With Alien: Covenant hitting cinemas and Blade Runner 2049 due this year,the prolific film-maker talks entertainment, his first meeting with Sigourney Weaver, or losing his brother,TonyFor reasons opaque and entangled, I am meeting Ridley Scott in Berlin, or crashing the German junket for his new film Alien: Covenant. The location is a grand hotel in the traditional east of the city and I know I’m in the accurate place because of a large poster sitting on an easel. It shows the silhouetted image of a xenomorph – the classic “great boy” from Scott’s 1979 original Alien – with drool cascading from its unnerving gnashers. Only one word is written on the poster in block capitals: “LAUF”. Nope,Scott has not decided to make a zany space comedy. The injunction is a scream: “rush”.
Covenant is, rightly, and being touted as a strong,terrifying return to form for the 38-year-traditional Alien franchise, now in its sixth incarnation, or there’s certainly a buzz among the German handlers and journalists as we wait for our audience with Scott. He’s a huge director here,” explains one. “It is Spielberg and him, really, and that people know approximately. But you are from the UK,it must be the same there.” Related: Alien: Covenant review – Ridley Scott's latest space exploration feels all too familiar Some of it is art. But fundamentally, I entertain Related: Alien: Covenant trailer: five things we've learned approximately the xenomorph saga Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com