leaked Alien5 treatment from last year. I guarantee you will change your mind, UNLESS of course, you are a fan of aliens building space ships, AI in charge of everything including W/Y and aliens that were actually intelligent yet somehow they became slaves to the Space Jockey. ALL these things were not only confirmed for Blomkamp's Alien5, but having read what he had in mind, even most fans were turned off by these leaks. Said it before and I'll say it again, the guy is a hack and nothing more. His movie would have even buried Aliens had it seen the light of day and Fox were absolutely right to get this nonsense stopped.

[@michaelclawson6576]

The director commentary on Alien: Covenant made me realize Ridley Scott was just a name to sell the movie as his commentary sounded like a reaction video to "his" movie. Almost like he was never part of the creative process in any meaningful way.

[@RogerLareau-qx2cy]

Like a certain gentleman now running for reelection, Ridley Scott has a hard time with the truth. Anyone who has seen his last two pictures isn't looking forward to anything he creates. Once a great talent, he is now someone who should retire.

[@brandenapexo604]

After what he did with Covenant he should be ashamed of himself, especially after he basically assassinated any chance we could’ve got of Neil Blomkamp Alien movie

[@Chyronn]

We can ponder and speculate what-ifs and regrets. The past is the past. The films are what they are.

[@jamestkirkcameron9189]

Blade Runner is based on the short science fiction book, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.” Written by Philip K. Dick. He is the author of that story. Ridley did a great job with the adaptation, but he isn’t the author of the IP.

[@RoaryUK]

I don't think Alien will ever be beaten, it certainly wasn't beaten by Aliens, but some people just love to bash Scott for all the wrong reasons, when he had quite a lot to do with Alien in reality. It's also well known he wasn't even interested in a sequel for a long time, and I doubt there is any truth in this article whatsoever.

[@vincentletzner8638]

I said it once and I will say it again, Alien was a great movie but it was Aliens that propelled the IP into a franchise.

[@hobbybobley]

Prometheus and Covenant were complete and utter balls. They should never have been made.

[@ChristheCollector_]

I guess we all agree that it is better that he didn't do the sequels, the best proof is the prequels. But maybe he can prove once more that he was the one who created the horror sci-fi genre. Imagine Ridley Scott, James Cameron, David Fincher and Fede Alvarez would do an Alien movie together... mind-blowing...

[@RoaryUK]

Prometheus is a fine movie even with its issues, my only gripe is it would've been better to tell a story about the Engineers rather than our creation. Covenant really isn't good, but that part was down to the studio wanting to give fans who didn't like Prometheus more aliens, when most fans didn't want that in the first place.

[@alansmithee3336]

I understand what you're saying but don't completely agree. The other director's approached about the film before Scott seem to have had some strange ideas about how to handle the material or found it offputting. Only he had the nerve to make it a slow-burning arthouse horror with no big names or happy ending. His background meant he worked in simpatico with the other gifted artists involved. He also had such a hands-on approach he truly was the author of some of it's most memorable sequences. I've rarely seen a horror film (if ever) in which the character's look as genuinely scared or agitated as they do in this one. This was due to things like them not being fully aware of how the chestbusting scene would unfold & Scott going out of his way to encourage tension between the actors.

[@ImmortalRimas]

I think HR Giger should be credited as a co-creator of the Alien franchise before Ridley Scott

[@eagleitalia]

And that's why we got one, contentiously two, decent sequels.

[@athan336]

id take alien resurrection over ridley prequels anyday

[@athan336]

@@ArcanumAscent so did prometheus, and at least we had Ron Perlman

[@athan336]

@@ArcanumAscent nah, a bad movie is still better than a movie that makes no sense and has major plotholes

[@MilesMontague-Einaudi]

Ridley Scott is Elite...one of the best of all time

[@death-king1834]

Ridley Scott had the greatest fortune of having some of the best films he's ever worked on, having had good writers to provide him with good screenplays to work with. Do you really think the original Alien would have been anywhere near as good without the likes of Dan O'Bannon's original screenplay? Or the likes of Blade Runner without David Peoples and Hampton Fancher's script?

