James Cameron confirms the urban legend of how he pitched Aliens.
✖ If you're a film fan with an obsession over the work of James Cameron then there might be a story about how he pitched Aliens that you've heard. As the tale goes, Cameron reportedly went to 20th Century Fox and when eager to make a sequel to Ridley Scott's Alien had a simple pitch. The filmmaker wrote the title on a whiteboard, added an S, and then turned that S into a $.
"Yeah, it's true," Cameron told CinemaBlend when asked about the legend."It just popped into my mind in the moment. It was actually on the back of a script, or some kind of presentation document. It might've been the treatment. I can't remember. I was sitting with the three producers, and we were in the office of the then-head of 20th Century Fox. And I said, 'Guys, I got an idea for the title. And it goes like this.
To his point, he ended up being right. Aliens would outgross the original Alien movie at the domestic box office by about $20 million, but ended up with a similar worldwide haul. Adjusted for inflation, Aliens' $85 million domestic total translates to $210 million in 2021 while its worldwide total of $183.3 million is adjusted to $464.85 million. With a reported production budget of $17 million though, it was a huge hit and nabbed seven Academy Award nominations and won two of them.
0commentsCameron is hard at work on his next highly anticipated sequel, the follow-up to his 2009 movie Avatar, but the Alien franchise is working on another chapter in an FX TV series from Noah Hawley.
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