Nope, Ridley Scott has proven in the past and even now with Alien Covenant that he's only as good as the script he's working with. He has no clue he's close to killing the Alien franchise.
because people likes to complain. and ridley has no choice but to follow, he's afraid the movie will flop. but for me i like the prometeus better. i am so intrigged with the engineers. lots of questions. why would people love those gores and aliens? i am more interested. in deep story. the quest for mankinds origins than this shitty alien combat. just sad
Prometheus, Alien, Blade Runner, The Martian, Gladiator, Thelma & Louise, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven, The Counselor, A Good Year, Alien Covenant, G.I. Black Rain . . . incredible, tireless director.
Prometheus was way too deep and slow paced for many Alien fans. They wanted Ripley shooting shooting Xenomorphs with a flamethrower and shouting crowd pleasing lines like "Get away from her, you bitch!" I wanted a straight continuation of the Prometheus story, not a soft reboot of Alien. Anyone that claims the Prometheus script was bad should submit their own screenplay online so we can see what a great script really looks like. We now live in a world filled with losers and trolls who create and contribute absolutely NOTHING to society, yet they constantly criticize the hard work and creativity of others. Critics especially are the lowest form of untalented scum on the planet as they comment on the failure or success of others to make their own living.
Whine all you want, but I liked the original Prometheus Draft 'ALIEN:Engineers' by Jon Spaihts with the Xeno & it's lifecycle incorporated. I like the ideas of Prometheus, but I fucking hated Damon Lindelof and his horrid rewrite that removed the Xenomorph and it's life cycle, I wanted The Engineers AND The Xenomorph together onscreen, Lindelof is such a shitty hack writer, just malformed Spaihts awesome original.
Well as an Alien fan, I prefer the original Alien movie over Aliens, I prefer the slow burn horror and that's why I didn't hate Prometheus as much as everyone, but you're right people want to the action horror of Aliens even though that's not what made the series great.
I liked all 4 movies (Alien , Aliens, Prometheus, and Covenant), but just not the same. Alien, and games like Alien Isolation are my favorite. Aliens is also really great too, but it's more of a good finale. Introducing a bunch of hardcore weapons kinda kills it...literally. I don't think expanding Aliens outside of something like Aliens: Infestation ever really works. It starts to lose horror unless you introduce newer threats like Praetorians, Queens, Kings, Empresses, Queen Mothers, and the Alien homeworld. It can only go so far... Meanwhile I do like the direction that Prometheus took, and even Alien Covenant (David creating/spreading Xenos, having an evil God complex), but both movies just have really idiotic and unrelatable characters. Alien and basically every other Alien/Sci-fi movie had smarter characters and quarantine procedures. I couldn't even recognise anyone outside of Daniels, the replacement captain, the guy with the cowboy hat, and David/Walter, (and 2 seconds of James Franco, and Shaw's corpse barely if you even count that). I saw a blonde lady, a black lady, and a pile of like 10 bodies. Even in Prometheus I recognized the dumb characters...and even those characters wore helmets on uncharted planets and didn't wander off alone when they knew dangerous Aliens were running about. Plus, Prometheus was more original and really expanded the universe...while Covenant...not so much aside from Neomorphs. Not saying either movie is bad though...but why would they not be wearing helmets or sticking together on uncharted planets when they already did so in Alien and Prometheus (mostly)?
I was pissed when I wrote that, I've calmed down since. I also watched Prometheus 3D again and saw Covenant a second time this weekend. I just wish we could have had a straight up Prometheus sequel instead of the mix tape called Covenant. With that said, Covenant would have been a great THIRD film in the new Ridley Scott Alien saga after he wrapped up the Prometheus storyline with its own full movie. Covenant feels like a compromise, not a vision.
he wasn't depressed because of the phantom menace he was depressed as a director as lucas had just nailed it, which left him thinking what the F**k do i do now...
The interviewer is weird. He shouted "Phantom Menace" when Ridley was saying that he was depressed because of the 1977 film and what would he be able to do...
I agree 100% with Ridley & how he see's the future of the 'Alien'. In the past he's been said to be a difficult director but,just look at what his name is attached to, even 1985's 'Legend'. A broad spectrum director who's just not looking for shock value, but the cause & effect & aftershock value. Brilliant!
You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Prequels are the perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility to their fans. I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by coherence, answers, or delusions of plot. One more thing about the next movie... I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies
They need to ban this guy from having any contact with movie making ever again. He made brilliant stuff back in the day, and he's now destroying all of it hand over fist.
Terrible. Ridley doesn't seem to understand what made the first movie so good. He ruined the bizzarre, unearthly space jockey design by making it a guy in a flight suit in Prometheus and now he's robbed the Xenomorph of any mystique by saying a human robot came up with it while tinkering in his lab. Pathetic.
A bad idea is a bad idea, doesn't matter who came up with it or when. In the movie it looks like a fossilized skeleton and Dallas says as much. Which implies it is not a guy in a suit but rather a bizzarre ancient creature unlike anything on earth. Setting it up as that then revealing it's a bald albino in a flight suit would never be anything but underwhelming.
rodster6 i look at it this way. David only gave birth to a xenomorph (just like humans give birth to other humans) and that xenomorphs already existed.
Dude, cut back on caffeine before these interviews. We shouldn't be watching YOU talk just as much as the people we came here to see talk. You've done this in all the interviews. Quit it! lol
It would be awesome to see the initial explorations that led to the colonization of the planet and members Weyland-Yutani encountering the Deacon & the Queen. I would love to see a few facehuggers making it to a Weyland-Yutani installation or hidden aboard ship or cargo by the end of Scott’s sequel.
Blake Norton people get all worried about AI wiping out humanity so here you go... A part of this plot that makes sense in light of that. As for the technology... It is still the product of one group of engineers. David doesn't get full credit...
Ridley Scott said the Alien franchise should be at War of the Worlds type level... And that's where they are going. Engineers uniting with humanity (not at first) to overcome the bigger threat, Deacon - as shown on the murul from their starship as a warning. Engineer/ Humanity vs AI/Deacon
These Xenomorphs were by far the most terrifying Xenos I've ever seen. They felt much more intelligent and were incredible fighters, they didn't just use their brute strength.
I loved Prometheus, I need to watch Covenant again and will be interested to see where it goes in Awakening.. Clearly the arc revolves around David, which is cool because we typically don't see the arc revolve around the bad guy... I love the back stories on how David engineered the Xeno's.. , similar to Batman Begins, giving the viewer a look into how we got to the future rather than just placing us there.. Keep it interesting, make us think, make us wonder... that's where Prometheus succeeded.. If you want simple shoot em up, go watch Fast n Furious..
