Then we went to $8.6 by the time we finished.”īesides Skerritt, the cast includes Sigourney Weaver in her featured role debut as Ripley, the warrant officer who goes mano-a-monster with the alien Veronica Cartwright, as the emotional navigator Lambert the iconic Harry Dean Stanton as the engineering tech Brett John Hurt as executive officer Kane Ian Holm as Ash, the science officer who actually is an android and Yaphet Kotto as chief engineer Parker. So, that’s the power of being able to visualize. with the boards, and they suddenly saw they had a different kind of movie. It took Scott three weeks to storyboard the film. I said, ‘Well, what I will do first is go back, look at this carefully to see if there’s anything I need to adjust.”’ Once I was there, they said ‘Look, the budget is hovering just under $4 million.’ I did ‘The Duelists” for $850,000, so the figures sounded right to me. “They sent me a script and I read it,” said Scott. Someone, he said, recommended the producers see “The Duelists.” Scott acknowledged he didn’t know how they connected a 19th century period drama to a sci-fi thriller about an alien creature running amok and killing off the members of a spaceship. “You don’t offer Bob ‘Alien,” he explained. “I was the fourth choice,” noted Scott, adding that Robert Altman had been offered the movie before him. Scott wasn’t the first choice of the producers, which also include David Giler and Walter Hill, to make magic out of O’Bannon’s script - Ronald Shusett co-wrote the original story with O’Bannon.
I said, ‘I’m sold.’ All I needed to know was Ridley was going to do this and he would make magic out of it.” Then I got a call from one of the producers of ‘Alien,’ Gordon Carroll, and he said “They’ve kicked up the budget and a guy named Ridley Scott is doing it. I thought I wanted to remember who this this guy is.
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