Ridley Scott Credits Star Trek For His Return to Alien and Blade Runner

Ridley Scott creditsStar Trekfor inflate the skill fabrication genre in film , thus permit him to return to theAlienandBlade Runnerfranchises . In Hollywood ’s former years , sci - fi film were reserved to adaptation of famed novel from authors such as Jules Verne , Mary Shelley , and Robert Louis Stevenson . It was n’t until the ' 70s and early ' 80s - with film such asThe Terminator , confining Encounters of the Third Kind , and of course , Star Trek : The Motion Picture- that original construct started to take shape and become mainstream .

The upsurge in man space geographic expedition during that time time period bestow credence to futuristic sci - fi film that inundated those two decades . Furthermore , it ’s what finally chair to Scott ’s iconic 1982 filmBlade Runner . The picture , although technically an adaptation of Philip K. Dick ’s 1968 novelDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? , was , by and heavy , an original tale that followed protagonist Rick Deckard . Even though the movie was n’t commercially successful , it was regarded by critics asone of the heavy sci - fi picture ever to free . And it was n’t until recently that Scott even consider returning to the universe , something he creditsStar Trekfor .

Scott executive produced Denis Villeneuve’sBlade Runnersequel , Blade Runner : 2049 , and he ’s been busy advance the pic ’s upcoming outlet . In an interview withDen of Geek , the legendary filmmaker revealed that he never had any purpose to come back to the sci - fi musical style after releasingAlienandBlade Runner , but onceStar Trekhad " awakened " the genre , he settle to plot a replication .

" You change over time . At that point I had no sake in ever doing a subsequence , that ’s why I never did a subsequence to Alien for another 20 years , and then I think ' Do you know what , I ’d better go back to this . ' Because I ’d done two science fable [ films ] , Alien and Blade Runner , and I mat that that was it . That ’s enough scientific discipline fiction for a career . And of track , I never make that the waking up of the science fabrication universe , over many , many films , would get so big . You ca n’t thank Star Wars for that , you may give thanks , God consecrate them , Star Trek . You ’ve got all that . It ’s evolved and made another form of entertainment . "

It ’s surely interesting that Scott would single outStar Trekfor expanding the sci - fi genre into mainstream audience , but it makes sensory faculty considering just how influential the dealership has been over these past 51 years . Gene Roddenberry had createdStar Trek : The Original Series , starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy , back in 1966 . Although the series did n’t last long on the air , it was later on revived on the large screen , and thatspawned a enfranchisement that continues to rage on to this day .

Of course , Scott has since returned to theAlienandBlade Runnerfranchises in the age sinceStar Trek- and the sci - fi genre as a whole - began to prosper . He ’s currently in the middle of developing theAlienprequel series , withtwo more installment in the pipeline , whileBlade Runner : 2049is on the verge of releasing this weekend . If that die well , the film producer already hasideas on how to expand theBlade Runnerfranchise . We ’ll just have to wait and see if that happens .