Jim Cameron Shares Thoughts On New Alien Movies

Jim Cameron is currently busy on new Avatar movies (he’s rumoured to start shooting two this August), whereas Ridley Scott has prepared a new Alien movie with Neill Blomkamp hoping to shoot his own.  Speaking with Vulture recently, this is what Jim Cameron had to say about the new direction of the Alien series;

“The franchise has kind of wandered all over the map. Ridley [Scott] did the first film, and he inspired an entire generation of filmmakers and science-fiction fans with that one movie.

There have been so many films that stylistically have derived from it, including my own Aliens, which was the legitimate sequel and, I think, the proper heir to his film. I sort of did it as a fanboy. I wanted to honor his film, but also say what I needed to say. After that, I don’t take any responsibility.

I don’t think it’s worked out terribly well. I think we’ve moved on beyond it. It’s like, okay, we’ve got it, we’ve got the whole Freudian biomechanoid meme. I’ve seen it in 100 horror films since.

I think both of those films stand at a certain point in time, as a reference point. But is there any validity to doing another one now? I don’t know. Maybe. Let’s see, jury’s out. Let’s see what Ridley comes up with.

Let me just add to that – and don’t cut this part off, please – I will stand in line for any Ridley Scott movie, even a not-so-great one, because he is such an artist, he’s such a filmmaker. I always learn from him. And what he does with going back to his own franchise would be fascinating.

Cameron seems to flip flop and move back and forward on his opinions on certain movies like Terminator and Alien sequels, it seems to depend on the P.R. window.