David Giler

... coming in, like, changes who's the author of the franchise.

The truth is is that the real authors, or not authors, but the real controllers are Giler and Walter Hill.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, but before the novel was ever published, a, a copy of the book wound up in the hands of David Giler, and this is...

The novel, no, or s- a lot of times in Hollywood, we've talked about this before, is that it's called the ga- galleys, where a unpublished book, uh, is seen by Hollywood executives to see if they wanna adapt it into a film.

And this person found this book in galleys and read it.

There was also some, uh, financial to-and-fro behind the scenes that, uh, stalled things out.

But original producers David Giler and Walter Hill, they had faith in it, and they also came up with this concept Ripley plus soldiers, which is...

That's what, of course, Aliens became.

Uh- They didn't work on it themselves, though.