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From Wikipedia: So yeah, I never heard this story of Romero watching the film and being cool with it. I also think the lawsuit was probalby justified. Return of the Living Dead definitely blends the line between parody and "derivative work," although a lot of lawsuit was about the movie...

Romero sued them over that movie. There was definitley conflict. And O'Bannon was definitely completely complicit in that with his utterly ridiculous screenplay. This would be like if some guy other than Francis Ford Coppola or Mario Puzzo made a movied named "Return of the Godfather" to be...

He originally wrote the film as a Hammer b-movie. Obviously, he was involved with getting people to raise the project's quality to something much more substantive, but still. If you want to talk about O'Bannon doing stuff that is questionable, just look at Return of the Living Dead. I don't...

Sounds like O'Banon trying to save face in retrospect of Sigourney's involvement in the series being hugely iconic. I'm not really buying that one completely. He obviously thinks he could've derided stuff like Ash (although he's completely wrong), but obviously he would come off as just an ass...

They also made Ripley female. Without that, the entire dynamics of the film's themes change.