RS interview: Rolling Stone "Its not a science class - its a movie!"

Interesting interview. Thanks.

When he refers to the classic chest burst dinner table scene as a 'birth', it makes me wonder about the track with the same name in the Prometheus soundtrack.

They said Ridley never directed a sequel.... 'Hannibal' was a sequel to 'Silence Of The Lambs'...

great interview, thanks for sharing! And yes, he does curse like a sailor! Lol Loves his f-bombs!

@NateBlitz - yes, but he's never made a sequel to one of his [i]own[/i] movies.

I would give this thread a better title, will garner more attention. I almost posted it up not realising this was it until reading the interview Anyway... an interesting insight here: [i]What do you think of the other Alien films that followed your original? I don't count the last few movies. I know why they did it: to promote the franchise and, hello, it's about money. This is not denigrating any filmmaker, because it is hard enough, God knows. But I really was a little bit upset by how my baby was being misused. We came up with one of the best all-time monsters. Without that monster, I've got a nice, very well-acted, beautifully art-directed movie, but I ain't got that fucking heart-stopping son of a bitch that defies logic.[/i]

@MVMNT: That right there is the single most important quote that I think anyone should read re: Ridley and what is/isn't "canon" to the Alien series. If Ridley Scott can ignore the last few movies, then the rest of us should feel free to do the same.

It's a huge fundamental

I'm way ahead of you Mr. Scott. AvP, Alien3, and Ressurection have never, and will never be canon to me. What's next? People will start claiming Alien vs. Batman is canon.

Hooray !!! maybe now most of you whom still don't will start to get it !!! This is an EVENT not a film and it is 100%...I personally Guarren-f'n t'ya... that this thing is a Smash Hit Sensation already !!! To me it's just not Rocket Science and IMO one would have to be a bit lost and out of touch with reality to be knocking this thing or him in any way at all right now...bad move, in the end, all these people are going to look pretty dumb if you ask me! Incredible and Fantastic interview thank you for posting this. I think Rolling Stone is one of the Best Mags of all time for it's Film reviews. I have been subscribed to it since I was 12. Ridley was so relaxed he let the commoners like all of us be reminded of exactly why what I wrote above is 100% the truth! "The King" Having "His Rein" right now is "RIDLEY" !!!

Alien vs Superman is another dandy little bit of fiction......

By the 3way he did not say COUPLE he said FEW meaning [b]ALIENS[/b] is NOT canon at all either !!! He's obviously still very very pissed at Both Cameron and Fox for the sequels and The way Fincher was treated or the Xenomorph was depicted in Resurrection didn't seem to matter at all, because he clearly said he doesn't count any of the last 3 films as Canon !!! [b]One=1 A Couple = 2 A Few = 3[/b] and he 100% said...The Last "FEW", and he's mad no one got this up till now which pretty much makes is 100% official now, the ONLY canon at all now...Is :Promertheus & Alien and if you ask me it's about f'n time !!! I personally am overjoyed and have waited 33+ years to hear this exact thing because if you ask me ALIENS was the worst of the 4 films NOT Resurrection. I like the Camera work very very much that Cameron brought to Aliens but I am so glad, I have such a "GLAD HEART" now that none of them count as "CANON". 57 year Hyper Sleep now officially never ever Happened I absolutely Love it !!! This also means he can NOW BRING SIGOURNEY WEAVER BACK !!!

A few generally means 3 (Alien Res, AvP & AvPR). So does that mean theat Alien 3 counts in his eyes? Still vague.

True Dat...but I believe he was never even discussing the 2 AVP films in that quote because he addressed all that right before he said it SLAMMING FOX for what I have said all along, the MONEY GRAB that had nothing to do with the franchise to begin with, made zero sense, and was already discounted... he meant the 4 Franchise films...CLEARLY !!! And there's another thing... which completely supports my thoughts here...He clearly has contempt for all 3 guys Junet, Fincher, Cameron + for Fox...for being so stupid as to not even THINK of addressing the Jockey and for what they did to The Xenomorph which he seems to be clearly saying as well is In this film..but again... the WAY HE wanted it to be !!!!!!

Then none count by that math. He wouldn't have said "last few" if none at all but the original count. He has already thrown Aliens links in Prometheus viral pics (loader) and spelling of Weyland.

i disagree completely !!! read it again !

I am very hopeful Aliens and everything after ALIEN accept Prometheus is TOAST now !!! have you watched Aliens recently, it has not aged well at all, in fact it really is the worst of the 4 films, if we leave out both AVP's !!!

I believe he refers to all 6 movies with the franchise word "Alien(s)" in the title in this reference. The driving factor for Prometheus is the fact that the AvP and Alien sequels were all sooo bad! (Aliens was ok at points)

i read it again and I am wrong and you are right However...I am still overjoyed that at least Resurrection, and it's retarded ending, plus both AVP films, are Officially TOAST !!! I WOULD LOVE FOR HIM TO DO THE SAME WITH ALIEN 3 WHICH I SAY IS THE ALL TIME BEST OF THE 6 FILMS AND ALIENS AND BRING WEAVER AND RIPLEY...BACK !!! WOULD DEARLY LOVE TO SEE THAT !!!

Wow, it still doesn't matter what Ridley says, Fox owns it and paid for and makes the decisions as to what they want. Ridley works for Fox......not the other way around! Ridley does what Fox allows. Without Fox, we wouldn't even have the movie Alien. In fact if it hadn't been for Fox giving him a chance we would have never heard of Ridley, his first feature movie, The Duellists, was a flop at the box office. To his credit, he did see how well scifi was received with Star Wars and was able to capitalize on that genre and thus Alien was a success. So, he doesn't own the rights to the movie or to the ideas in the movie nor does he make that decision of what is canon, Fox decides that! I know I'll get a bunch of crap for this, but before you do, if GM makes a car and some engineer designs the car, engineers and directs it's creation, when it comes to the dealer to be sold, is it the engineers car and named for him or is it called a Chevy or Buick, we all know the answer to that. Also if there is a second generation car or a third or so on, say maybe a Corvette, is it still part of the family and still a Corvette, you bet it is! So why wouldn't other films by the same company that owns ALL the rights to it, that paid all the employees to make it, not have the right to say what is canon? THINK ABOUT IT!