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...feel I should take very little credit for that. It was funny because the decision to make the character Ripley a woman was made by David Giler, Walter Hill, and Gordon Carroll [producers], who bought Dan O'Bannon's script which was all male. They basically rewrote the script, and they were looking at it and thought, wouldn't it be great if the hero winds up being this girl you don't expect. They just kind of did that because they thought it would be a good plot surprise, it was written exactly like...
...direct his first feature, Piranha II. By 1983 Cameron and Hurd had written an original script called The Terminator, and Alien's proprietors were impressed with it. They called Cameron in to discuss another project, about which they could not reach agreement. Before he left, however, Producer David Giler threw out the possibility of working on a new Alien. "I felt like he was digging out an old bone in the backyard," Cameron recalls, "dragging out something no one had been thinking much about...
SOUTHERN COMFORT Directed by Walter Hill Screenplay by Michael Kane Walter Hill and David Giler Hip deep in a Louisiana swamp, the squad of National Guardsmen gets befuddled. According to the map, there shouldn't be a lake around here. But there is, and unless they steal some boats to cross it, they will not reach their objective in time. This they do, which riles the crafts' Cajun owners, whose tempers are not improved when the weekend soldiers fire blanks at them. Indeed, that is all it takes to turn a war game into a deadly game...
Screenplay by DAVID GILER, JERRY BELSON and MORDECAI RICHLER
Screenplay by DAVID GILER and LORENZO SEMPLE...