How Alien Covenant Movie Should have been and futher Alien movie stories: Fan thoughts Alien Covenant 2017 Movie: 2nd Prequel to Alien- David and Shaw continue their journey to Paradise using the Engineers ship. - they arrive on the Engineers paradise planet in the woods its empty nothing but woods and moutains - They continue searching for awnsers and exploring the planet walking - They walked for hours and they found A crashed yutani Weyland Ship Covenant Ship) - they were exploring the covenant ship (4 crew members were found). It crashed a year ago - 4 crew members explained they crashed a year ago on this planet. and their captain is gone missing. - One of the 4 crewmembers said their captain and 3 other covenant crewmembers went searching for a engineer ship to get off of this planet. - The 4 crewmembers want to join David and shaw to find their lost crewmembers and captain - They continue their search and their was a noice following them. out of nowhere 2 Neomorphs came out and attaked the group - 2 of the 4 covenant members died by the neomorphs. they rest of the group manage to escape. - They continue their search and were walking together in a group of 4 now. They coming closer to the egineers hideout and villages - The entering the city unseen and were hiding for the egineers. they see a crowd engineers walking far away - Shaw wants to go the engineers to ask why they created us and then wanted kill us. David warned Shaw not to do that because the engineers would kill us. Shaw agrees and they continue their search for awnsers themselves. - They discover A massive big mysterious engineers tempele. No egineers were in the tempel - they are entering a very Dark mysterious engineer Gods tempel unnoticed. David shines his flashlight and they see more of the history of the engineers explaining on the walls - they find a mysterious Big room And secret engineer space ship inside of it - David, shaw and the 2 crewmembers exploring the ship and find a spacejockey. - They heard a loud noice. the door shuts down of the tempel. They were stuck - They saw one Giant engineer coming towards them. Not a normal Engineer we know from prometheus - he ask what are you doing here in engineers language. he wants to kill David and Shaw - David cumminicates with engineers and calms down by winning his trust by talking - The engineers explains the sacrifice of the Engineers taking the black goo on Planet Lv-233 beginning of prometheus for the cure of immortal life. - The egineer shows a history hologram of what happen to their planet and why they were experimenting on LV-233 with black goo - 2 Egineers ships were travelling to the xenomorphs home world. one of the 2 engineers ship returned to the engineers planet the other did not - It also revealed that the captain (james Franco) of the covenant ship and went to the xenomorph homeworld with a stolen engineers ship. its not sure he survived - The hologram explained that the egineer homeworld was inffected by a returning engineer ship with no engineers inside from the xenomorph home world that went to the xenomorph homeworld for a mission. - The mission was finding the immortal cure towards the xenomorph black goo infection - their were some immortal cure jars found in the returning egineer ship that the engineer was drinkin in the beginning of prometheus - in The returning engineer ship that came from the xenomorph homeworld xenomorph. there were xenomorph eggs and neo morph black poison plants in it - the mission failed - David and Shaw wanted to help the engineer and his people finding the immortal cure. and want to know id the captain James franco survived on the xenomorph homeworld. - Davind and Shaw were offering their help the egineers finding the cure by traveling to the Xenomorph homeworld. But only If the Egineers will not kill the humans on earth. - The Giant engineer agreed with the offer. an decides to help David, shaw and the 2 crewmembers. Other engineers noticed they were unknown geust on their planet and went on hunting David Shaw, and the 2 crewmembers - the Giant engineer tries to communicate to stop the other egineers. it will not help. - The Giant Engineer, David Shaw, and the 2 crewmembers are trying to escape from the engineers. - then the xenomorphs and Neomorphs showing up. to hunt the engineers and David,shaw and 2 cremembers actions (battle scenes) - many engineers get killed by the aliens and also the 2 crewmembers - the good Engineer is helping them to escape they wen to the egineer space station and took an other engineer ship to the xenomorph homeworld to find the immortal cure Movie ends Alien HOMECOMING 2022 Movie: 3rd Alien prequel to Alien David, Shaw and the good Giant Engineer landing on the Xenomorph home world planet. they exploring the Xenomorph world and find an other stranded engineers ship with the Lost dead ALien Covenant Captain james Franco - they were searching for the black goo cure. they were able to find it. and were fighting the Aliens on the planet aswell. -David gets attackted by an ALien queen. and gets wounded. - they were running back to the engineers ship ready to leave. - They try to escape and get back into the engineers ship. a few xenomorphs enters the engineers ship unseen. - David said to Shaw go home. you have your awnsers now, i stay here. -Shaw agrees and cries. They say goodbye to each other. The good engineer and Shaw enter the engineers ship and were leaving the xenomorph planet - David was left behind on the xenomorph homeplanet he wanted and David dies. Xenomorhp homeplanet exploded and gets destroyed - Shaw noticed later that the good engineer and she were not alone on the engineer ship. Shaw saw the aliens. and gets an Engineers pistol fights and tries to kill the Aliens in a battle on the engineers ship while the good engieer was steering the engineers ship in the space jockey - the Giant Engineer gets a Facehugger on him and gets inplanted with an Xenomorph egg - they were trying travelling back to engineers planet with the cure. - the enigeer notice he is not feeling well while he sits in the Space jockey. The engineers started to feel the pain in his chest and the Alien was ready to get out of the engineers chest. The enigeer could not drive the engineers ship anymore. - The egineers ship go's downwards and was ready to crash on a unknown planet. The engineers Ship Finanally crashes on planet LV-426. - Shaw Dies by the crash Alien Queen comes out of the Giant Engineer Chest and lays eggs you see in the original Alien 1979And of movie Alien 5 2028 Movie: The Alien Deacon that was left alone on planet LV-233 at the end of prometheus has created a new Alien species and is the Deacon Queen. - A Weyland Yutani crew ship lands there. And you know what's going to happen!!!! - All futher unanwserd questions of Prometheus will awnserd in Alien 5
UrboyCrazy excelent man!! this is what i wanted!! i loved Shaw caracter, very strong and interesting. i really liked David, but the one in prometheus whom seemed docil, and helpful with his own personality offcourse, not David in covenant that was like evil crazy mind, that is capable of killing and doing anything for his cause. i mean, its like David in Prometheus and David in Covenant are like diferents robots, i dont know its really strange, is like something is missing in the middle.
Nacho el pibe I dunno man, in Prometheus, David put the black goo in halloways drink. Sounds a bit insane to me. At least the David in covenant is a believable transition of the character over seven years of being isolated and tinkering with Shaw’s body. I bet doing science experiments on someone he loved made him even more conflicted and insane yeah?
My idea for a third alien/prometheus movie is as follows: The engineers are the main characters in the movie and comes to the planet that was in the Prometheus movie. There they find Weyland inside the crashed spaceship. They have a blue elixir which they empty all over him and bring him to life. In the next part they arrive at the planet from alien covenant and find the other robot(Walter) who is david's twin.The engineers use the blue elixir and repairs him. Once awaken the engineers and Weyland get to know all the horrible things that David has done, and weyland says "we have to stop David" . They set course for origae. When they arrive,they scans all the planet,and finds the planet is full of hostile organisms except on a high mountain where they discover that there are humans inside a cave. Inside the cave they meet a herd of children, who tell that when they had lived on the planet for over ten years, they began to be attacked by Xenomorphs and all the adults died or were turned into these creatures. There were also great giants developed by someone the children calls David. The engineers get ready to wipe out all the Xenomorphs that David has created, but the great giants manage to escape with one of the engineers' spaceships. The engineers and Weyland hunts the spaceship and manage to force the spaceship down on the planet lv426.Where it start sending a distress signal. The engineers return to Origae to find David, but discover that he has escaped. In the last part we see David arriving and meeting an unknown alien species on a tropical like planet.And that makes the cliffhanger that ends the third movie.
