‘I felt a lack of support from the studio’: Sigourney Weaver recounts the worst filming of the Alien saga.

From Alien to Avatar, Gorilla Mist, The Year of All Danger, Working Girl or Ghostbusters to name a few films, Sigourney Weaver has clearly shown that she is the best actress she’s had in a long time. Nothing more to prove. The actor, who is about to receive a career award at the Venice Film Festival, gave a long interview to the site term. And to mention Alien 3 in the discussion, David Fincher’s cursed movie.

“His support was very stupid”

“I felt that David should call And we fought every day to shoot what he wanted the next day. And I’m sorry that he didn’t have a chance to grasp the script before he started. This makes filming very difficult.

I remember that the original script Vincent Ward It was about the monks in the monastery and that Ripley was in a coma for half the script. So I felt a lack of support from the studio.

It was a transition moment where studios stopped focusing on “let’s make great movies” and started focusing on “let’s not lose money.” They had a great idea to cast David Fincher in his first film, but his backing was so stupid. It helped us on the England tour to get us going somewhat.

He adds: I heard that David rejected the film and I am sorry about that because I loved working with him and I think we made a good film. I’m glad he had the chance to do his version.”. Here’s a reference to the fact that Fincher refused to dive into Alien 3 , leaving the field open for a version A producer’s cutAn additional 30 minutes compared to the film’s theatrical version, which runs 114 minutes.

“It was crazy…”

The first production for Fincher to come from the world of commercials and music videos, Alien 3’s experience was actually one of the filmmaker’s most painful, as revealed in an extraordinary documentary. Wreckage & Rage: The Making of Alien 3 (available on Blu-ray in an extended version), which chronicles the film’s chaotic production, between producers and screenwriters, studio executives, and a director who parachuted in to head a new installment. Saga, which he still admires more than anything else.

But he also has the arrogance of his youth and the environment he comes from. Fox relied on his cinematic inexperience and a certain complacency on his part. Fincher, for his part, wanted to leave his mark on this new part of the saga and rise, in his own words, to the level of the two previous opuses.

“We started filming with only a forty page script” He would later say, on one of the very rare occasions when he agreed to talk on set; “Changes were coming at us so fast that after receiving the pages on the fax machine, we were putting the scenes into boxes. It was crazy.

At the end of the film’s test screening, Fox experts were in a panic. The major ordered Fincher to do it filming. But regardless, and in the face of declared or impending disaster, the studio re-edited the film behind the apprentice director’s back.