[@topman200000]

Dan O'Bannon never gets the credit he deserves

[@Buckeyefarmer]

You know he's the reason Neill Blomkamp's Alien film got canned. It was way too much for his ego that some other guy was making an Alien film with Sigourney Weaver. It was going to upstage his prequels.

[@ChockHolocaust]

And we weren't happy watching either those, or the bloody awful ones he did direct. He went off the boil years ago. His name on a project used to be a positive thing, but these days it's a reason to avoid anything he is involved in, and that's sad, because the Duellists and the very first Alien movie are two absolute classics.

[@Dabobob]

I saw an interview where he complained about not getting to direct AVP. He just came across as a very bitter man.

[@Imylover]

The man is giving us Gladiator 2 very shortly, a sequel absolutely no one ever asked for & plot wise has no excuse to exist. And how well exactly did Covenant go? Uhm... Keep Ridley AWAY from sequels! He can barely make the first films right. The man has made far more bad films than actual classics that did work.

[@hia5235]

looks absolutely dreadful

[@RoaryUK]

You clearly don't know what you're talking about and need to keep away from movies you haven't seen.

[@sammmmm63]

Cameron’s Aliens MADE the brand into a franchise. Pretty much everything Alien Scott did after the first crashed and burned. Not too mention he killed the movie that could’ve written off 3 from canon just to make covenant.

[@ryanlust1350]

Going back and watching Prometheus. It was all over the place a wreck.

[@katsuyaki7605]

"Prometheus" wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't an "Alien" movie. And apparently Scott forgot or never learned that some things are ruined by trying explain them too much, which in this case means that the xenomorphs didn't need a backstory beyond what "Alien" already gave us. Someone needs to intervene and take the keys to franchise away from him.

[@antewehlen4236]

So tired of this old relic. Just retire, man. He's done unrepairable damage to the Alien franchise. And yeah, I agree, I too am fed-up with that he always gets 100% credit for the first Alien.

[@jarodshepard1046]

David O’Bannon wrote alien with that other guy can’t remember his name. H. R. Gieger did the designs which come on, Ridley wouldn’t have come close to those classic designs. He brought it to picture. That is it. He put someone else’s designs to life with the story they were made for by other ppl

[@Vorylenus]

Aww darn, he didn't make Alien to begin with...

[@thegood9]

While RS certainly didn't "Create" the Alien franchise, without him at that time, I don't think we would've had Giger involved, and THAT was THE reason that movie became what it became. Without RS battling for Giger, the execs did think his art and ideas were obscene. As well, his vision and ideas really were important. I think it's too bad that over time his vision has CHANGED, but, in the beginning, we shouldn't discount what he did. And of course, O'bannon and Giler and the Brandywine folks really rewrote the script, but, Ridley's sense of style back then was INCREDIBLY important for that film. Whether he was brought in at the last moment or not, he was a huge reason that film was as great as it was. I would've LOVED to see what he did with "Aliens"---a film that I have grown to dislike more and more over the years due to its lack of horror----but, oh well... There is NO DOUBT that story for Alien: Covenant was Forced on him by the execs due to the backlash from Prometheus. I quite liked most of the path we were on with Prometheus---save Guy Pearce's HORRIFIC makeup job---but A:C is where it went completely off the rails.

[@markwalker4823]

Thank you for this, for years I've been sick of him and his ego wrongfully taking all the credit for things he did not create!!! In particular because of the actual creatives actually responsible for the story, characters, monsters, art etc. These people are constantly ignored for their brilliant work. I mean he definitely cock blocked alien 3 the fans wanted. He is gate keeper who is wrongfully in a position of power.

[@garydobbs5159]

Aliens is a perfect movie with no flaws not one. It far surpasses Alien and would never take alien over aliens

[@invisibletricking]

Its a shame how small credit is adressed to Dan O'bannon when it comes to ALIEN... And its true that Ridley Scott made a perfect execution of the film, but to say that he created it is just too much...

[@paulwoodford1984]

thought ridley didn’t want to come back for the sequels. he has dementia

[@ricardohernandezvega8588]

Agreed with Mr H. Struggle to find anything else needed to say on that.