James Cameron about Blomkamp's Alien 5 script: “He shared it with me, and I think it’s a very strong script, and he can go make it tomorrow.” Read More: James Cameron Weighs In on the ‘Alien 5’ Screenplay | screencrush.com/james-cameron-alien-5-screenplay/?trackback=tsmclip So, who is lying here?:)
umm, neither James Cameron or Ridley Scott own the franchise it up to Fox 20th century to film Blomkamp's Alien 5 or not. Ridley Scott only said Fox 20th century doesn't seem to want film the movie that it. why people act like Ridley Scott canceled Blomkamp's Alien 5 and make a drama out of it?
and because Fox 20th century approved it and allowed him to film it but Ridley Scott has no authority which movie should be filmed or not. Every movie director has to go through Fox 20th century (Suits etc) whatever on they can film a movie based On IP they own or not. even Ridley Scott commented on this on why he didn't work on sequels for Alien was because Fox 20th century didn't approach him on the sequels and hired James Cameron to work on Sequel and other directors.
The funny thing its less interesting and contradicting that *SPOILERS* David made the xeno. The story should've stayed with the Engineers. They were far more interesting than a sentient robot (which was been done many times before).
Apart from the few scenes where the CGI were a failed attempt I cant grasp the very idea why people don't like to watch a different and unique movie that goes beyond what you would have originally taught it would end up looking like. That's a good thing, if you want to rewatch remakes and the way directors steal ideas and old movies to implement new version in order to reach as many pockets as possible feel free to do so, I don't, but to literally hate the new alien movies is to me beyond my understanding of logic and reason. Are they perfect? No. Are they terrible? Absolutely no.
More like "i wanted to make more Prometheus films but then i saw the positive online reaction to Neil Blomcamps Aliens sequel & decided to jump on the fanboy pleasing wagon and make it an Alien film again"...even though he's quoted saying he didn't want to her use the Xeno again that audiences were done with it & the Engineers where the new direction to take the story. Hmmmmmmm Ok sir, if you say so.
That's what I thought, too. I remember him saying that _Prometheus 2_ was not going to feature the Xenomorphs at all. But then not long after word of Blomkamp's _Alien 5_ reaches out, then Ridley backpedals and says that the Xenomorphs *_would_* be in his film, *_and_* retitling it with the _Alien_ brand. Awfully coincidental, if you ask me. It really sounds like he compromised here.
i mean people change minds, you cant be like he's only pleasing fan boys just cuz he changed his mind about how he wants to take the franchise and covanent is still exploring discovery put instead of human evolution we are now learning the xenomorphs origin, and I do agree that it's disappointing cuz I wanted paradise lost but I'm not hating what he is doing rn
Alien wasn't one of the worst movies of 2017. You must not have seen a lot of bad films this year because it is not a bad film. It is more like a 7/10 movie.
Ridley Scott, please finish this Prometheus series before the reboot! Also I don't understand why people shit on Prometheus and Covenant, I am a die-hard Alien fan and I loved both movies.
Ridley Scott says after watching the first Star Wars (1977) he was "depressed for 6 months" because of how brilliant it was... the interviewer talks over him thinking by "first Star Wars" he's talking about the "Phantom Menace", nods & says "I think we all were." Listening skills 101. Oh dear.
I hope Ridley Scott delivers. I would love to see a film where members of Weyland-Yutani also respond to the same signal the Nostromo caught or intercept part of the Narcissus transmission. I would love to see a film with advanced computer systems on the bridge and compartments, but with a seal room and a direct line where we see the messages come in green letters.
i was sooo disapointed where they took this movie, prometheus had such a good story at the beginning, about where we come from and all that, and than they take it to this Alien Scary Movie.
I'm sorry Mr. Scott. I'm not so sure that David creating the xenomorphs is more interesting than the mystery behind their creation. Not all questions need to be answered.
Ridley definitely believes his hype a bit much. It's not far fetched for movie stars and directors to have big egos, but Ridley's is on a whole notha levah. I think Fox shut down Blomkamps alien because Ridley does not want anyone else to have it.
Pretty much but thats a damn shame man. Alien Covenant will help the new audience of this generation feel the tone and ambiance of the 79 original film. Then we would have Blomkamp film Alien 5 film that wouldve hit home to Aliens (Plural) fans and together the nostalgia for new and old would have been stellar but his damn EGO got in the way.
Ofcourse, although I am sure it was mostly out of fear considering the bad reception Prometheus received. If Covenant would compete against A5 and lose revenue...Ridley would be finished.
syntaxed2 How would A5 and Covenant compete????? They wouldnt even be released in the same year if not anything they would help each other suceed by building shared hype like the Marvel or DC franchises.
Mr Ripley, my opinion, you should Do a new movie where Ripley left off in the part where she has Alian D.N.A in her,; the Military Space Station , Blow up and she is just drifting in Space,(Shes half Alian now!), at this point , she lands om Origon.00934, the Planet tbat Convenant was supposedly to going two, they meet up, and Ripley and Danial can stop David. ..
This might sound nutty, but I would like to see an adaptation of the Alien vs predator side scrolling beat em up released by Capcom. They can take out the predator and just keep the Cyborg characters and film it like an all out war film.
He clearly loves the franchise. He can make any movie he wants and at 80 he can't make many more. He is making Alien movies because he enjoys them. I remember reading something about him talking to James Cameron and telling jim how he just loves science fiction so much. And jim asked him why he wasn't making science fiction movies? This was before Prometheus.
When Ridley said that Alien had a B movie plot he wasn't lying. The 1958 film It! The Terror From Beyond Space was a classic B movie that was Ridley's inspiration for Alien, but he'll never admit it.
The Alien Vs Predator films were definitely not cinematic masterpieces, but they were a surprise because that's what the people seemed to want at the time. The first was ok, but they progressively got worse. They were a blasphemy of both Alien and Predator sub-cultures, but they fulfilled a fantasy scenario in the vein of Freddy vs Jason.
With all factors to compliment Ridley Scott as a filmmaker many fans take issue with how he sabotaged Blomkamp's project. All being well Ridley gets to do his final Prequel hen where ever the Alien saga goes is anybody's guess.
We need a movie on the Xenomorph home world! Maybe something Starship trooper Esq. You know we're warring back and forth, maybe they destroy earth and humans are left surviving in a massive fleet and decide "eye for an eye, it's only fair"
"Do you know what Star Wars is about?" asked Ridley "Yes(looks around), it's still good" said one of the many who have no idea wtf is going on with star wars THANKS FOR ALIEN COVENANT RIDLEY!
Pasely isn't a necessarily good thing, suspense is what Ridley Scott is good at, not seeing everything leaves you mind fucked and more terrified (what's in the dark). Just a slither of a Xenomorph emerging from the dark knowing there's a whole lot more of the creature or more of them still in the dark is,......terrifying.
At the end of it all guys we know we are getting the alien universe we allways wanted spoilers or not i'm looking forward to the future of the franchise even more now! Happy days ahead!
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre left a mark on my psyche when I saw it in high school. Very disturbing stuff. I've only seen it all the way through the once. What a nightmare of a film.
They better have a good explanation as to why the Engineers would tell anyone, much less their targets where their BIO WEAPONS BASE IS. It would also be nice if we learned about the kinds of people Engineers are.
