Why ‘Alien’ Director Ridley Scott Hated ‘Alien vs. Predator’

Ridley Scott’s Alien remains one of the most acclaimed horror movies of all time. The spinoff Alien vs. Predator , however, is not as beloved.

Scott revealed he had issues with Alien vs. Predator and the Alien franchise as a whole. Ridley Scott said the ‘Alien’ films were ‘dead in the water’ Scott forever changed science fiction and horror when he released the original Alien in 1979.

Since then, he put out popular science fiction movies like Blade Runner and The Martian and films in other genres like Thelma & Louise and Gladiator . During a 2019 interview with The Hollywood Reporter , Scott discussed the evolution of the Alien franchise. “You get to the point when you say, ‘OK, it’s dead in the water,'” he said.

“I think Alien vs. Predator was a daft idea. And I’m not sure it did very well or not, I don’t know.

But it somehow brought down the beast.” Why Ridley Scott felt the original film worked Scott returned to the Alien prequel Prometheus on his own terms. “And I said to them, ‘Listen, you can resurrect this, but we have to go back to scratch and go to a prequel, if you like,'” he said.

“So we go to Prometheus , which was not bad actually. But you know, there’s no alien in it, except the baby at the end that showed, itself, the possibility. I mean, it had the silhouette of an alien, right?” Scott explained the reason why the creatures from the original Alien were so frightening.

“The alien [origin concept] is uniquely attached to Mo.