“It's the end of a franchise”: Ridley Scott is tired of this famous science fiction saga

Good foot good eye, Ridley Scott, 87 at the clock, has no desire to let go and continues to chain projects. The latest would be a western, moreover, a genre that he has never explored until then.

At the same time, he always keeps an attentive eye on becoming sometimes deduced from a franchise which he stammered with his seminal masterpiece, Alien, the eighth passenger. In a recent interview with Screenhe explains “that he did enough” With the saga of SF, letting go in passing that the fourth part, Alien: Resurrection had seriously weighed the future of the franchise.

“It's the end of a franchise”

“I think I had the impression that there was a drop in diet after 4. I think mine was damn good, that Jim's was good, and I must say that the others were not very good. And I said to myself:” Fucking, it is the end of a franchise which should be as important as Star Trek or Star Wars, which in my opinion are phenomenal “.

Put hardly remotely removing those he had made on the sidelines of the promotion of his film Gladiator II, in 2024. In an interview with Deadlinehe evoked his film Prometheus, very criticized by the fans, while tackling the throat the Alien 3 by David Fincher and the 4th opus signed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. “With the big screenwriter Damon Lindelofwe sat down and we tried to rebuild the Alien era. But we fell asleep along the way “ he said.

Adding: “My advisers were not vigilant too, without a doubt. I am partly responsible because I was busy on other films; this is how the project was left out when it should not have been. When something is rejected, it is better to do it 100 %,” added Ridley Scott, making amends “.

“I think I am almost finished with the evolution of the alien”

After Prometheus, Scott will realize Alien: Covenant, and then had in his boxes still a sequel, which was baptized Alien: Awakening, which remained at the bottom of the drawer. “I believe I was almost finished with the evolution of the Alien himself, but what I was trying to do was to transcend all this to go to another story, centered on artificial intelligence.

The world that artificial intelligence would create if it was at the head of a new planet. We already have a well -developed plan for the next film “, said Ridley Scott, on the sidelines of the promotion of Blade Runner 2049 on which he was producer.

Producer on Alien: Romulus (he found “excellent”), Scott is also credited as a producer on the coming series Alien: Earth, which will be broadcast next August. If he thinks he went around the owner of the franchise, no question either for him to take too far with a saga that he always protects a little jealously. Neill Blomkamp knows something about it …