Oram: David, are we eating extraterrestrial omelet tonight? So many weird-looking eggs here. David: Of course Oram. Huh ... could you please place your face 20 cm above that egg? Oram: Like this? David: Yes, thank you ... Are you in any way related to Homer Simpson?
This is how I feel about Ridley scott and the alien In "Alien3" she told this life form: "I've known you so long I can't remember a time when you weren't in my life." I'm telling the aliens the same thing. This is a series whose inspiration has come, gone, and been forgotten. I'm aliened out. I feel the same all thanks to Ridley scott I hate this dude
Did everyone else notice at the end the idiot interviewer references the phantom menace and Ridley never mentions anything about any other Star Wars movie except A New Hope! He just hears what he wants to hear and give his chimp opinion without even listening. Scott and Cameron has stated several times that they have a lot of love for all of Lucas' 6 Star Wars movies
I can see what the movie is going to look like if he lets Neil Blomkamp to direct it...robots in a devastated desert, that's always the way he does (district 9, elysium and chappie). It might be even taking place on earth!
Neil Blomkamp is overrated as fuck. I bet it would be straight up action with an army of xenomorph queens against an army of soldiers in mecha suits out in a daylight dessert setting, with some try-hard social commentary. Sure, Ridley has gone senile, but Blomkamp won't save the franchise either.
Stanley Park Neil is an ideas man... His movies sound good on paper but don't quite live up to expectation. He set the bar extremely high with District 9 which is pure Gold but everything else is ugh or meh so far. Let Sir Ridley have his baby lol the Alien franchise is his to command alone
same here, since this movie essentially made the ALIEN not even an alien but a Weyland Yutani productline gone rogue. The story isn't even about humanity facing cosmic horror anymore, it's now just another run-of-the-mill Artificial Intelligence threatening humanity bullshit scenario. What was Scott thinking? He wasn't. He was drinking.
i dont think people realize how big this could all really get..... there was that promo clip that was like a commercial for getting your own "walter".... which obviously david and walter are not individuals.... more like an operating system... meaning LOTS.... there could be simultaneous missions we never considered....
This movie was definitely what we didn't want it's what we never needed and it's like he broke it to the point where there is no fixing it unless down the road he's like "JUST kidding!! I was fuckin wit u, here's the real alien origins story"
I wonder if the Engineers had blueprints to tweak the black goo to create the Facehugger/Xenomorph formula. This was then cracked by David and used to make the Xenomorph. I hope this is true and not that full credit goes to David. This would kill the notion that there's a Xenomorph planet some where and that the Xenomorph's never existed before 2104 which also means the Predator doesn't truly exist in this universe.
Too bad we'll never see Blomkamp's Alien movie, I believe he's a very talented director, and you can see it even more in his new short movies on youtube. He made movies of 20 minutes with a more intense story and action of alien covenant.
Believe me and trust me he'd never make it any better - why, because the guy is too wacko in his own right. E.g. what is "Chappie" more than very average mix of "A.I.", "Mad Max" and "RoboCop"?
He said David made "him", aka the specific Alien in Covenant, not the species itself. My guess is David worked backwards with the black goo, which the engineers produced using Xeno DNA
Can't believe he's like 80 now, and he is still churning out all these epic movies. Guy is a real inspiration.
Crichjo32 he looks 50
Crichjo32 he's a legend.
Ikr. Dude's a f*cking trooper, even now at 80. "Nothing's over while I'm still breathing."
legend? bell-end more like. thanks for ruining alien you ego maniac. didley squat can fuck off.
Nope, Ridley Scott has proven in the past and even now with Alien Covenant that he's only as good as the script he's working with. He has no clue he's close to killing the Alien franchise.
I can't believe they didn't bring us Prometheus 2 because of fucking social media
It will be delivered but we have to wait again xD the next movie is in between Prometheus and this one I think
kukac Alien: Awakening appears to be a Prometheus sequel. Let's hope it's better!
TheShreester Are you sure? I think Ridley said that he wants to keep working with the Covenant storyline
kukac Scott often contradicts himself so I can't be sure. We'll have to wait and see...
because people likes to complain. and ridley has no choice but to follow, he's afraid the movie will flop. but for me i like the prometeus better. i am so intrigged with the engineers. lots of questions. why would people love those gores and aliens? i am more interested. in deep story. the quest for mankinds origins than this shitty alien combat. just sad
Ridley looks incredible. Gunna be 80 this year and he looks a decade younger.
Yeah, money does often have this effect on one's health!
Prometheus, Alien, Blade Runner, The Martian, Gladiator, Thelma & Louise, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven, The Counselor, A Good Year, Alien Covenant, G.I. Black Rain . . . incredible, tireless director.
Prometheus was way too deep and slow paced for many Alien fans. They wanted Ripley shooting shooting Xenomorphs with a flamethrower and shouting crowd pleasing lines like "Get away from her, you bitch!" I wanted a straight continuation of the Prometheus story, not a soft reboot of Alien. Anyone that claims the Prometheus script was bad should submit their own screenplay online so we can see what a great script really looks like. We now live in a world filled with losers and trolls who create and contribute absolutely NOTHING to society, yet they constantly criticize the hard work and creativity of others. Critics especially are the lowest form of untalented scum on the planet as they comment on the failure or success of others to make their own living.
Whine all you want, but I liked the original Prometheus Draft 'ALIEN:Engineers' by Jon Spaihts with the Xeno & it's lifecycle incorporated. I like the ideas of Prometheus, but I fucking hated Damon Lindelof and his horrid rewrite that removed the Xenomorph and it's life cycle, I wanted The Engineers AND The Xenomorph together onscreen, Lindelof is such a shitty hack writer, just malformed Spaihts awesome original.
what? no that movie was just ass.
Well as an Alien fan, I prefer the original Alien movie over Aliens, I prefer the slow burn horror and that's why I didn't hate Prometheus as much as everyone, but you're right people want to the action horror of Aliens even though that's not what made the series great.
I liked all 4 movies (Alien , Aliens, Prometheus, and Covenant), but just not the same. Alien, and games like Alien Isolation are my favorite. Aliens is also really great too, but it's more of a good finale. Introducing a bunch of hardcore weapons kinda kills it...literally. I don't think expanding Aliens outside of something like Aliens: Infestation ever really works. It starts to lose horror unless you introduce newer threats like Praetorians, Queens, Kings, Empresses, Queen Mothers, and the Alien homeworld. It can only go so far...
Meanwhile I do like the direction that Prometheus took, and even Alien Covenant (David creating/spreading Xenos, having an evil God complex), but both movies just have really idiotic and unrelatable characters. Alien and basically every other Alien/Sci-fi movie had smarter characters and quarantine procedures. I couldn't even recognise anyone outside of Daniels, the replacement captain, the guy with the cowboy hat, and David/Walter, (and 2 seconds of James Franco, and Shaw's corpse barely if you even count that). I saw a blonde lady, a black lady, and a pile of like 10 bodies. Even in Prometheus I recognized the dumb characters...and even those characters wore helmets on uncharted planets and didn't wander off alone when they knew dangerous Aliens were running about. Plus, Prometheus was more original and really expanded the universe...while Covenant...not so much aside from Neomorphs. Not saying either movie is bad though...but why would they not be wearing helmets or sticking together on uncharted planets when they already did so in Alien and Prometheus (mostly)?
