- filmofilia.com
- ‘Prometheus,’ the upcoming prequel to ‘Alien,’ is the latest directorial effort by Ridley Scott.
Ridley Scott is the definitive science fiction populist, never meandering into over-technical schlock like Star Trek: Nemesis or self-important grimness like the last third of what-could-have-been-great Sunshine. When he debuted Alien for moviegoers in 1979, his movie would inevitably be compared to the other sci-fi flicks that marked the era, like the meditation on existence that was Blade Runner and the fantastical Star Wars franchise, both of which did well enough at the box office — actually, that’s an understatement where Star Wars is concerned — and spelled certain greatness for a cinema landscape just waiting to be filled with snarling, other-worldly creatures and rocket fuel.
This article appears in Mar 22-28, 2012.
