Varför gav inte producenterna Ridley Scott chansen att styra 2: a Alien-filmen?

Från alienseries , skyllde producenten på tillgängligheten:

In 1986 Bobbie Wygant asked Aliens producer Gale Anne Hurd if Scott had turned down the opportunity to direct the sequel. “I’m not really sure,” Hurd answered. “I know that he was in post-production on Legend at the time we were in pre-production [on Aliens], so perhaps it was a result of his availability.”

Men det var inte sant:

“They didn’t ask me!” he told The Hollywood Interview in 2008. “To this day I have no idea why. It hurt my feelings, really, because I thought we did quite a good job on the first one.”

Det finns några rykten om att cirkulera men ingenting är definitivt.

Vi vet inte. Gale Anne Hurd sa 1986

I’m not really sure. I know that he was in post-production on Legend at the time we were in pre-production [on Aliens], so perhaps it was a result of his availability

Ridley berättade Hollywood-intervjun 2008

They didn’t ask me! To this day I have no idea why. It hurt my feelings, really, because I thought we did quite a good job on the first one

Det finns rykten om att Scott har olika syn på hela Aliens script och med H.R. Giger de förutsåg att den andra filmen skulle vara en prequel som berättar historien om Space Jockeys och Pyramid.

Så kanske ligger det ett svar. Producenter önskade mer utomjordingar medan Scott ville ha mer lore på bekostnad av att inte ens visa en främling.

Scott's 1982-film Blade Runner var inte så stor en ekonomisk framgång (vid tiden) som Alien , så det är möjligt att tanken på honom styrde var inte lika lätt att sälja. Scotts film 1985 Legend gjorde inte tillbaka sin investering. Fox execs kunde inte ha vetat det när de var tvungna att välja en regissör för Aliens , men det var troligen en känsla att Scott inte var på sitt spel i början av 80-talet.

Scott arbetade på Legend när skriptet för Aliens var nära att slutföra, så Fox-exekver kan ha antagit att han skulle neka erbjudandet och det fanns ingen mening i ber.

Från Wikipedia-sidan på Aliens :

While the producers and development executive Larry Wilson sought a writer for Alien II, Wilson came across James Cameron's screenplay for The Terminator, and passed the script to Giler, feeling Cameron was right for the job. Giler then approached Cameron, who was completing pre-production of The Terminator. A fan of the original Alien, Cameron was interested in crafting a sequel and entered a self-imposed seclusion to brainstorm a concept for Alien II. After four days Cameron produced an initial 45-page treatment, although the Fox management put the film on hiatus, as some disliked the pitch, and they felt that Alien had not generated enough profit to warrant a sequel. A scheduling conflict with actor Arnold Schwarzenegger caused filming of The Terminator to be delayed by nine months (as Schwarzenegger was filming Conan the Destroyer), allowing Cameron additional time to write a script for Aliens. While filming The Terminator, Cameron wrote 90 pages for Aliens, and although the script was not finished, Fox's new president Larry Gordon was impressed and told him that if The Terminator was a success, he would be able to direct Aliens.