She thinks it ended up being a good movie but understands why David Fincher isn't a fan.
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carrybuh — 1 year ago(August 29, 2024 03:06 PM)
She thinks it ended up being a good movie but understands why David Fincher isn't a fan.
https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/sigourney-weaver-alien-3-david-fincher-idiotic-studio-1235040980/
Weaver told Deadline that a young Fincher, making his directorial debut, had to “fight every day” for his vision of the third franchise installment. The original “Alien” was directed by Ridley Scott; “Aliens” was directed by James Cameron. A pretty good pedigree there.
While Fincher no doubt felt pressure following in those footsteps, Weaver says the studio was “idiotic” to battle the newcomer for creative control.
“I could feel that David had to get on the phone and fight every day for us to shoot what he wanted to the next day. And I’m sorry that he didn’t get a chance to make the script his own before we started,” Weaver said. “That makes filmmaking very difficult.
“I heard recently that David has disowned the project and I’m sorry about that because I loved working with him, and I think we made a good film,” she said. “I’m glad he got a chance to do his version. It was a great ensemble.”
David Fincher's thoughts on the film:
Fincher told The Guardian in 2009 that “a lot of people hated ‘Alien 3,’ but no one hated it more than I did.” He recalled being “fired off it three times” during the two-year production.
“I had to fight for every single thing. No one hated it more than me; to this day, no one hates it more than me,” Fincher said. “It was a baptism by fire. I was very naive. For a number of years, I’d been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I’d always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid. So I learned on this movie that nobody really knows, so therefore no one has to care, so it’s always going to be your fault.”
He added, “I’d always thought, ‘Well, surely you don’t want to have the 20th Century Fox logo over a ****ty movie.’ And they were like, ‘Well, as long as it opens.’ So I learned then just to be a belligerent asshole, which was really, ‘You have to get what you need to get out of it.’ You have to fight for things you believe in, and you have to be smart about how you position it so that you don’t just become white noise. On that movie, I was the guy who was constantly the voice of ‘We need to do this better, we need to do this, this doesn’t make sense.’ And pretty soon, it was like in Peanuts: WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP! They’d go, ‘He’s doing that again, he’s frothing at the mouth, he seems so passionate.’ They didn’t care.”