Fede Alvarez Says Ridley Scott Known as His New ‘Alien’ Film “F***ing Nice”

Fede Alvarez, who’s directing the brand new sequel to the Alien franchise, admitted that he was “terrified” to listen to filmmaker Ridley Scott‘s suggestions on the upcoming film.

Throughout a latest dialogue with Guillermo del Toro on the DGA Latino Summit 2023, the Don’t Breathe director revealed that his “director’s reduce” of the movie was completed, which meant he “needed to undergo the extremely tense technique of clearly sending it to Ridley,” who directed the unique 1979 Alien and is a producer on the sequel.

“I needed him to see it earlier than anyone,” Alvarez defined. “And everybody gave me the heads-up [that] Ridley is actually powerful. He’s actually powerful, notably if in case you have one thing to do along with his motion pictures.”

He continued, “He was actually powerful on Blade Runner [2049], which I believed was a masterpiece, and he had points with it as a result of it’s actually laborious for him as a result of it’s his work. … I requested him concerning the new Prime Gun and he’s like, ‘Meh.’ I’m like, ‘What are you speaking about?’ And he was like, ‘My brother’s was unique and that is like, eh.’ He actually revered it, however you could possibly see how powerful he was. So I used to be like, ‘There’s no manner I win this one.’”

However the Evil Useless director knew he needed to face his fears, irrespective of how afraid he was to satisfy with Scott in individual to listen to his suggestions.

“Even when he didn’t ask for it, I used to be gonna go there and sit at a desk and take a look at him and get it,” Alvarez stated. “Even when he was gonna say, ‘You destroyed my legacy,’ I needed to be in entrance of him and see him within the eye. I didn’t need to get an electronic mail the place it says, ‘Ridley says….’”

However Scott’s response undoubtedly took Alvarez without warning. “He walks into the room and he did say, ‘Fede, what can I say? It’s fucking nice,’” the filmmaker recalled. “For me, it was like … my household is aware of it was among the best moments of my life to have a grasp like him, [who] I admired a lot, to even watch a film I made, however notably one thing like this … and discuss to me [for] an hour about what he favored about it. … The most effective compliments he stated was, ‘The dialogue is nice. Are you the author?’ Sure!”

Although many particulars surrounding the movie are being saved beneath wraps, the ninth installment of the franchise is about to concentrate on a gaggle of younger individuals on a distant colony as they struggle for his or her lives with the titular alien, a creature often known as a Xenomorph.

The twentieth Century Studios movie stars Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu.

The Alien sequel is slated to launch on Aug. 16, 2024.

The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Scott’s rep, who declined to remark.