Although Ridley Scott's return to the Alien franchise was originally heralded as the franchises saving grace, after two polarizing movies the veteran British director has only succeeded in dividing the fanbase. 2012's Prometheus retconning of the once mystical "Space Jockey" into an Apollonian epitome of the body perfect, and 2017's Alien: Covenant turning of Michael Fassbender's troubled synthetic David into a hybridization of Doctors' Frankenstein and Moreau, and the creator of the franchises titular antagonist have proven to be too much subversion of what many fans had hoped and expected from these prequels. One chief complaint that such fans have against Scott has been the directors attitudes to the Alien itself in which he has repeatedly stated that he believes "the beast is cooked", a position he maintained when critics slammed the portrayal of the Xenomorph in Alien: Covenant, a movie he admits he and studio 20th Century Fox made in reaction to criticisms that Prometheus underperformed critically because it lacked the franchises true star; the Alien.
With a week to go until Alien Day, April 26th (4/26, inspired by LV-426 - does that make February 23rd Prometheus Day) Scott has once again promoted that he intends to finish his series of Alien prequels in a new interview with Yahoo movies to promote the new AMC serial The Terror (pictured above) based on the novel by Dan Simmons. What makes this interview stand out somewhat is that towards its end he mentions 1979's Alien. Misremembering, he states that he "came across a guy" when referring to the Aliens aesthetic creator the late H. R. Giger - every alien fan knows that it was the original scriptwriter, the late Dan O'Bannon who discovered Giger's work in 1973 when he was working on the ill-fated Alejandro Jodorowsky adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel, Dune. More interesting than Scotts faux pas is his closing statement of the interview, in which he is talking about the Alien creature.
"What I'm trying to say is that there are rarities, there are those [ideas] that occur once in the while, not that often, but when they do grab them and hang on to them."
Confusingly this seems to suggest that Scott has done a complete one-eighty degree turn on his stance towards the Xenomorph. This statement does seem to suggest that Scott has been coerced by studio executives demanding he deliver a better-executed portrayal of the titular creature than he did in Alien: Covenant, but what remains to be seen is whether or not Scott will continue with this newfound realization or revert back to his original stance. Scott's position will ultimately decide who will be the star of the third Alien prequel, the Xenomorph we all love or Fassbender's megalomaniac android David.
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