20 Saturday, April 29, 2017 Paris ‘Hideous beyond belief’ Alien” creator Ridley Scott says The “neomorph” aliens in the new film he’s convinced that there are aliens are based on the goblin shark “which has out“ there -- and one day they could come a jaw which hinges in two ways. It’s scary, for us. hideous beyond belief actually,” Scott said. The veteran director said on Thursday he The 79-year-old British-born director believed in higher beings as he prepared to -- who was also the brains behind “Blade release the sixth episode of the sci-fi horror Runner” -- said he never tired of scaring series, “Alien: Covenant”, next month. people out of their skins. “I believe in superior beings. I think it is “When I did the first ‘Alien’ I had to get a certainly likely. An expert I was talking to sense of responsibility because the reaction at NASA said to me, ‘Have you ever looked to the kitchen (“chestbuster”) scene with in the sky at night? You mean to tell me we John Hurt was beyond anything I expected are it?’ That’s ridiculous. -- and it was not good,” he said. “The experts have now put a number “But the film was very successful because on it having assessed what is out there. people are perverse.” They say that there are between 100 and He said he could not believe the terror 200 entities that could be having a similar he had created when he went to see people evolution to us right now. watching the film. “So when you see a big thing in the sky, “Everybody was half underneath the seat run for it,” he joked. watching by the time you get to the kitchen “Because they are a lot smarter than scene. There was a woman underneath the we are, and if you are stupid enough to seat with her husband holding her. I said challenge them you will be taken out in this is not healthy.” three seconds.” Scott, however, claimed that he was PROMETHEUS ALIEN 3 “Alien: Covenant”, the second of the unshockable. Alien: Covenant, the sixth movie in the hugely prequel films, is set in 2104 on board “Nothing scares me. I have a 9mm successful Alien canon, sees original director a spaceship carrying 2,000 cryogenically (pistol),” he said. Ridley Scott, take the series back to its horror film roots. Here’s what’s happened so far in frozen colonists to a distant planet when “If there is a problem I tend to close the almost 40-year-old billion dollar franchise they chance upon an uncharted paradise. down into calm. When you walk in in the Kane (John Hurt) But their voyage soon turns into a morning on a film and 600 people turn and becoming a little too familiar with alien gory nightmare that makes “Alien’”s all look at you, that is scary,” he said. eggs in Alien original “chestbuster” scene seem tame in “Alien: Covenant” has a religious subtext, (1979) comparison. the director insisted. He said he was “agnostic”, but this did not stop him making a film about Moses, “Exodus: Gods and Kings”, Release: 2012 Release: 1992 in 2014. Dir: Ridley Scott Dir: David Fincher “Either religion is the greatest Rotten Tomatoes: 72% Rotten Tomatoes: 44% trick played on mankind. Or it is Global box office: $403.4m Global box office: $159.8m not, and that poses some great Set 30 years before events Escape pod carrying questions, and this film is a great of original Alien movie, survivors of Sulaco is scientist Elizabeth Shaw jettisoned onto ore refinery/ context for those,” he said. (Noomi Rapace) discovers ALIEN (original movie) ALIENS prison planet Fiorina The film sees Irish actor Michael remains of archaeological “Fury” 161. Ripley and star map on Earth. It points damaged synthetic Bishop Fassbender return to his role as to same region of space (Lance Henriksen) are only the cerebral android David which first seen in Alien. She joins survivors. Unknown to them, crew of “Prometheus”, alien facehuggers are also he played in the last prequel including synthetic human aboard and before long, “Prometheus” in 2012. David (Michael new alien-dog hybrid is Fassbender), and journeys killing inmates and guards But this time with a twist. Scott to planet LV-223, in search uses him to pose questions of origins of humanity. ALIEN: RESURRECTION about the nature of Instead, she finds remains of ancient race who were humans. developing biological “There is an weapons that could cause extinction of human race artist in there ALIEN: COVENANT NEW somewhere,” Release: 1979 Release: 1986 Fassbender Dir: Ridley Scott Dir: James Cameron said in Rotten Tomatoes: 97% Rotten Tomatoes: 98% an earlier Global box office: $104.9m Global box office: $131.1m interview. U.S. commercial starship After 57 years in hyper- “There’s “Nostromo” is diverted to sleep, sole survivor of desolate planetoid after Nostromo, Ripley, awakens definitely receiving distress signal aboard Earth space station. an ego in from derelict alien space- Her story of alien monster there... So craft. While exploring alien that killed her crew is Release: 1997 ship, crewman Kane disbelieved, until contact is Dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet again these (John Hurt) finds chamber lost with planetoid (from Rotten Tomatoes: 54% are very full of eggs, one of which original movie, known as releases alien creature LV-426 ) now home to Global box office: $161.4m human that attaches to his face, terraforming human colony. Set 200 years after events things. 3 Release: May 12, 2017 (UK) rendering him unconscious. Ripley, against her better in Alien , experimental Parasite soon dies and judgement, accompanies military clone Ripley 8 (her “We Dir: Ridley Scott Kane awakens, seemingly squad of Colonial Marines, DNA mixed with that of all want Bound for remote planet on fine. Soon afterwards, alien including Corporal Dwayne alien) and band of far side of galaxy, crew of organism bursts from his Hicks (Michael Biehn), mercenaries, including to leave colony ship “Covenant” chest and grows rapidly into aboard spaceship “Sulaco” synthetic human Annalee something find what they believe to be terrifying 2.5m-tall creature to investigate. Once there, Call (Winona Ryder), must behind after uncharted paradise. It soon that begins killing helpless they discover colonists have escape and destroy ailing reveals itself to be dark and crew one-by-one, until only been wiped out after finding USM Auriga spaceship we go. There’s dangerous world inhabited Ellen Ripley (Sigourney derelict alien ship and its before its cargo of lethal a legacy of some by synthetic David Weaver) remains deadly cargo of eggs aliens reaches Earth sort that we’ve left (merging two popular sci-fi franchises) behind,” he added. Filmed in Sydney, Alien vs. Predator (AvP) AvP: Requiem Australia, movie stars Scott, who was Katherine Waterston (left) Release: 2004 Release: 2007 knighted in 2003, as terraforming expert Dir: Paul W. S. Anderson Dir: The Brothers Strause is about to make Daniels, who together with Rotten Tomatoes: 21% Rotten Tomatoes: 12% crew of Covenant, must a film about the Global box office: $172.5m Global box office: $128.9m face terrifying Xenomorph Battle of Britain aliens from previous movies, Industrialist Charles Set immediately after AvP, plus all new Neomorph Bishop Weyland (Lance Predalien hybrid crashes during World War creature Henriksen) discovers spaceship into small town in II, when the Royal ancient Antarctic arena – Colorado. Veteran Predator proving grounds for Alien arrives to clean up hybrid Air Force fought and Predator* monsters alien infestation off the German *1987 sci-fi movie set in Central American jungle, follows band of soldiers (led by Arnold Schwarzenegger) who fight to survive being hunted by alien predator Riddley scott Sources: Alien Vault (Aurum Press), Empire magazine, IMDB, Box Office Mojo, Rotten Tomatoes Pictures: © Twentieth Century Fox © GRAPHIC NEWS Luftwaffe. (AFP).