has made some of the most iconic movies in modern cinema, some of which spun off into major Hollywood franchises. Scott says in a recent interview that he “should have done the sequels to and to ,” but the task went to other filmmakers instead. There are multiple reasons for that—those films came early in his career, and “At that time, I didn’t want to go through it again,” Scott explains.
But part of the reason he may not have wanted to “go through it” was because of the Hollywood strictures placed on a young up-and-coming director. “I’m the author of two franchises. Most directors in Hollywood—certainly, let’s say, at my level—don’t let that stuff go,” Scott says, presumably meaning the rights to his movies.
“But I did as my second movie, so I didn’t have much choice. And was my third movie. So, I had no choice because I had very tough partners.
It was kind of ‘Welcome to Hollywood.’” In fact, “I was never told or asked” about making sequels, he claims. “You can imagine I wasn’t happy.
” In other words, because Scott didn’t have ownership of the properties that he launched early in his career, the studios or producers he worked with on those films could do whatever they wanted with them. That means: give the movies away to someone else (like and David Fincher in the franchise) or put them on the shelf. He was supposed to direct the sequel more than 30 years after his original film, but had to pass up the opportunity in orde.