The Alien Creature

Leading from  Alien1) Carlo Rambaldi's Alien monster concept 2) The biomechanoid that Dan O'Bannon wanted 3) Ridley Scott's Alien Monster a) Into The Necronomiconb) Looking for the Alien's Nucleus c)  The Sudanesed) Bolaji Badejo from the Gold Coaste) The Salamander Peoplef) The Chestbursterg) The Facehuggerh) The Egg i) Paintings that inspired the big Alienj) Roger Dicken's big alienk) Creating the Alienl) Human to Spore stage m) ...

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The Space Jockey

leading from :The Alien   At the beginning of the Alien production, the corpse of alien pilot was known as the alien pilot. Giger's his diaries freely refers to the crew of the Nostromo as Space Jockeys, but eventually the name The Space Jockey stuck on the alien pilot and today when people might talk about a Space Jockey in science fiction, often they're referring to the alien pilot in Alien and the original open use of the term perhaps...

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Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali (source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/)a) Giger on Dalib) Elongated skull apparitions by way of Dali c) Dune and the Gatheringd) Did Pablo Gargallo's Horse Sculptures inspire Dali's Autumnal Cannibalism? : An example on how Dali transformed objects and other people's art into his own art with his surrealist creativity...

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The Planetoid

leading from: AlienTurkish Pyramid Dwellings The Planetoid seen from afar...

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Turkish Pyramid Dwellings

leading from The Planetoid LandscapePlans for TurkeyWhen the silo and the derelict were still perceived as separate Scott had planned at stage one to film part of Turkey where people lived in large pyramid structures, but this didn't cut to budget and keep everything safe in the studio. Was he talking about the strange mounds of Cappadocia? Or perhaps the cone dwellings of Harran? Ridley: I'd seen looking at some spots for another picture that...

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Claw Room - Temple Environment

Leading from The Nostromo a) The ClawOriginally the Nostromo was to have undercarriage featuring tapered rollers, then it was changed to a landing foot and later that became a claw and Ridley wanted a huge claw room down in the bilge of the ship where the ships feet would be retracted during flight, like an anchor cable tier on an ocean linerThe Claw (images taken from the film and merged on Photoshop)b) The Temple Environment Ridley Scot...

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Cosmic Incubation

a) In Time Out magazine back in 1979, Helen MacKintoch interviewed H R Giger and wrote an article about what he said rather than typing out the interview word for word, she made a reference to H R Giger referring to "Cosmic Incubation" and there was no more mention of this phraseb) In Ancient Astronaut Special Edition Star Wars vs Alien, in the latter part of 1979, Giger mentioned that Mia named the movie The Cosmic Incubationc) However 2013 when...

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Alien Resources

Leading from  AlienInterview and Commentary transcriptions i Edited Ridley Scott commentary for the Alien 20th Anniversary DVD   ii. Raw Ridley Scott Commentary for the Alien 20th Anniversary DVD iii. Edited Alien Laserdisc Don Shay interview with Ridley Scott iv. Raw Alien Laserdisc Don Shay interview with Ridley Scott v. FollowTheNerd.com interviewed Brian Muir at Heroes...vi. Online version of the early Alien script by Dan O'Bannonvii. Alien commentary from Alien Quadrilogy DVD and Alien Anthology Blu-Rayviii. 2009 H.P....

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Transcription of Film4 Ridley Scott introduction to Alien

leading from Alien Resources http://www.film4.com/special-features/interviews/ridley-scott-introduces-alienThe alien was always regarded as a C- movie which I was the fifth choice. I had done The Duellists and erm, got a prize at Cannes, and erm I think by being being fifth choice they were definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel and er, they sent me this script, 'cause I remember by the reaction, when I said "I love the script", "you do?" any...

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Into the Minds of the Production Crew

Leading fromAlien Escher visions etched on Brian Johnson's mind The Secret Doctrine & Simon Deering's Auto Destruct Pa...

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Alien's studio environments

 leading fromAlienH R Giger's work studioH R Giger's studio moved to the Art Departm...

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Alien Studio environments: Giger's work studio, Shepperton Studios

leading fromAlien's studio environments a) At Shepperton Studios,  Giger finds himself using a room with a bare brick wall, upon Giger's work bench we see his toothy chestburster creature taking form although it would be soon abandoned, and also we see him working on his facehugger which would also be abandoned. Against the wall behind the bench we see Giger's derelict painting and also his bone landscape for the planetoid.b) The first photo...

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Alien Studio environments: The Art Department, Shepperton Studios

leading fromAlien's studio environments a) Dan O'Bannon and Ron Cobb discuss work problems Dan O'Bannon and Ron Cobb can be found talking about work related problems in a photo of the two of them sitting in the art department, Dan is smoking a cigarette.  There are numerous photos of the room to be found and very slowly they begin to add up into a room in with dimensions that can be guessed. It has various low shelves against the wall,...

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Escher's visions etched on Brian Johnson's mind

From:Into the minds of the production crewIn one interview about his work on Alien, Brian Johnson the special effects supervisor, talked about Giger's original concept for the derelict being too hard to work out how to build because it looked like an Escher optical illusion, and later he talked with Ridley about the design for the Nostromo and showed him a perspective drawing of the top of the tower, under what context Ridley needed to see it is...

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The Realism of Giler and Hill's earlier drafts

Leading from : Aliena) David Giler the producer, continued to rewrite the script numerous times over the Spring, rewriting until there was little resemblance to the original and he did not want Dan O'Bannon's involvement. Ron Shusett revealed in interviews extra information about various drafts of Alien that David Giler and Walter Hill wrote that went to extremes and during this time it was as if the alien ship, it's alien pilot's remains...

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Harboring the remains of Li Tobler

leading fromAlienLi IIa) Rumours about a skeletonThere were horrible stories being handed around where it was made know that HR Giger kept a skeleton of his late wife or fiancée who had committed suicide. In his past, his girlfriend Li Tobler fell into a state of depression and took her life with a gun. More than one person had heard the rumour about the skeleton during the Alien production but HR Giger himself was kept unaware of the matter entirely....

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Alien: The Script out of the blue

leading from Selling the scripta) Interim Ridley Scott had just done The Duellists and got it out into the public. It didn't actually do that well but people loved it. Seven prints of it were made.Ridley loved the experience of doing The Duellists with David Puttnam, and then started talking about perpetuating this place, Dordoigne in France with another piece of history and so thought it would have been a good idea to put his head on the chopping...

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