The auteur recalled a studio executive encouraging him to make features about "normal people" (and not replicants or aliens) instead.

"There's only one film worked out of all of that lot," Scott said of his early feature output during a recent interview with Alien: Romulus writer-director Fede Alvarez on the Director's Guild of America's The Director's Cut podcast.

Ridley Scott is known to fascinate audiences with his unique storylines and spelling magic from behind the camera. Every Scott-directed movie has been fictional, or partly based on real-life characters.