I was pissed when I wrote that, I've calmed down since. I also watched Prometheus 3D again and saw Covenant a second time this weekend. I just wish we could have had a straight up Prometheus sequel instead of the mix tape called Covenant. With that said, Covenant would have been a great THIRD film in the new Ridley Scott Alien saga after he wrapped up the Prometheus storyline with its own full movie. Covenant feels like a compromise, not a vision.
he wasn't depressed because of the phantom menace he was depressed as a director as lucas had just nailed it, which left him thinking what the F**k do i do now...
The interviewer is weird.
He shouted "Phantom Menace" when Ridley was saying that he was depressed because of the 1977 film and what would he be able to do...
Jo$h
I wonder what the hell he was talking about. The Phantom Menace?
And Ridley was in 77 at the moment. Lol
@@wolfgangbuck841 Glad I'm not the only one who noticed.
I agree 100% with Ridley & how he see's the future of the 'Alien'. In the past he's been said to be a difficult director but,just look at what his name is attached to, even 1985's 'Legend'. A broad spectrum director who's just not looking for shock value, but the cause & effect & aftershock value. Brilliant!
I personally can't wait for the next film. I enjoyed Covenant a lot.
1:43 Did Ridley just fart...? lol
Yep hahahahahaah
Wouldn't you?
"OOOO"
yes, ooh! He was drunk of wine, ussually alcoholic people sounds like that
The interviewer has nice hair
Without Giger... better say Alien would be a B-Class movie ...
And what would it be without Lovecraft? Giger was just doing Lovecraft. Tho doing it well.
You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Prequels are the perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility to their fans. I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by coherence, answers, or delusions of plot. One more thing about the next movie... I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies
or continuity. it's not a space horror but a AI threat now. How original.
Brilliant
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Nice interview - Scott very relaxed
They need to ban this guy from having any contact with movie making ever again. He made brilliant stuff back in the day, and he's now destroying all of it hand over fist.
"They dont know it yet but thats what we're doing FOX" *gives camera a thumbs up*
God I love Ridley Scott lool
Terrible. Ridley doesn't seem to understand what made the first movie so good. He ruined the bizzarre, unearthly space jockey design by making it a guy in a flight suit in Prometheus and now he's robbed the Xenomorph of any mystique by saying a human robot came up with it while tinkering in his lab. Pathetic.
rodster6 I hope you are fimilar with the art concepts to H.R Giger's Xenomorph
A bad idea is a bad idea, doesn't matter who came up with it or when. In the movie it looks like a fossilized skeleton and Dallas says as much. Which implies it is not a guy in a suit but rather a bizzarre ancient creature unlike anything on earth. Setting it up as that then revealing it's a bald albino in a flight suit would never be anything but underwhelming.
rodster6 i look at it this way. David only gave birth to a xenomorph (just like humans give birth to other humans) and that xenomorphs already existed.
Unfortunately I have to agree with you on that, while I liked some of the ides of Prometheus, it still failed to live up to my expectations.
So...spoiler alert at 3.30?
David created the xenomorph
Akhail Nkoro thanthayomdo myre
i feel your pain
That happens in the trailer, bro!
You're a real one!
2:14 "He's special" .... you damn right he is mr. Scott!
Alien going War of the Worlds is what I was expecting when I saw the original trailer for Alien 3. The future for the series looks...terrifying.
Dude, cut back on caffeine before these interviews. We shouldn't be watching YOU talk just as much as the people we came here to see talk. You've done this in all the interviews. Quit it! lol
This interview was a complete rubbish!
And, if the interviewer LOVES Alien Covenant, that only means that his quality standards are quite LOW!
Sir Ridley Scott doesn't give a FUGGHHHHH about critics
Yeah, that's why he changed Alien Covenant after reading the critique on Prometheus. He literally says that 3,5 minutes in the video ffs!
That's arguably more of a response to fans than to critics.
Wtf!!!!!! How could Ridley make a huge spoiler like that? Is he crazy??
I wanna go back in time 😭😭😭
it's not a spoiler, it was made pretty clear in Prometheus.
Yes, wasn't Prometheus indication enough for you that he's gone senile?
John Sullivan
No, it wasn't. You are just trying to sound smart as an afterthought.
Biomechanoid one thing is to come up with a theory, another one is to be 100% certain of how events are going to evolve.
It would be awesome to see the initial explorations that led to the colonization of the planet and members Weyland-Yutani encountering the Deacon & the Queen. I would love to see a few facehuggers making it to a Weyland-Yutani installation or hidden aboard ship or cargo by the end of Scott’s sequel.
David creating the aliens is the worst thing to happen to the lore.
Blake Norton people get all worried about AI wiping out humanity so here you go... A part of this plot that makes sense in light of that. As for the technology... It is still the product of one group of engineers. David doesn't get full credit...
He didn' t create the black goo .. So what' s up with that shit .. I mean this shit >>The black goo
Ridley Scott said the Alien franchise should be at War of the Worlds type level... And that's where they are going. Engineers uniting with humanity (not at first) to overcome the bigger threat, Deacon - as shown on the murul from their starship as a warning.
Engineer/ Humanity vs AI/Deacon
These Xenomorphs were by far the most terrifying Xenos I've ever seen. They felt much more intelligent and were incredible fighters, they didn't just use their brute strength.
1:44 2:18 Haha Ridley Scott is really a lovable and funny man, especially for a director, blesses to him!
Check out 3:30 you won't regret it
I loved Prometheus, I need to watch Covenant again and will be interested to see where it goes in Awakening.. Clearly the arc revolves around David, which is cool because we typically don't see the arc revolve around the bad guy... I love the back stories on how David engineered the Xeno's.. , similar to Batman Begins, giving the viewer a look into how we got to the future rather than just placing us there.. Keep it interesting, make us think, make us wonder... that's where Prometheus succeeded.. If you want simple shoot em up, go watch Fast n Furious..
How Alien Covenant Movie Should have been and futher Alien movie stories: Fan thoughts
Alien Covenant 2017 Movie: 2nd Prequel to Alien- David and Shaw continue their journey to Paradise using the Engineers ship.
- they arrive on the Engineers paradise planet in the woods its empty nothing but woods and moutains
- They continue searching for awnsers and exploring the planet walking
- They walked for hours and they found A crashed yutani Weyland Ship Covenant Ship)
- they were exploring the covenant ship (4 crew members were found). It crashed a year ago
- 4 crew members explained they crashed a year ago on this planet. and their captain is gone missing.
- One of the 4 crewmembers said their captain and 3 other covenant crewmembers went searching for a engineer ship to get off of this planet.
- The 4 crewmembers want to join David and shaw to find their lost crewmembers and captain
- They continue their search and their was a noice following them. out of nowhere 2 Neomorphs came out and attaked the group
- 2 of the 4 covenant members died by the neomorphs. they rest of the group manage to escape.
