From slashfilm [excerpt],“It’s set in 2085, about 30 years before Sigourney [Weaver's character Ellen Ripley]. It’s fundamentally about going out to find out ‘Who the hell was that Space Jockey?’ The guy who was sitting in the chair in the alien vehicle — there was a giant fellow sitting in a seat on what looked to be either a piece of technology or an astronomer’s chair. … [The film] is about the discussion of terraforming — taking planets and planetoids and balls of earth and trying to terraform, seed them with the possibilities of future life.
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Here's two quotes that boil my blood:
"It’s fundamentally about going out to find out ‘Who the hell was that Space Jockey?’"
"In a 2002 interview, Scott wanted to return 'to where the alien creatures were first found and explain how they were created.'"
While I don't think prequels are intrinsically bad, this approach to them really honks me off (as I've griped before).
It's like that "still trying to get pizza from your toaster?" commercial in which someone actually tries to put a pizza into a regular toaster. Nobody approaches the Alien franchise and demands to know where it all came from! The space jockey is probably so much better as a mystery. Yatta yatta yatta. I'm too caffeinated right now to let this get me down. I'm going to go riff on Archie some more.
Every time Ridley Scott opens his mouth to talk about Alien or Blade Runner, he says something dumb.
The only time this isn't true is when the movie is actually playing in front of him and he's doing a DVD commentary, in which case his memory is jogged and his profound understanding of the mechanics of making a movie is tapped.
But beyond that, he doesn't really have a deep understanding of either movie. He's not a writer. (J. J. Abrams, Stanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarantino are writers; it's a huge difference between directors in my opinion.) Unfortunately every time he says something about Alien or Blade Runner (like the idiocy of Deckard being a Replicant) everybody treats him like the ultimate expert on the topic, which is silly. The only "expert" on the Alien franchise is Dan O'Bannon, who died last year.
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