“It has completely turned my brain”: Without this movie, Ridley Scott would never have done this masterpiece of science fiction

Famous director Ridley Scott easily recognizes that without the first stellar wars, later baptized New hopeHe would probably never shoot one of the most amazing films: alien, eighth passenger. But how did it go?

At the beginning of her scott presented Dullists, a historical drama located in the 19th century. Society’s mixed welcome, criticism was favorable for him, and he won a prize for the best first movie at the Cannes Film Festival. According to this recognition, he was planning to adapt to the medieval legend of Tristan and Isis.

A cinema session that changed everything

Everything for this project seemed when someone was strongly advised to go to see a movie that was feeling at the time: Star Wars Signed by George Luke. Curious, Ridley Scott He attended the session and was immediately captured. He remembers this experience as a revelation, impressed by the film with special effects and energy. He later persuaded (through Layer): “I have never seen such a sense of mass excitement before and at its time. It was obvious.»

This consciousness forced him to change the course.

“” “I was surprised. Star wars completely turned my brain. So much so that when I got out of the cinema, I said to myself, ‘Why am I the devils that I do for Tristan and Isout?! Everything is changing! It’s time to get to work! ‘»

6 weeks and voila

This is how he offered science fiction, with all his emotional intensity, new prospects. Shortly after, a twentieth -century fox that was exactly distributed Star WarsOffered to implement a new project: Foreign. Ironically, Scott was not their first choice, but he managed to convince the producers thanks to his current legendary scenarios and his visual ideas, in the sense that the budget has doubled.

“” “For six weeks, they offered me a stranger. I was the fifth choice of studio“He revealed.

The result was a completely different film Star Wars. Although the latter happened in a distant galaxy, like a fairy tale “once Foreign Shaken in a terrible world where anxiety reigned. This is the fear that reigned this time. As you know, the film has become a great success that points to the science fiction turns.

Nevertheless, in the future – so later, with Blade Runner (1982) – and in space, Ridley Scott He never abandoned his taste for the historical age. If he did not update his Tristan and Yesite project, he would return to his medieval roots with films such as Kingdom of Heaven, Robin des Bois or The Last Duel. But that’s thanks Star Wars That he was able to go to the stars one day Foreign.

Star Wars: Episode IV – New Hope and UFO, Eighth Passenger Both walks on Disney+.