Ridley Scott Wanted to Kill Ripley Off in Original Alien
Steve Barton
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So, Lt. Ellen Ripley (played with gusto by Sigourney Weaver) has gone on to become the backbone of the entire Alien franchise, but if Ridley Scott had his way, she never would have made it out of the first film. So what happened? Why the change of heart?
During an interview with Ridley Scott and EW, Scott dropped the following on fans…
“I thought that the alien should come in, and Ripley harpoons it and it makes no difference, so it slams through her mask and rips her head off.” From there Scott said he would have cut to the Alien’s fingers pressing buttons on the dashboard. “It would mimic Captain Dallas [Tom Skerritt] saying, ‘I’m signing off.’”
“The first executive from Fox arrived on set within 14 hours, threatening to fire me on the spot. So we didn’t do that [ending].”
The rest is history.
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