- They continue their search and were walking together in a group of 4 now. They coming closer to the egineers hideout and villages
- The entering the city unseen and were hiding for the egineers. they see a crowd engineers walking far away
- Shaw wants to go the engineers to ask why they created us and then wanted kill us. David warned Shaw not
to do that because the engineers would kill us. Shaw agrees and they continue their search for awnsers themselves.
- They discover A massive big mysterious engineers tempele. No egineers were in the tempel
- they are entering a very Dark mysterious engineer Gods tempel unnoticed. David shines his flashlight and they see more
of the history of the engineers explaining on the walls
- they find a mysterious Big room And secret engineer space ship inside of it
- David, shaw and the 2 crewmembers exploring the ship and find a spacejockey.
- They heard a loud noice. the door shuts down of the tempel. They were stuck
- They saw one Giant engineer coming towards them. Not a normal Engineer we know from prometheus
- he ask what are you doing here in engineers language. he wants to kill David and Shaw
- David cumminicates with engineers and calms down by winning his trust by talking
- The engineers explains the sacrifice of the Engineers taking the black goo on Planet Lv-233 beginning of prometheus for the cure of immortal life.
- The egineer shows a history hologram of what happen to their planet and why they were experimenting on LV-233 with black goo
- 2 Egineers ships were travelling to the xenomorphs home world. one of the 2 engineers ship returned to the engineers planet the other did not
- It also revealed that the captain (james Franco) of the covenant ship and went to the xenomorph homeworld with a stolen engineers ship. its not sure he survived
- The hologram explained that the egineer homeworld was inffected by a returning engineer ship with no engineers inside from the xenomorph home world that went to the xenomorph homeworld for a mission.
- The mission was finding the immortal cure towards the xenomorph black goo infection
- their were some immortal cure jars found in the returning egineer ship that the engineer was drinkin in the beginning of prometheus
- in The returning engineer ship that came from the xenomorph homeworld xenomorph. there were xenomorph eggs and neo morph black poison plants in it
- the mission failed
- David and Shaw wanted to help the engineer and his people finding the immortal cure. and want to know id the captain James franco survived on the xenomorph homeworld.
- Davind and Shaw were offering their help the egineers finding the cure by traveling to the Xenomorph homeworld. But only If the Egineers will not kill the humans on earth.
- The Giant engineer agreed with the offer. an decides to help David, shaw and the 2 crewmembers.
Other engineers noticed they were unknown geust on their planet and went on hunting David Shaw, and the 2 crewmembers
- the Giant engineer tries to communicate to stop the other egineers. it will not help.
- The Giant Engineer, David Shaw, and the 2 crewmembers are trying to escape from the engineers.
- then the xenomorphs and Neomorphs showing up. to hunt the engineers and David,shaw and 2 cremembers actions (battle scenes)
- many engineers get killed by the aliens and also the 2 crewmembers
- the good Engineer is helping them to escape they wen to the egineer space station and
took an other engineer ship to the xenomorph homeworld to find the immortal cure
Movie ends
Alien HOMECOMING 2022 Movie: 3rd Alien prequel to Alien
David, Shaw and the good Giant Engineer landing on the Xenomorph home world planet.
they exploring the Xenomorph world and find an other stranded engineers ship with the Lost dead ALien Covenant Captain james Franco
- they were searching for the black goo cure. they were able to find it. and were fighting the Aliens on the planet aswell.
-David gets attackted by an ALien queen. and gets wounded.
- they were running back to the engineers ship ready to leave.
- They try to escape and get back into the engineers ship. a few xenomorphs enters the engineers ship unseen.
- David said to Shaw go home. you have your awnsers now, i stay here.
-Shaw agrees and cries. They say goodbye to each other. The good engineer and Shaw enter the engineers ship and were leaving the xenomorph planet
- David was left behind on the xenomorph homeplanet he wanted and David dies.
Xenomorhp homeplanet exploded and gets destroyed
- Shaw noticed later that the good engineer and she were not alone on the engineer ship. Shaw saw the aliens. and gets an
Engineers pistol fights and tries to kill the Aliens in a battle on the engineers ship while the good engieer was steering
the engineers ship in the space jockey
- the Giant Engineer gets a Facehugger on him and gets inplanted with an Xenomorph egg
- they were trying travelling back to engineers planet with the cure.
- the enigeer notice he is not feeling well while he sits in the Space jockey.
The engineers started to feel the pain in his chest and the Alien was ready to get out of the engineers chest. The enigeer could not drive the
engineers ship anymore.
- The egineers ship go's downwards and was ready to crash on a unknown planet.
The engineers Ship Finanally crashes on planet LV-426. - Shaw Dies by the crash
Alien Queen comes out of the Giant Engineer Chest and lays eggs you see in the original Alien 1979And of movie
Alien 5 2028 Movie:
The Alien Deacon that was left alone on planet LV-233 at the end of prometheus has created a new Alien species and is the Deacon Queen.
- A Weyland Yutani crew ship lands there. And you know what's going to happen!!!!
- All futher unanwserd questions of Prometheus will awnserd in Alien 5
I want the 13 secs of my life that I needed to skip this back!
UrboyCrazy
A million times better than what ridley gave us
UrboyCrazy excelent man!! this is what i wanted!! i loved Shaw caracter, very strong and interesting. i really liked David, but the one in prometheus whom seemed docil, and helpful with his own personality offcourse, not David in covenant that was like evil crazy mind, that is capable of killing and doing anything for his cause. i mean, its like David in Prometheus and David in Covenant are like diferents robots, i dont know its really strange, is like something is missing in the middle.
Nacho el pibe
I dunno man, in Prometheus, David put the black goo in halloways drink. Sounds a bit insane to me. At least the David in covenant is a believable transition of the character over seven years of being isolated and tinkering with Shaw’s body. I bet doing science experiments on someone he loved made him even more conflicted and insane yeah?
Awesome
we need more the thing movies!!!!!!
My idea for a third alien/prometheus movie is as follows:
The engineers are the main characters in the movie and comes to the planet that was in the Prometheus movie.
There they find Weyland inside the crashed spaceship. They have a blue elixir which they empty all over him and bring him to life.
In the next part they arrive at the planet from alien covenant and find the other robot(Walter) who is david's twin.The engineers use the blue elixir and repairs him.
Once awaken the engineers and Weyland get to know all the horrible things that David has done, and weyland says "we have to stop David" .
They set course for origae. When they arrive,they scans all the planet,and finds the planet is full of hostile organisms except
on a high mountain where they discover that there are humans inside a cave.
Inside the cave they meet a herd of children, who tell that when they had lived on the planet for over ten years,
they began to be attacked by Xenomorphs and all the adults died or were turned into these creatures.
There were also great giants developed by someone the children calls David.
The engineers get ready to wipe out all the Xenomorphs that David has created, but the great giants manage to escape with one of the engineers' spaceships.
The engineers and Weyland hunts the spaceship and manage to force the spaceship down on the planet lv426.Where it start sending a distress signal.
The engineers return to Origae to find David, but discover that he has escaped.
In the last part we see David arriving and meeting an unknown alien species
on a tropical like planet.And that makes the cliffhanger that ends the third movie.
The alien was not done, Ridley, the alien was just used wrongly in Alien 3 and 4. Studying the Alien would be good if done properly.
James Cameron about Blomkamp's Alien 5 script: “He shared it with me, and I think it’s a very strong script, and he can go make it tomorrow.”
