a. Ron Cobb's space jockey
The idea of the pilot was developed further by Ron Cobb who created a picture of a three eyed non-humanoid skeleton, and this is image satisfied Dan O'Bannon in terms of what he wanted.
- Dan O'Bannon: "For the inside, Ron Cobb did the skeleton - what they later called the Space Jockey - and it was perfect. It had a large cranium, and four or five eye sockets. Very small jawbone - no teeth to speak of." (Cinefex 1, p64, column 2)
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| Ron Cobb's non humanoid skeleton |
b. Chris Foss' space jockey
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| Chris Foss' "rotten head" (from Book of Alien by Scanlon and Gross) |
c. Moebius space jockey
Mediascene Issue 35 (later known as Prevue) credits this drawing to Moebius. It has the human astronauts seen in Moebius work. However Jean-Marc Lofficier, Moebius' former agent acknowledged to the writer of this blog that he himself wasn't so sure about this being Moebius work apart from the presence of the astronauts. The head of the space jockey here is basically the same as the drawing attributed to Chris Foss above. Neither Foss of Moebius have talked about the preproduction drawings of the space jockey so it is hard to say anything more. Moebius was only there for a short time while Ridley was working on the project and Chris Foss had been released from the project by Ridley when he stepped in. |
| Space Jockey credited to Moebius (I scanned this from American Cinematographer August 1979) |
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| Section of colour image of Moebius' Space Jockey (I scanned this from L'Écran Fantastique n° 167. Novembre 1997) |
d. Giger's Space Jockey
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| Necronom V |
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