The fourth “Alien” film, “Alien: Resurrection,”The odd film in the series is due to the combination of Joss Whedon (writer) and Director (director).“Amelie” filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet). The two’s differing sensibilities don’t quite gel in a story that finds Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley resurrected with xenomorph DNA and kinda-sorta making out with a newborn xenomorph alien hybrid. Whedon has been candid in the past about saying how he felt the production didn’t do his script justice, and now Jeunet is speaking up — and he doesn’t much care for the kinds of movies Whedon makes anyway.
Part of the a 25th anniversary interview with The Independent, Jeunet acknowledged he’d seen what Whedon said about “Alien: Resurrection” and that Whedon’s version of the movie likely would have been a bigger financial success (the film debuted behind “Flubber” at the box office) – although not something, creatively, that the French filmmaker finds interesting.
“I know Joss Whedon said some bad things about me,”Jeunet spoke. “I don’t care. I know if Joss Whedon had made the film himself, it probably would have been a big success. He’s very good at making films for American geeks – something for morons. Because he’s very good at making Marvel films. I hate this kind of movie. It’s so silly, so stupid.”
Whedon was dissatisfied with the film’s ending in 2005.
“It wasn’t a question of doing everything differently, although they changed the ending, it was mostly a matter of doing everything wrong,”He said. “They said the lines…mostly…but they said them all wrong. And they cast it wrong. And they designed it wrong. And they scored it wrong. They did everything wrong that they could possibly do.”
The filmmaker continued. “It wasn’t so much that they’d changed the script; it’s that they just executed it in such a ghastly fashion as to render it almost unwatchable.”
The date of publication “Alien: Resurrection”Whedon, a Hollywood script doctor and a blockbuster producer in 1997 was Whedon. “Speed” “Twister”but was determined to make his own mark with his TV series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” He would, of course, eventually go on to write and direct Marvel’s first two massively successful “Avengers” movies and spearhead reshoots on Warner Bros.’ 2017 “Justice League” film.
The “Alien”Jeunet, franchise, says in an anniversary interview that “Alien 3”David Fincher, director of the company, called David to warn him after he signed up for his first job. “When I arrived, David called me and said, ‘Give up! Go back to Paris! ‘Alien 3’ was a nightmare!’”He laughed.
But during production, Jeunet says he had “almost total freedom,”He gave a candid assessment of the film after he revisited it recently.
“I have a lot of shots that I love. For the people who don’t like it, I can say, ‘f— you!’”