Read More: James Cameron Weighs In on the ‘Alien 5’ Screenplay | screencrush.com/james-cameron-alien-5-screenplay/?trackback=tsmclip
So, who is lying here?:)
umm, neither James Cameron or Ridley Scott own the franchise it up to Fox 20th century to film Blomkamp's Alien 5 or not.
Ridley Scott only said Fox 20th century doesn't seem to want film the movie that it. why people act like Ridley Scott canceled Blomkamp's Alien 5 and make a drama out of it?
You can't be that naive that Ridley has no word on it since he re-started the franchise with Prometheus...
and because Fox 20th century approved it and allowed him to film it but Ridley Scott has no authority which movie should be filmed or not. Every movie director has to go through Fox 20th century (Suits etc) whatever on they can film a movie based On IP they own or not. even Ridley Scott commented on this on why he didn't work on sequels for Alien was because Fox 20th century didn't approach him on the sequels and hired James Cameron to work on Sequel and other directors.
There were talks about making sequels with Ridley and Cameron in the 2000's.
Lol Cameron also said Terminator Genisys was great. Yeah no.
The funny thing its less interesting and contradicting that *SPOILERS* David made the xeno. The story should've stayed with the Engineers. They were far more interesting than a sentient robot (which was been done many times before).
Spoiler warning would've been nice...
It literally says "Spoiler Alert" in the title
Alex Headley Sure asf didn't last week.
One of the greatest directors of all time. I loved alien covenant!
Apart from the few scenes where the CGI were a failed attempt I cant grasp the very idea why people don't like to watch a different and unique movie that goes beyond what you would have originally taught it would end up looking like. That's a good thing, if you want to rewatch remakes and the way directors steal ideas and old movies to implement new version in order to reach as many pockets as possible feel free to do so, I don't, but to literally hate the new alien movies is to me beyond my understanding of logic and reason. Are they perfect? No. Are they terrible? Absolutely no.
More like "i wanted to make more Prometheus films but then i saw the positive online reaction to Neil Blomcamps Aliens sequel & decided to jump on the fanboy pleasing wagon and make it an Alien film again"...even though he's quoted saying he didn't want to her use the Xeno again that audiences were done with it & the Engineers where the new direction to take the story. Hmmmmmmm Ok sir, if you say so.
That's what I thought, too. I remember him saying that _Prometheus 2_ was not going to feature the Xenomorphs at all. But then not long after word of Blomkamp's _Alien 5_ reaches out, then Ridley backpedals and says that the Xenomorphs *_would_* be in his film, *_and_* retitling it with the _Alien_ brand. Awfully coincidental, if you ask me. It really sounds like he compromised here.
i mean people change minds, you cant be like he's only pleasing fan boys just cuz he changed his mind about how he wants to take the franchise and covanent is still exploring discovery put instead of human evolution we are now learning the xenomorphs origin, and I do agree that it's disappointing cuz I wanted paradise lost but I'm not hating what he is doing rn
Neil ideas were garbage. They sounded like it was going to be like Transformers in terms of quality.
Alien wasn't one of the worst movies of 2017. You must not have seen a lot of bad films this year because it is not a bad film. It is more like a 7/10 movie.
Blomkamp would annihilate the franchise, if I was Ridley I'd put a lid on him too. This franchise is Ridley's and should stay as such.
Ridley Scott, please finish this Prometheus series before the reboot! Also I don't understand why people shit on Prometheus and Covenant, I am a die-hard Alien fan and I loved both movies.
Ridley Scott says after watching the first Star Wars (1977) he was "depressed for 6 months" because of how brilliant it was... the interviewer talks over him thinking by "first Star Wars" he's talking about the "Phantom Menace", nods & says "I think we all were."
Listening skills 101. Oh dear.
I thought this was supposed to be an interview, not Ridley Scott getting a 7 minute verbal hand job. Way to be objective.
I could listen to Ridley all day
I hope Ridley Scott delivers. I would love to see a film where members of Weyland-Yutani also respond to the same signal the Nostromo caught or intercept part of the Narcissus transmission. I would love to see a film with advanced computer systems on the bridge and compartments, but with a seal room and a direct line where we see the messages come in green letters.
AH MAN, it's so hard not spoiling this movie for myself, damnnnnnn you time!! Tick faster!!
This new Alien movie has everything... except Aliens
i loved it. i love that we have more questions. real excited for more films and for sir ridley to continue his work
i was sooo disapointed where they took this movie, prometheus had such a good story at the beginning, about where we come from and all that, and than they take it to this Alien Scary Movie.
Ridley Scott "watch it or fuck off" 😂😂😂
I'm sorry Mr. Scott. I'm not so sure that David creating the xenomorphs is more interesting than the mystery behind their creation. Not all questions need to be answered.
when Ridley says he's gonna make more Alien movies..
*squeels*
Ridley definitely believes his hype a bit much. It's not far fetched for movie stars and directors to have big egos, but Ridley's is on a whole notha levah. I think Fox shut down Blomkamps alien because Ridley does not want anyone else to have it.
Pretty much but thats a damn shame man. Alien Covenant will help the new audience of this generation feel the tone and ambiance of the 79 original film. Then we would have Blomkamp film Alien 5 film that wouldve hit home to Aliens (Plural) fans and together the nostalgia for new and old would have been stellar but his damn EGO got in the way.
Ofcourse, although I am sure it was mostly out of fear considering the bad reception Prometheus received.
If Covenant would compete against A5 and lose revenue...Ridley would be finished.
syntaxed2 How would A5 and Covenant compete????? They wouldnt even be released in the same year if not anything they would help each other suceed by building shared hype like the Marvel or DC franchises.
Big problem with prometheus was the dam shitty script.
SpaceFX How was the script shitty? Please explain. I bet you havent even read it to make such a claim...
What a conincidence it is, that every time I watch such an interview, the interviewer is very fond of the film. How does it work?
Interviewer: "I thought it was brilliant therefore congratulations"
If he's "chatting about the future of the sci-fi franchise" is not really "secret plans" anymore, is it?
Mr Ripley, my opinion, you should
Do a new movie where Ripley left off in the part where she has Alian D.N.A in her,; the Military Space Station , Blow up and she is just drifting in Space,(Shes half Alian now!), at this point , she lands om Origon.00934, the Planet tbat Convenant was supposedly to going two, they meet up, and Ripley and Danial can stop David.
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This might sound nutty, but I would like to see an adaptation of the Alien vs predator side scrolling beat em up released by Capcom. They can take out the predator and just keep the Cyborg characters and film it like an all out war film.
People talking about the spoiler: didn't we already know that from Prometheus?
yeah lol exactly
During all this interview I was surprised I didn't hear someone say: It's like poetry, it rhymes...
He clearly loves the franchise. He can make any movie he wants and at 80 he can't make many more. He is making Alien movies because he enjoys them. I remember reading something about him talking to James Cameron and telling jim how he just loves science fiction so much. And jim asked him why he wasn't making science fiction movies? This was before Prometheus.
When Ridley said that Alien had a B movie plot he wasn't lying. The 1958 film It! The Terror From Beyond Space was a classic B movie that was Ridley's inspiration for Alien, but he'll never admit it.
