Last week, Alien: Romulus hit theaters as the new entry in the popular sci-fi franchise and has been making waves ever since with its compelling visuals as well as its disgusting horror moments. But producer Ridley Scott, who released the very first Alien film in 1979, has now revealed that without Star Wars, the series might never have existed.
After Star Wars, Ridley Scott dropped everything to make Alien
Alien – The uncanny creature from another world sent Sigourney Weaver on a spaceship in the late 1970s into a fight for survival that still shapes the sci-fi genre decades later. But even the really big ones started small and so director Ridley Scott revealed in a Letterboxd interview when asked about his four favorite films that we Alien actually owes its existence to Star Wars:
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I had just finished shooting The Duellists and won a prize in Cannes. I wanted to shoot the artistically demanding film Tristan and Isolde next. But then I came to the premiere of Star Wars and sat there and was depressed for three months [weil er so gut war].How could I make Tristan and Isolde when this guy [George Lucas] had just done THAT? So I did a U-turn and offered to do Alien six weeks later. It was an accident.
Even though Alien was created by accident, it was a sci-fi accident that has led to six more films in the series to date. In addition, the series Alien: Earth is currently in the planning stages.
Besides Star Wars Episode 4, Ridley Scott’s other favorite films include 2001: A Space Odyssey, his own film Blade Runner and In the Beginning There Was Fire. Scott himself will next be releasing Gladiator 2 this year.
Alien: Romulus in the podcast – Will the high expectations be met?
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Fede Alvarez, director of Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe, is bringing the Xenomorph back to the cinema. With Alien: Romulus, Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic is being revived and our FILMSTARTS colleagues Pascal and Sebastian talk extensively about the film in this podcast… including a big spoiler section.