ridley scott directed the film thelma  louise
unhappy with the theatrical version of kingdom of heaven which he blamed on paying too much attention to the opinions of preview audiences in addition to relenting when fox wanted 45 minutes shaved off scott supervised a directors cut of the film the true version of what he wanted which was released on dvd in 2006
 scott later returned to alienrelated projects when he directed prometheus and alien covenant three decades after the original films release