io9 | by Charlie Jane Anders | Thu, Aug 20
Thu, Aug 20
The studio originally only wanted to give director Ridley Scott a $4.2 million budget, until he showed them storyboards and Mobius illustrations. But, says Scott in a recent interview, "The [revised] budget started out at $.8.2-million and ended up at 8.6, which I think in those days was stil...
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