In the long list of box office hits, James Cameron being handed the Alien franchise by Ridley Scott may be one of the biggest. Not necessarily reinventing the acid-soaked wheel of Scott's original 1979 sci-fi feature, 1986's Aliens saw Cameron add more grill and extra firepower to the Xenomorph franchise to a very different but very ways, equally successful results. It seemed justified, then, when Cameron chimed in with his thoughts on Scott's return to the "alien" property via the thought-provoking Prometheus prequel.

It may not always rank as one of the people's favorite Alien movies.but Scott's massive and far more cerebral 2012 film has its moments. However, Cameron felt things didn't quite come together in the film. "I thought it was an interesting film. I thought it was thought-provoking and beautifully, visually set up, but at the end of the day it doesn't add up logically," the director once admitted in Reddit AMA. "But I enjoyed it, and I'm glad it was made." I liked it more than the previous two Alien sequels.

Cameron repeated his thoughts in a separate interview he gave in 2012in which he stated, "Maybe there were a few things I would have done differently (from Scott in Prometheus) but that's not the point, you could say that about any movie." Scott and Cameron not seeing eye-to-eye on the Alien franchise is nothing new, as the former was also concerned about the future of the Xenomorph when Cameron took control of the property in 1986.

It may have been 38 years since James Cameron's power packed Alien saga, but Ridley Scott can still recall his initial reaction when he learned that a fresh start would add a new chapter to his original creature feature. "When Jim called me and said, listen ... he was very nice, but he said, 'This is hard, your beast is so unique. "It's hard to make it scary again, now a familiar place," said Scott. Deadline in a 2023 interview. "So he said, 'I'm going for more action, kind of an army.' I said, "Okay." And that's the first time I actually thought, "Welcome to Hollywood."

In Scott's eyes, anyone returning to LV-426 was doing something that could not or, at the time, should not be done again. "I was pissed off. I wouldn't tell Jim that, but I think I was hurt. I knew I had done something very special, truly one of a kind. I was hurt, deeply hurt, actually because at that point, I think I was damaged goods because I was trying to recover from 'Blade Runner' (disappointing at the box office)," Scott added. It may have been a slow recovery, but there's no doubt that Scott's sci-fi noir received just as much respect as his introduction to The Xenomorph, leading to the director being responsible for not one, but two the greatest science fiction films ever made. Not bad for a man.