Ridley Scott Has An Idea For A ‘Thelma & Louise’ TV Show And Calls Artist H.R. Giger A “Real Original”

In recent years, the films by Ridley Scott have been a bit up and down. The successes like “The Martian” and “All the Money in the World” get offset by the misses like “The Counselor” and “Alien: Covenant.” However, what can’t be denied is that Scott is a legendary director that has quite a few truly classic films under his belt. Two of which being “Thelma & Louise” and “Alien.” In a recent interview, Scott goes over those two films and gives a little bit of insight.

“’Thelma & Louise’ was a one-off odyssey of two women who slide into trouble through the law, therefore are misunderstood, and it ends up in tragedy,” Scott said, in an interview with Yahoo. “I always wanted it to be an odyssey, a kind of high rather than low emotion. The fact that I froze the car in the air meant, simply, that they could continue the journey, so that was carefully thought through.”

He continues to talk about the influence that film has made but also doesn’t think you could ever remake the film, especially as a TV series.

“God bless you, because if you want to go do, do it,” the filmmaker said. “For it to be a TV show it would have to be on the road, there would have to be some mischief and, you know, one a week is a tough call. You can’t suddenly turn them into detectives or something like that so what are you going to do? Are they going to be vigilantes of Time’s Up? Actually, that’s a good idea innit?”

“Thelma & Louise” in the Time’s Up era? Sounds good to us!

Switching gears, Scott talks about working with the legendary artist H.R. Giger on the film “Alien.” As the director details, if it wasn’t for the art from Giger, we probably wouldn’t have the classic sci-fi horror film.

“In my career, which has been pretty long, there’s only been, with the greatest respect for the people I’ve worked with, two real, real originals,” he said. “Funnily enough, I came across a guy called HR Giger and if I hadn’t got that monster you would not have had that movie.”

“It wouldn’t have been the same movie,” he continued. “Whilst the cast was wonderful, with Sigourney [Weaver] and Harry [Dean Stanton] and those people, but without that eighth passenger it wouldn’t have been the same film.”

Ultimately, Scott wraps up by talking about how, if you meet someone on the level of Giger, you can’t let them go.

“What I’m trying to say is that there are rarities, there are those [ideas] that occur once in the while, not that often, but when they do grab them and hang on to them.”