Ridley Scott Interview 01.05.06

[deezelboy]

Somebody let Ridley out off his box on Illuminati Day:

Off the subject a bit... would you have any interest in doing a fifth Alien film?

Ridley Scott: I think the franchise has maybe now been disengaged with Alien vs. Predator.

Did you have any idea when you did that first one that it would span three other films and still be with us today?

Ridley Scott: No, but I knew... you get an idea when you're doing something that it's going to be fairly important. Don't forget those were the days when sequels were rare. I'm just trying to think what other sequels there were. There was the James Bond movies and not many. I think sequels have become a recent idea of franchising.

Made with the idea to make this one movie and then make a few others...

Ridley Scott: Oh yeah, absolutely. Now they're giant box office. Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.

http://www.movieweb.com/news/95/12395.php

The franchise has maybe been disengaged...

[Sebastian]

/Agrees..   

[ACID]

It is the end of days 

[BlackWatch]

This shouldn't be a real surprise to anyone who's kept up with Scott's and Cameron's comments on the future of the franchise. They both said for years if an Alien vs. Predator film was made they'd never get back involved with a fifth sequel. He's really just regurgitating what he's said plenty of times in past interviews.

[ACID]

Yeah I know, I just wanted to reach 450 posts LMAO

[Hudson]

I don't want Scott to go back anywhere near Alien and get his career tarnished.

[ACID]

Yeah I agree with you. Hey even better! I want any director who's talented to stay away from the AVP franchise so it sucks and sends it offically south, that's a great idea

[BlackWatch]

Yeah I agree with you. Hey even better! I want any director who's talented to stay away from the AVP franchise so it sucks and sends it offically south, that's a great idea

I thought that's what was happening anyway...

[Bartleby]

I don't want Scott to go back anywhere near Alien and get his career tarnished.

But Scott is the only director who can save this franchise. ?I love his idea to go to the alien's home planet, and he is the only director who has the vision to make it work. ?

[BlackWatch]

Actually, and this is just my opinion, I think Cameron would have just as good a chance at bringing the franchise back-on-track as Scott. But I would take either one. For that to happen, though, the Alien vs. Predator movies would have to stop lest they fuck things up further. And as long as they are making Fox truckloads of money, I don't see that happening either.

[Uncanny Antman]

Face it...we're now resigned to years of mediocrity in the form of ever-decreasingly-good AvP sequels until the 'franchise' is right back where it was with A:R and P2.

It'll be a long time before Fox bothers to think about another non Vs flick again. 

[Bartleby]

Actually, and this is just my opinion, I think Cameron would have just as good a chance at bringing the franchise back-on-track as Scott. But I would take either one. For that to happen, though, the Alien vs. Predator movies would have to stop lest they fuck things up further. And as long as they are making Fox truckloads of money, I don't see that happening either.

Cameron won't be available until 2009 because he's working on Avatar and Battle Angel.

[ACID]

I have a feeling things are going to get real interesting in the future, in a very bad way. I think we should really be prepared for it! Because I don't see some people sticking around if you know what I mean. Call me negative, but I have a talent of sensing bad things coming before they arrive. It's a curse I have

[SM]

Did you sense me just giving you a bad karma point? 

[ACID]

Dude bad karma is everywhere, it has a name, it has a face, it walks, it talks it's called Sapien LMAO