Ridley Scott er lidt af en kontrolfreak når det gælder hans egne IP'er, og derfor var det lettere overraskende at han endte med at overgive Alien-ansvaret til en anden instruktør, Fede Álvarez, der står klar med sin Alien-film næste år.
Dog tyder noget på at Scott er meget tilfreds med Álvarez og filmen generelt. I et interview med Guillermo del Toro ved DGA Latino Summit 2023 (tak Collider) sagde Álvarez dette om Scotts reaktion, der for nylig har set en Director's Cut-udgave af den kommende film:
"Even if he didn't ask for it, I was gonna go there and sit at a table and look at him and get it. Even if he was gonna say, 'You destroyed my legacy,' I wanted to be in front of him and see him in the eye. I didn't want to get an email where it says 'Ridley says...' And then he walks into the room and he did say, 'Fede, what can I say? It's fucking great."
"For me, it was like... My family knows it was one of the best moments of my life to have a master like him, whom I admired so much, to even watch a movie I made, but particularly something like this... and talk to me for an hour about what he liked about it. One of the best compliments he said was, 'The dialogue is great. Are you the writer?' Yes!"
Det må have været ret stort for instruktøren, og det gør da ikke spændingen omkring filmen mindre. Den lander d. 16 august 2024.