After directing the first Alien film in 1979 and then returning for 2012s Prometheus and 2017s Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott has now passed the baton to Fede lvarez for Alien: Romulus while still giving a few notes.

At the Romulus premiere in Los Angeles on Monday, Scott who is a producer on the project told The Hollywood Reporter that when lvarez showed him the movie for the first time, I was hugely relieved that it was potentially a huge film and I just said, You dont have to take a note, but Ill tell you what I think.' The filmmaker explained that he wrote down notes instead of saying them aloud to lvarez, then he reads them privately, kicks the wall, punches the door, and then comes back out and said, They were good notes.' Scott also made a suggestion to cut down the film, noting, Directors tend to make it too long; it was long so you dont want to lose your dynamic. The dynamics in this kind of movie are everything, and he had so much going on; he didnt need so much.

Ridley Scott shares the advice he gave to director Fede Álvarez after he watched a cut of #AlienRomulus for the first time pic.twitter.com/XiDJuzyel7

The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 13, 2024 In choosing lvarez to take over the franchise, Scott pointed to his previous work which includes Evil Dead and Dont Breathe and emphasized, You dont give this to a starter because youll get eaten alive by the studio people have no idea what it is to be a director starting on your first movie with everyone telling you what to do. Talk about too many cooks in the kitchen, are you kidding me, and youve got to actually say, Stand back.'

Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu star in the film, which follows a group of young space colonizers who come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

Of taking on the franchise, lvarez said, Alien has always been the scariest movie ever for me, so to be able to go into that world and bring it to a new generation, and bring it to life in a way its never been brought to life before and in such a realistic and almost documentary way, it really was the things that made all my nightmares.

Director Fede Álvarez explains how he brings his biggest nightmares to screen with #AlienRomulus pic.twitter.com/lHZLRhOlag

The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 13, 2024 He also explained the decision to use practical effects over visual effects, saying, Obviously its easier to just shoot an empty space and get some CG creature later on; we didnt do that. We went all the way to create creatures we did technology of today with the philosophy of the old movies, but with technology of today to create something that people dont see onscreen everyday.

Alien: Romulus hits theaters Friday.

Tiffany Taylor contributed to this report.