AVP Writer Dismisses Sigourney Weaver’s Criticism

A while back Sigourney Weaver took aim at the Alien Vs. Predator.  Obviously she didn’t like the idea and still doesn’t.  After that, the man who originally pitched the idea to Fox, Peter Briggs, has come out to counter Weaver’s criticisms.

His response came via Bloody-Disgusting and talks about the timelines of development between Alien 3 and the original Alien vs. Predator script:

“Larry Gordon would later tell me “Alien vs Predator” had only been discussed for the first time at Fox literally days before Steve gave him the script in September 1991, which is why I was in the right place at the right time to make my first sale. Maybe they were in a panic about “Alien 3”…I have no idea. And so when I hear Sigourney Weaver recounting her killing off Ripley in “Alien 3” because she’d heard Fox were talking about doing “Alien vs Predator”, despite the fact our project was first spoken about and initiated well over a year (not even counting Vincent Ward’s involvement!) after her movie had gone into active production, I really have to roll my eyes at her claims.”

Note that Briggs is not the man who wrote the eventual turd that came to be – thanks, Paul W.S. Anderson.