The Beast with Metal Teeth

leading from alien: afterworlds of thoughtRichard Keel, an actor whose body height was 7 foot 2 inches appeared as the character named Jaws in the movie "The Spy Who Loved Me" in 1977, and the character's teeth were made from steel and he could bite through cable.In the Alien production, they also opted to give the Alien inner and outer sets of teeth that were supposed to be steel, although in the end were chrome plat...

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Nostromo

Leading from  Alien  Nostromo's refinery with spires that didn't appear in the filmThe VesselRon Cobb's design philosophy Exterior Creating The NostromoRidley's Nostromo and RefineryBuilding the RefineryMoebius inspiration for refinery platformPossible Robert McCall inspiration for refinery platformChris Foss inspiration for the Nostromo exteriorYellow NostromoThe kits that Martin namedSteve Jolliffe of Tangerine Dream joins the...

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Obvious kit sprue

Leading fromThe NostromoBill Pearson: A lot of insert shots were shot at the end where everyone says," Hey! Isn't that a load of kit bits and sprues?" This is the scene where Ripley ejects the Alien from the Narcissus, and there is a closeup of buttons being pushed on a control panel.One of the model makers who will remain nameless to save his blushed was standing by on the stage that evening when it was being shot. He was asked to dress around...

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Moebius inspiration for refinery platform

leading The Nostromoa. ) A major inspiration for Ridley Scott were drawings by Moebius as featured in the comic book Metal Hurlant (and it's American counterpart Heavy Metal) that Ivor Powell introduced him to while while filming The Duellists in Dordoigne.The writer of this blog recalls from memory of the Memories of Alien interview at the Empire Big Screen, 2011.b. ) When Ridley made the sudden jump to having Nostromo's refinery platform ...

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Possible Robert McCall inspiration for refinery platform

The NostromoMcCall's work for Kubrick's 2001a) Robert McCall December 23, 1919 – February 26, 2010) the artist a science fiction artist was well known for his paintings of space crafts and also his floating cities. In 1971 Robert McCall created a painting floating city featuring a floating platform with towers and spheres, (featured on the right) it's a structure bearing some similarities to the Nostromo's refinery platform, and one can ask the...

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Chris Foss inspiration for the Nostromo

leading from The NostromoThe Nostromoa) Ron Cobb borrowed from Chris FossChris Foss, before Ridley Scott dropped him from the production, had been creating many concept drawings for the design of the Nostromo, and so it went that when they needed to design the final thing. Although Chris Foss was not directly involved with the design of the final Nostromo, Brian Johnson went away with Chris Foss's amd Ron Cobb's designs to build the final spaceship...

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Ron Cobb's design philosophy

leading fromNostromoDan O'Bannon with Ron Cobba) As a concept designer, Ron Cobb imagined himself to be a frustrated engineer,  he had lots of opinions about how certain problems could be solved using present technology or even speculating about near future technology, So when he worked on a film, he liked to take this challenge and design a spacecraft as though it were absolutely real, right down to the fuel tolerances, the centers of gravity,...

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Yellow Nostromo

leading fromThe Nostromoa.) The rise and fall of the yellow NostromoFor about three months the Nostromo had been painted yellow and green. Simon Deering remembered when one day Brian Johnson was looking at the model of the space ship and then the tattered old mostly ignored Ron Cobb sketch on the wall in the studio and then back at the model of the ship.Suddenly sparking up Brian said "Hey .. It should be yellow! Go get some paint!".So they had to...

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The Secret Doctrine & Simon Deering's Auto Destruct Panel

From: The NostromoandInto the Minds of the Production CrewSimon Deering: I reckon it was the Shakti Excess  button that caused the trouble.. straight after the Pranic Lift. a)  Mr Ridley's requestRidley Scott said to Simon Deering "make some nice buttons, complicated and interesting because they wont be on screen for more than a second or two "Simon of course knew his philosphy was generally 'you may not see it, but if it wasnt there...

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