After directing the first Alien film in 1979 and then returning for 2012’s Prometheus and 2017’s Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott has now passed the baton to Fede Álvarez for Alien: Romulus — while still giving a few notes.
At the Romulus premiere in Los Angeles on Monday, Scott — who is a producer on the project — told The Hollywood Reporter that when Álvarez showed him the movie for the first time, “I was hugely relieved that it was potentially a huge film and I just said, ‘You don’t have to take a note, but I’ll tell you what I think.’”
The filmmaker explained that he wrote down notes instead of saying them aloud to Álvarez, “then he reads them privately, kicks the wall, punches the door, and then comes back out and said, ‘They were good notes.’” Scott also made a suggestion to cut down the film, noting, “Directors tend to make it too long; it was long so you don’t want to lose your dynamic. The dynamics in this kind of movie are everything, and he had so much going on; he didn’t need so much.”