Ridley Scott talks future about the future of ‘Alien'

Ridley Scott has just sat down to discuss the Alien franchise and what he thought would be its future.

According to Variety, while he believes the 1979 and 1986 versions featuring James Cameron were ‘good’, he does not hold the same feelings towards all that followed.

For those unversed, the franchise has run from 1979 all the way to 2024, with a gap of seven years from the last which was in 2017.

“I think I felt it was deadened after 4” he started by admitting. “I think mine was pretty damn good, and I think Jim's was good, and I have to say the rest were not very good. And I thought, F***, that's the end of a franchise which should be as important as bloody Star Trek or Star Wars.”

But then while admiring Jean Giraud Moebius who he calls “the best in the world” a moment happened where he “suddenly offered Alien out of the blue.”

“And because designer is in my blood and DNA. I just knew what to do with it. And I was the fifth f******* choice. Why you offered Robert Altman Alien, God only knows. Altman said, 'Are you kidding? I'm not going to do this,' and I went, 'Are you kidding? I have to do this,' because it borders and verges on heavy metal. So that's where I went, and then it died.”

For those unversed with the franchise and its main premise, its first ever installment followed the story of a derelict spaceship that hunted down the Nostromo, a ship returning to Earth with its crew in stasis.

Upon hearing a beacon, they awaken only to find that it was a warning rather than an SOS by some extraterrestrial creature.

From that, point on chaos ensues as one of the members enters this spaceship, only to have spider-like creatures attach themselves to his helmet. At that point he is carried back to their ship and the plot moves on from there.