You’ve said you wanted to do another “Alien,” and then that you didn’t.
What I was saying probably was that Ridley Scott and I have talked about doing one more where we go back to the original planet and see what these creatures came out of. But, I think that it would be probably unlikely that a major studio would go for it, only because one of the lead characters would be a 55 year-old woman. I don’t think the audience would care at all, because I don’t think we’re as ageist as the business is. So I think that we’d be game. But I don’t think that either of us, we’re both so busy, I’m not going to sit down and write the whole script. And I didn’t rush to see “Alien vs. Predator,” which looked kind of awful to me, like a video game. But I just hope that the Alien won. The Predator’s such a stupid looking creature (laughing).
People probably consider that a separate entity from the “Alien” films.
Well, I hope you’re right.
You’ve also said there were three good films. Which was the bad one?
Really? God, I’m sure I didn’t mean to say that. I meant four.
Young actresses look up to you as an action hero. How do you feel about that?
Well, I think that they should talk to their writers, because the main way to have a good woman action hero is to forget that she’s a woman and not put in these scenes where they, and I haven’t seen some of these pictures, but they always seem to be trying to be too many things. Try to be vulnerable, try to be beautiful. What was good about the “Alien” movies is they weren’t really about Ripley, they were about something else, and Ripley brought her humanness to it. But I think that I was lucky because they just wrote her as if, I mean it originally was written for a guy, and then they just made it into a woman without making these changes that make you sympathetic, you know? I’m very suspicious of all of that.
It just seems to me a good character is a good character. And character is character. Integrity is integrity and courage is courage and it has nothing to do with sex. So I that I still am frustrated by the fact that woman action heroes are still in these ludicrous costumes, and you know, I just don’t know why they have to be action heroes up here instead of action heroes like people. Woman are amazing everyday doing all these amazing things, and they just seem to be so special. And it’s cursed if it’s too special. It should just be, it should be nothing for us now to have women in charge. But then, I thought we’d have a woman president by now.
Do you honestly think that if you and Ridley Scott said that you wanted to make another “Alien,” no studio would give you the money for it?
Well, it would have to be Fox, because they own it. I think Ridley would have to stamp his foot a few times. Would they do it? I don’t know. Maybe they would give us a pretty low budget to do it, but I think we could do it for, I could do it for… The first one we made for $14 million. Of course, that was in the dark ages of 1978. But you know, I don’t think it takes a lot of money. You just have to think. I’m never out here long enough to call Ridley and say, “So what’s happening? What are you thinking about?” We do feel that there’s no rush really. The planet will still be there.
The Aliens don’t win in “Alien vs. Predator.”
You’re kidding? Well, that makes me mad at Fox. The actress who played the Ripley character, I saw her in “Raisin in the Sun” and she was wonderful. She’s a beautiful, beautiful girl.
It was made by a Predator enthusiast though so it’s light on the Alien story and heavy on the Predators.
I am offended. I should take a shower…
You’ve got to make another to right the wrong.
I just have to [stay] unemployed long enough to come up with that idea. It would be fun. I miss those clothes (laughing).
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