There seems to be something missing from that interview / article.
He blames the Fox studio system for the state of the Alien franchise, saying that the entire fandom distrusts them, and yet he plans on going to a meeting with Steve Tzirlin at Fox and pitching his script.
What was he hoping for - that Fox would hand him a deal memo to sign and a big wad of cash, at which point he would laugh in their faces and make his accusations that they, in their ineptitude, was destroying the Alien franchise and he would never allow their studio system to corrupt the purity of his script, and then storm out of the meeting having delivered his devastating
gotcha moment?
Clearly not. But he must have had some plan to extract finance and support from Fox while telling them to back off and wait for him to return with the movie all completed. What was this plan?
That's the part that's missing
TC