Fede Alvarez's Alien movie gets the highest praise possible from Ridley Scott: "It's f***ing great"

Oct. 18, 2023

“Everyone gave me the heads up that Ridley is really tough”

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Fede Alvarez’s upcoming Alien movie has received the highest praise possible: Ridley Scott thinks it’s “fucking great”.

“He wanted to watch it on his own. Because it was Alien. It was very important to him. He didn’t want to have anybody in the room. That makes me even more terrified while I’m waiting. And then he walks into the room and he did say, ‘Fede, what can I say? It’s fucking great’. My family knows it was one of the best moments of my life to have a master like him, which I admired so much, to even watch a movie I made, but particularly something like this, and talk to me for an hour about what he liked about it.”

Scott, who directed the original 1979 movie (andappears on the cover of the latest issue of Total Film), is producing the new installment in the franchise, which is officially titled Alien: Romulus. The cast of the movie includes Cailee Spaeny, who will also star in Sofia Coppola’s upcoming biopicPriscilla, Rye Lane’s David Jonsson, and Shadow and Bone’s Archie Renaux.

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