Ridley Scott Talks About Giger's Involvement in PROMETHEUS & No Original Xenomorphs
Ridley Scott Talks About Giger's Involvement in PROMETHEUS & No Original Xenomorphs
Ridley Scott spoke with the website Filmophilia while he was filming key scenes in Iceland, and he talks about comparing Noomi Rapace to Sigourney Weaver in his prequel to
Alien.
While Ridley Scott was being interviewed by
Filmophilia he wonders why the other creative minds that worked on the sequels to his 1979 classic
Alien never used the Space Jockeys. Which is a enormous Alien body that is found in first movie as some of the astronauts explore a spaceship. There they come upon the fossilized remains of the Space Jockey, whose body has a gaping wound by it's chest. A wound that implies that an alien at one point gestated and hatched in the Space Jockey, just like what we see with the humans later in the film.
EGE: Will you be using any of Giger’s original design for this film?
RS: We’ve had a pretty good relationship with Giger for many years. I was the first one to go see him in Switzerland, and persuade him to get on a plane. He wouldn’t get on a plane, because he was afraid of flying. And he finally came to Shepperton. He was with me for eleven months. Never went into town, stayed over a pub in Shepperton. Very non-Giger, not exotic. You’d think he’d be in a suite in a hotel. He’s in a pub. He was in a room over a pub, and he was very happy there. And yeah, I brought him in, I showed him what we were doing, showed him the story and he liked it a lot. So he’s doing a little bit of work for me. He’s been doing some murals, big murals, which we’ll see in almost one of the first chambers we encounter when we land where we’re gonna go.
EGE: Final question. I have a feeling what the answer will be, but many want to know. Will we see the original xenomorph in Prometheus?
RS: No. Absolutely not. They squeezed it dry. He (the xenomorph) did very well. (He laughs) He survived, he’s now in Disneyland in Orlando, and no way am I going back there. How did he end up in Disneyland? I saw him in Disneyland, Jesus Christ!
EGE: Do you see Noomi [Rapace] as something of a successor to Sigourney?
RS: Yeah, I mean, they’re quite different women. Sigourney, to start with, is 6’1’’ in stocking feet, and Noomi insists that she is 5’1’’ in stocking feet. (He laughs) I look at a lot of foreign movies, and unfortunately a lot of mainstream movies aren’t terribly good. You know. (He laughs)
The most influential for me are the new ones around the corner, and I look at a lot of foreign films and a lot of Scandinavian films. The Scandinavians have a very good touch for making movies, you guys (Icelanders) as well. I saw Dragon Tattoo a year ago, the first one. And, “Wow, who is that?” and from that I said, “This is the girl that’s going to do the film.” She came to L.A. and I met with her, and discovered that she’s in fact extraordinarily posh, as opposed to punk. So there was a real actress. A real actress, very, very good. So, I don’t know, she will just do great.
