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

[b]wrong[/b] and you did not READ the thread I guess because Scott now CLEARLY has the rights you just claimed FOX still had.

also ALIENS is now owned, all of it...by SEGA GENESIS !!!

also Scott...could buy and sell Fox 50 times over because they own NOTHING REALLY, mathematically every single film they have ever made has operated with a NET LOSS in the end, including all 6 so called alien films.

No, Sega only has licensing rights from Fox to design games....a very big difference!

Colonial Marines is created in partnership with SEGA, a company that owns the rights of the Aliens franchise.

wrong again they own the rights to all the material in that film.

Sega own the Aliens IP in their portfolio for games

Actually, Alien Drone is right. Sega owns the license to produce [b]video games[/b] based on the Alien and Predator properties. [URL]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sega-will-hatch-alien-games-145956[/URL] Thus they are now the only game company that can legally produce [i]games[/i] featuring the characters/settings/etc. from the series. More here: [URL]http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/12054/Sega_Acquires_Alien_License.php[/URL]

Sega bought the electronic rights December 11 2006, not the film rights! Sega does not own the rights to the films, nor does Ridley.

ya know what to be fair I researched this extensively and YOU are right again, the rights they have are to make 2 Games HOWEVER, They are using many of the people who worked on Both Alien and ALEINS to make them. I also believe in my holiest of holies that The World has nothing but Disdain for FOX and their owning those rights because they have CLEARLY done a MASSIVE disservice to this franchise with Their complete Money Grubbing B.S. In the end though it is NOT fox that tells Ridley what he can and cannot use, they ADORE him, and listen to HIM first, not the other way around !!! They dictate a Budget and that's pretty much the end of it, the creative control is ALL the directors and writers that are hired to produce the story outline the Director they hire submits. They have the rights to produce the films, and in almost all cases...not what goes In them!!!

We should thank our lucky stars that the rights [b]don't[/b] belong to a video game company [i]*cough*SuperMarioBros.*cough*[/i]

Go to any court in the land to decide who owns the movie or any movie and they will say, whoever paid for it. That's just the way it is. If Fox loved Ridley so much and thought his was the only vision, why all the other movies? Is Fox in it to make money, you bet they are, is Ridley making movies to make money, you bet he is! They all are.

I really doubt that Ridley Scott has the money that Rupert Murdoch has. He owns 20th Century Fox.

that's wrong, Ridley is NOT doing this for the money, he does it CLEARLY because he wants to and loves the creative process, that much is 100% undebateable by me. Owning a movie and controlling what goes in it are two entirely completely different things!!! They asked Ridley to come back over and over and he could not in each case because of prior commitents and they were then ones who decided to exploit the franchise for more money... In the past almost 35 Years or more of this THERE IS BUT ONE AND ONLY ONE DOCUMENTED CASE IN WHICH THE SUITS AT FOX STEPPED IN AND CHANGED ANY PART OF ANY CREATIVE OR ANY PART OF ANY CREATIVE PROCESS IN ANY OF THE 6 FILMS AND IT WAS THE STORYBOARD FOR ACT 3 OF ALIEN IN WHICH PREPARED BOARDS WHICH SHOWED THE ALIEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTING RIPLEY THEN BITING OFF HER HEAD, AND THEN SITTING DOWN IN HER COMMAND CHAIR AND COMMUNICATING WITH EARTH IN HER VOICE. IT IS THE ONE AND ONLY TIME SUITS AT FOX EVER WERE INVOLVED IN ANY CREATIVE OR CREATIVE PROCESS OF ANY OF THE 4 FILMS OTHERS THAN BUDGETARY CONCERNS!!! THE COURTS HAVE HAD 100% OF NO SAY FOR ALL 35 OF THESE YEARS!!! LMFAO !!! AND AGAIN SCOTT COULD BUY FOX 50 TIMES OVER AND CREATE AND PAY FOR ANY ALIEN FILM HE WANTED HIMSELF AND FOX COULD NEVER DO A BLOODY THING TO STOP HIM IMO AND WOULDN'T EVEN BOTHER TRYING!!! THE ONLY REASON THEY HAVE SCOTT WORKING ON THIS NOW IS THEY BEGGED HIM TO COME BACK...LITERALLY, BEGGED HIM, AND THE PRICE FOR THAT WITH ANY CREATIVE DIRECTOR SUCH AS SCOTT IS 100% FULL ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE CONTROL WHICH i BELIEVE FOX HAS STATED SEVERAL TIMES NOW THAT THEY HAVE ALREADY GIVEN HIM FOR THIS PROJECT!!!

