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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhGWceHE6T8
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Chris Cunningham introduces "jaqapparatus 1"
http://vimeo.com/57683223
Monday, May 19, 1997
Thursday, March 20, 1997
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a) The Giler solution
Alien 3 had been filmed, Ripley has died. How can another Alien movie starring Sigourney Weaver as Ripley go on?
Sigourney said to David Giler on the night of the wrap party on Alien 3 "I'm gonna miss this character"
Giler replied "don't be silly, this character is you know, she'd just had her chest ripped out in a pit of fire and you know and all the rest of it. So we start Alien four , we go to some laboratory some place and they open up a drawer, and they've got your fingernail clippings in there. And they clone you and you're a whole new one. "
"Really?" replied Sigourney
Giler continued "We could bully them. If anyone wants to bring you back we can do it."
Sigourney wasn't saying no to this but on the other hand, she wondered just how many times could the character of Ripley wake up to the same situation over and over again and win, and then go back to sleep and then have the same thing happen in the next movie
Giler would later have somebody came to him and say "I think they are talking about making another Alien", and when somebody came to ask him how he thought it should be done, he would have an idea.
b) Joss Whedon resurrects Ripley
Joss Whedon for his Alien 3 script devised an idea that the new character Ripley 8 is cloned from blood samples taken from her taken on the planet Fiorina by the Doctor there, and the reason that she is cloned is because she had an alien inside her.
Source Quotes
David Giler on the possible return of Ripley
- David Giler: If everyone loves this movie, there will be a fourth one. It's science fiction, there are nine million ways to bring Ripley back, or to do other stories. (CFQ:V22,:N6:p14)
- David Giler: Sigourney told me on the night of the rap party on Alien Three that she was gonna miss this character. I said "don't be silly, this character is you know, she'd just had her chest ripped out in a pit of fire and you know and all the rest of it. I said so we start Alien three, we go to some laboratory some place and they open up a drawer, and they've got your fingernail clippings in there. And they clone you and you're a whole new one." "Really?" "We could bully them. If anyone wants to bring you back we can do it." And it's pretty much like that. Somebody came to me now and said, I think they are talking about making another Alien and you know, somebody comes and asks me how I think it should be done, I've got an idea. (report from the interview of Alien Evolutions)
- Starburst: So this is finally the end of the line for Ripley?
Sigourney Weaver: Well, If Walter (Hill) and David (Giler) and all those guys can come up with some amazing scenario where Ripley could be reconstituted from her finger nail clippings, I'm not saying no. It's just that how many times can the same character wake up to the same situation over and over again and win, and then go back to sleep and then have the same thing happen in the next movie. ((Starburst #170 "Sigourney Weaver: Three Times a Lady" interview Part 3)
- How Ripley was brought back
a) GEDIMAN: How did we get you? Blood samples from Fiori 16. On ice. (Alien Resurrection script)b) CALL: Christie, she's not human. Wren cloned her because she was carrying an alien in her. (Alien Resurrection script)
Wednesday, March 19, 1997
a.) Joss Whedon who wrote the script for Buffy The Vampire Slayer and produced the series by that name wrote the script for Alien Resurrection. He introduced a new alien entity into the story called "The Newborn".People who have heard about his work might wonder what personal themes he has brought into the film and assume that he somehow integrated the idea of vampires into the script. The newborn turns out to be an albino alien creature that drains the blood from its victims.
However the vampiric quality of this entity was soon written out of the story when they couldn't afford to create a newborn as he had imagined it. At present no artwork depicting Joss's vision of the newborn is know to the public.
- The description of the entity in the script is as follows
"An alien, to be sure, but nothing we've seen so far, its forelegs arch
out of its back like spiders legs, its back legs set on enormous
haunches, thick and powerful.
Its head is long, eyeless, like the others, but along its white expanse
red veins, coming out of the skin and running like thick black hairs to
the back.
It has retracted pincers at the side of head that come out when its
tongue does.
Its much bigger the the others, nearly the size of the queen herself.
And it's bone white." It's method of killing involves draining the blood as shown here when it kills a soldier
"pincers SWING out and pin either side of his head.. His eyes go wide as: Its tongue SHOOTS into his throat. Stays there, and we watch it drain the blood from his body. We can see it, see its stomach swell, red tinged, as his body goes"
Monday, March 10, 1997
Wednesday, February 19, 1997
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| Matthieu Kassovitz |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet: Mais, à Hollywood, les scénarios sont envoyés à cent mille personnes à la fois. . Matthieu Kassovitz a reçu lui aussi celui Alien 4 (Positif Janvier 1998, no 443) Google Translation:
But in Hollywood, the scenarios are sent to one hundred thousand people at a time. Matthieu Kassovitz has also received the Alien 4
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Sunday, May 5, 1996
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| Tim Burgard's character studies of the giant spider bearing biomechanic features ( printed in Scifi Now #80, p62) |
The executive producer Jon Peter's solution was to put something resembling a human face on the creature which despite how much Tim Burgard disapproved he went along with it. Soon his ideas developed into a creature with a head like Giger's Alien but with large mandibles and then also versions near humanoid faces.
(Tim Burgard's art can be found at www.timburgardart.com)
- Tim Burgard: I worked with a duo of in house special effects producers who had previously worked on Space Jam. For research I visited Rick Baker's studio to see this enormous praying mantis alien he did for the hell of it. I had not more than three meetings with Jon, one of which Smith was part of , but barely sad anything. That meeting where my alien spider design was described by Peters as looking like "something he had for lunch." His solution was th put something resembling a human face on it, which I did despite how wrong I thought he was. After all, what's more alien than a human face? (Scifi Now #80, p61)
- Tim Burgard: The first design I submitted (with Kevin Smith at the meeting) was commented on by Jon Peters (the producer) as "looking like something I ate at lunch". Eww! So I did a version with a more human looking head, which to me isn't as scary, but I wasn't paying for it. (www.comicbookmovie.com)
- Tim Burgard:This scene is the climax and is meant to be scary - I was thinking Alien via giant spider. (Scifi Now #80, p61)
In the illustration below, the creature's underbelly is patterned like the wall of the derelict ship opens with the opening's patterns almost reminiscent of the derelict interior walls, as it opens up to unleash multitudes of little spider like creatures
Tuesday, October 13, 1992
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| Aliens comic book cover by Chris Halls |
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| This was given to Jack Hughes personally from Chris Cunningham/Halls when he was workingon Alien 3 as the concept artist and sculptor of the Alien. The head of the creature bears the same sort of sinuous details evident on the Aliens comic book cover above (source www.comicartfans.com/) |
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| Alien drawn by Chris Halls for Alastair at the U.K.C.A.C. 93 (source: somethingfortheweakened.co.uk) |
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