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In 1977 , Ridley Scott was still smarting from the box office failure of his first film, The Duellists .
He decided to focus on a big-screen version of the medieval tale Tristan and Isolde .
After seeing Star Wars, Scott jumped at the offer of Alien , which he was offered six weeks later .
Sigourney Weaver's tough-as-nails, can-do performance would become the movie’s most indelible one.
The film became one of the top-grossing movies of 1979 , setting house records on its opening weekend on its way to scaring up $106 million at the box office.
Dune was first optioned by Planet of the Apes producer Arthur P. Jacobs in 1972 .
The big-screen adaptation loitered in development purgatory until the producer’s death in 1973 .
Alejandro Jodorowsky assembled a dream team of future-shock artists, including O’Bannon, Giger , Moebius , and Salvador Dalí .
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