can•on noun 1. an ecclesiastical rule or law enacted by a council or other competent authority and, in the Roman Catholic Church, approved by the pope. 2. the body of ecclesiastical law. 3. the body of rules, principles, or standards accepted as axiomatic and universally binding in a field of study or art: the neoclassical canon. 4. a fundamental principle or general rule: the canons of good behavior. 5. a standard; criterion: the canons of taste. I think that the word “Canon” has been bastardized to the point that it no longer has any solid meaning …at least in regard to films. It’s a word based in Greek, that basically means “measuring rod.” In times past, it was used to label what was canonical/authentic bible scripture…an what was not. Qustion here is: Who is the pope of the Alien Universe…Ridley Scott or Fox? For myself, I have always gone with Ridley…in the past. And I see Fox as sort of heretics…if you will, vying for a different, inferior, and cheapened version of the ALIEN Universe...or at least settling for it. However, I think that Scott at least respects Cameron’s ALIENS (just as I do), otherwise he would not have referenced it in the new film; LV223, WeylanD, etc… ~N

Sir Ridley is a workaholic? Honestly, that term, "workaholic", is such a degrading word. It shouldn't have to be degrading but people make it to be disrespectful towards people who could actually, God help us all, [i]love[/i] to work. I personally think it's better to be a workaholic than to be an unproductive twat who only believes in partying and destroying his body with substance-abuse and what-not.....no offense to anyone here who likes to party; if you do, that's all well and good. My point is that sometimes it's the workaholic element that insures that your own creation is at its most perfect state. It's just that nobody can understand what it's like; they all just go "Oh you work too hard on your little project; get outside and enjoy life and stuff," and stuff. As for how much he's getting paid.....that I don't know. Everybody knows that actors get paid astronomical amounts, but I think directors get jack-shit compared to them, and as such they only have their reputations and creative potential to bask in.

@ CRAZYDAVE55811 i AGREE GREAT POST !!!

@[b]Spartacus[/b] Thanks. ^-^ Granted, I say this because I myself am a creator....or rather, creative; I've always been called "creative" throughout my life, now that I think about it. I've got my own little projects, which I hope to one day publish in the future....but my fear is that my own work could be "legally stolen", as I call it, not to mention that my work would have to be whored in order to keep up with the competition. I think my works would be better as videogames, but for now it's all concept art and other stuff. Though recently I've been on hiatus with them, and have been deriving creativity with MikuMikuDance videos, which is my first attempt at 3D, polygonal stuff.... ...but enough about me. Anyway, I read the rest of the interview....I would've loved to see this interview on YouTube, just to hear Sir Ridley sling "fuck" every couple of seconds, or hear how he goes "Motherfucker," if his movie fails. Oh, and Blade Runner is his most personal work, eh? News to me.

@Alien Drone Rupert Murdoch...LMFAO...Dude..do you have ANY idea what would happen to Murdoch financially speaking in ANY BATTLE against Ridley Scott? Do you have any idea?, despite how rich he is, how very little credibility what so ever He has left and the massive amount of HATRED AND BIAS there exists for this man in almost every single country on this earth?

@CrazyDave55811 I hope you find a way cause I want to see the games you produce now!