The Untold Story of How Ridley Scott Saw ‘Star Wars’—and Ended Up Making ‘Alien’

One day in 1977, while working in RSA’s Los Angeles satellite office, Ridley Scott got the sign he’d been waiting for. The sign that would once and for all turn him away from the past and point him toward the future. A sign that came from a galaxy far, far away.

“I remember someone coming into my office and saying, ‘Ridley, you’d better go see this new movie called *Star Wars*.’ It was playing not far away at Mann’s Chinese Theatre,” Scott says. “So I went over there, and people were lining up around the block. It was extraordinary. I’d never seen anything like it, that sense of mass excitement, before or since. It was palpable.”

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