James Cameron talks Romulus and if he'd come back to Alien franchise

Last week, meanwhile, saw the opening of Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus, a story set between Ridley Scott’s 1979 Alien and Cameron’s 1986 sequel Aliens, both starring Sigourney Weaver. Cameron offered advice on the project but is quick to play down his role.

“I wasn’t really helping out,” he insists. “I know Fede, the director, and very early on he and his writing partner came to me and said, ‘Got any ideas?’ – no, they had plenty of ideas but they just wanted to kind of, I don’t know, pilgrimage to Mecca or something like that. But that was years ago, then they went off and wrote their thing and I had nothing to do with it.

“Then six months ago or so he shared an early cut of the film with me and I gave him some notes for like an hour. I don’t want to take any credit whatsoever. If the film is great, I don’t want to take any credit; if it sucks, not my fault! Seriously, it’s his thing, so credit due where it’s due and, from what I’m hearing, it’s pretty good.”

Would Cameron ever consider a return to the franchise? “It’s kind of trampled ground at this point. I wouldn’t rule anything out but I’ve got 23 other projects in the queue before that hypothetical one so I’m going to guess, with me turning 70, that ain’t gonna happen. You’ve got to pick your battles at some point. You know what I mean?”

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