The Alien Vs Predator films were definitely not cinematic masterpieces, but they were a surprise because that's what the people seemed to want at the time. The first was ok, but they progressively got worse. They were a blasphemy of both Alien and Predator sub-cultures, but they fulfilled a fantasy scenario in the vein of Freddy vs Jason.
Can't believe Ridley is near 80 years old!!! Nice director!
So you guys want to see secret plans, but you don't want spoilers?
With all factors to compliment Ridley Scott as a filmmaker many fans take issue with how he sabotaged Blomkamp's project. All being well Ridley gets to do his final Prequel hen where ever the Alien saga goes is anybody's guess.
"..but it should always be based around this threat (the Alien)"Ugh. The internet got Ridley. I would much rather have seen Prometheus 2.
We need a movie on the Xenomorph home world! Maybe something Starship trooper Esq. You know we're warring back and forth, maybe they destroy earth and humans are left surviving in a massive fleet and decide "eye for an eye, it's only fair"
thats cool that ridley listens to criticism and changes accordingly
"Do you know what Star Wars is about?"
asked Ridley
"Yes(looks around), it's still good"
said one of the many who have no idea wtf is going on with star wars
THANKS FOR ALIEN COVENANT RIDLEY!
Pasely isn't a necessarily good thing, suspense is what Ridley Scott is good at, not seeing everything leaves you mind fucked and more terrified (what's in the dark).
Just a slither of a Xenomorph emerging from the dark knowing there's a whole lot more of the creature or more of them still in the dark is,......terrifying.
i wanted Prometheus 2, instead i got this covenant shit.
The Alien came from a white robot named David. My childhood is ruined.
At the end of it all guys we know we are getting the alien universe we allways wanted spoilers or not i'm looking forward to the future of the franchise even more now! Happy days ahead!
He should have asked him why Jar Jar Binks wasn't featured more prominently in the film.
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre left a mark on my psyche when I saw it in high school. Very disturbing stuff. I've only seen it all the way through the once. What a nightmare of a film.
They better have a good explanation as to why the Engineers would tell anyone, much less their targets where their BIO WEAPONS BASE IS.
It would also be nice if we learned about the kinds of people Engineers are.
Oram: David, are we eating extraterrestrial omelet tonight? So many weird-looking eggs here.
David: Of course Oram. Huh ... could you please place your face 20 cm above that egg?
Oram: Like this?
David: Yes, thank you ... Are you in any way related to Homer Simpson?
This is how I feel about Ridley scott and the alien In "Alien3" she told this life form: "I've known you so long I can't remember a time when you weren't in my life." I'm telling the aliens the same thing. This is a series whose inspiration has come, gone, and been forgotten. I'm aliened out. I feel the same all thanks to Ridley scott I hate this dude
Like what Sir Ridley Scott said in the interview. David arc makes sense on paper, sadly wasn't executed well on Covenant. Sadly was disappointed.
Interesting watching this after Romulus. I hope he still intends to expand the universe
If David created the xenomorph than why was a xenomorph on the wall of the engineer ship?
Schlett Istvan cuz he is old and making this shit up as he goes along.
This is why: czcams.com/video/Up6p_dV7eEI/video.html
i still hope for an alien and Metroid spinoff
Please don't let Aliens go the way of Star Wars.
Did everyone else notice at the end the idiot interviewer references the phantom menace and Ridley never mentions anything about any other Star Wars movie except A New Hope! He just hears what he wants to hear and give his chimp opinion without even listening. Scott and Cameron has stated several times that they have a lot of love for all of Lucas' 6 Star Wars movies
This franchise is going to die when this man does.
Noone will make alien films like ridley.
Covenant was a fantastic film, thank you Sir Ridley for your brilliant contribution to modern science fiction, my favorite franchise!!!
He needs to let Neil Blomkamp to direct at least one movie
I can see what the movie is going to look like if he lets Neil Blomkamp to direct it...robots in a devastated desert, that's always the way he does (district 9, elysium and chappie). It might be even taking place on earth!
NOOOOOooooo!
AVP DID ENOUGH DAMAGE TO THE FRANCHISE THANK YOU!
Stanley Park or James Cameron 😀
Neil Blomkamp is overrated as fuck. I bet it would be straight up action with an army of xenomorph queens against an army of soldiers in mecha suits out in a daylight dessert setting, with some try-hard social commentary.
Sure, Ridley has gone senile, but Blomkamp won't save the franchise either.
Stanley Park Neil is an ideas man... His movies sound good on paper but don't quite live up to expectation. He set the bar extremely high with District 9 which is pure Gold but everything else is ugh or meh so far. Let Sir Ridley have his baby lol the Alien franchise is his to command alone
So Alien: Romulus is set to release 8/2024. Hope to god Scott has TONS of influence over it lol
I just pretend this movie never existed and is not Alien canon of the Alien franchise
same here, since this movie essentially made the ALIEN not even an alien but a Weyland Yutani productline gone rogue. The story isn't even about humanity facing cosmic horror anymore, it's now just another run-of-the-mill Artificial Intelligence threatening humanity bullshit scenario. What was Scott thinking? He wasn't. He was drinking.
That's for changing the fucking title to no spoilers
i dont think people realize how big this could all really get..... there was that promo clip that was like a commercial for getting your own "walter".... which obviously david and walter are not individuals.... more like an operating system... meaning LOTS.... there could be simultaneous missions we never considered....
This movie was definitely what we didn't want it's what we never needed and it's like he broke it to the point where there is no fixing it unless down the road he's like "JUST kidding!! I was fuckin wit u, here's the real alien origins story"
I wonder if the Engineers had blueprints to tweak the black goo to create the Facehugger/Xenomorph formula. This was then cracked by David and used to make the Xenomorph. I hope this is true and not that full credit goes to David. This would kill the notion that there's a Xenomorph planet some where and that the Xenomorph's never existed before 2104 which also means the Predator doesn't truly exist in this universe.
I really appreciate your work, love all your movies especially Prometheus
Too bad we'll never see Blomkamp's Alien movie, I believe he's a very talented director, and you can see it even more in his new short movies on youtube. He made movies of 20 minutes with a more intense story and action of alien covenant.
Believe me and trust me he'd never make it any better - why, because the guy is too wacko in his own right. E.g. what is "Chappie" more than very average mix of "A.I.", "Mad Max" and "RoboCop"?
He does not look anywhere near 80.
Bravo.
Err......spoilers!!!!
Well, the title does say "Secret Plans" lol
You mean where he said David made the xenomorphs?
He said David made "him", aka the specific Alien in Covenant, not the species itself. My guess is David worked backwards with the black goo, which the engineers produced using Xeno DNA
Yeah STeve whats up with that? I had to rewind cause I said no he didnt say David made him, dang man. errr!
Um, but It's not a spoiler though, this was already a given at the end of Prometheus. so it's hardly a surprise. David always has a hidden agenda.
Time will tell if this new Alien movie will stand up. Rewatched Alien 3 and it's not that bad. Not the best but not terrible.
I really wish they had gone with the whole engineers story line . . . Have some patience fans, payoffs are usually better with patience . . . :(
Don't lie interviewer, just tell him the movie was basically an alien remake with no answers.