Ridley Scott believes the Alien film series was dead and buried before he made 2012’s Prometheus. The British filmmaker directed the original Alien, released in 1979, which followed the crew of a commercial spaceship as they encountered a deadly extraterrestrial creature. The sci-fi horror became a blockbuster franchise, spawning three sequels and the Alien vs.
Predator crossover films. In a new interview, Scott claimed he brought the franchise back to life after 1997’s Alien Resurrection performed badly at the box office. End of the f***ing story.
So I sat there thinking, I’m going to bring it back. So I sat down with a very good writer; two guys [and] eventually ended up with Damon Lindelof, and we caught fire and wrote Prometheus. Then I thought that shook the cage a bit and I did the next one, Alien Covenant.
So now it’s up and running.” Acting as a prequel to Alien, Prometheus comprised a blockbuster cast including Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Charlize Theron. It followed a team of scientists who travel to a distant planet searching for the origins of humanity, alongside David (Fassbender), an android whose mysterious loyalties become increasingly unsettling. A sequel, Alien: Covenant (2017), saw Fassbender reprise the role.
On the review aggregation site, Prometheus sits behind Aliens, Alien and the 2024 interquel Alien: Romulus, with an overall critics’ score of 73 percent. Alien 2 and 3 were directed by James Cameron and David Fincher, respectively, while Jean-Pierre Jeunet directed the fourth film, Alien Resurrection, starring Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder. New subscribers only. £9.99/mo. after free trial.
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