Dan O'Bannon's Mysteries Early Development of the Alien Script Memory surfaces Dune and the gatheringA Sofa in LAAdding The Gremlins ideaInventing the FacehuggerAcid for blood Birthing the ChestbursterNaming The TitleStopped in the str...
Friday, August 31, 1979
Thursday, August 30, 1979
leading fromThe design of the derelictderelict entrance seta) Towards the end of April, Brian Muir had been telephoned to be asked to join the production team of Alien at Shepperton Studios. He was well known for having sculpted Darth Vader's mask a few years earlier and he would assist Peter Voysey who would be responsible for building Giger's Space Jockey and the derelict ship and it's entrance. By the time he arrived, Peter Voysey was already...
leading fromAlien: Afterworlds of thoughtsketch of Old one from The Mountains of Madness (image taken from the notes with surrounding writing removed)See also HP Lovecraft's illustrations depiction of the elder things/ old ones by Wayne Barlowe based on the description from HP Lovecraft's "At The Mountains of Madness" from BARLOWE’S GUIDE TO EXTRATERRESTRIALS a) Original Giger was to create his alien spores with a single vagina...
Wednesday, August 29, 1979
leading fromNostromoThe Queen MaryFF : How did you view the Nostromo?Ridley Scott: The thing's like the bloody Queen Mary. Do you get a sense of the scale of the interior? That it's big? We couldn't build the two to three hundred foot-long corridors which it would have but it's supposed to be like one of these Japanese super-tankers. Three quarters of a mile long. The refinery behind it would be God-knows how big. I mean, well.......
Leading from H P LovecraftThe stories by H P Lovecraft seeded Dan O'Bannon with ideas when he wrote Alien which he tried to writer as something in the manner of Lovecraft and also during the 1970s, H R Giger had a fondness for Lovecraft's ideas since his friend Sergius Golowin had got him interested in his writings and the themes coming through. Lovecraft wrote many letters and also notes for his stories on such things and envelopes and also draw...
Sunday, August 26, 1979
leading fromAlien Dennis Lowe: One of the really good ideas that I learnt from Space 1999, because Brian, Brian gave me my first job in the industry basically on Space 1999, and I would be there doing spraying up galaxies, star backgrounds and that kind of stuff, and I learnt how they did the planets, basically it would be erm, (77:00) it would be a dome of er, it would be a blown perspex, blown to er er er, heated up on a vacuum former,...
leading from The Nostromo a) Prototype TowerBill Pearson remembered that they were shown Ridley's storyboards by Brian Johnson as a starting point which showed the Nostromo lander and refinery. They were very gothic in style. The first job that they had to do was a tower for the refinery from Ridley's black and white boards. Simon Deering and Bill made one prototype tower together. He tried to mimic what Ridley had drawn. They...
Thursday, August 23, 1979
Jon Sorenson: Did'nt we have a member of TANGERINE DREAM at Bray for a while? (alienexperience.com June 21, 2009, 02:34:44 PM)Dennis Lowe: That's right, Steve Jollife came to work at Bray doing a bit of wiggeting. He used to be in Tangerine Dream with Edgar Frouse. (AlienExperience.com June 21, 2009, 02:40:52 PM ») Jon Sorenson: That's right! Steve Joliffe, temporary wiggeter. He'd just come back from Germany recording with Edgar Froese! (AlienExperience.com...
Friday, August 17, 1979
leading from Alien Resources (21st August 2013. Further editing on time markers )The DVD time is in green while the bluray time is in blue. As it happens the Blu-Ray commentary is a slightly different mix of the commentary materials. Words spoken only in the DVD version are highlighted in green while words spoken only in the blu-ray version are highlighted in blue, while words common between both the DVD and the Blu-Ray version in a part of the commentary near enough each other along the time are in pink(00:00:08) Sigourney Weaver: Hi, I'm...
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