INT. Pyramid BROUSSARD Tunnel's gone - cave or something below me - feels like the tropics in here, air is hot and humid ... Struggling, he releases his purchase on the stone and begins to lower himself on power. He dangles free in darkness, turning slowly on the wire as the chest unit unwinds. HITS BOTTOM Broussard is standing on a dusty stone floor, surrounded by solid darkness. He flashes his...
Monday, September 24, 1979
ROBY Maybe it's time we took a look at Dell's datastick. Roby loads Broussard's datastick into one of the command consoles Pushing buttons, Roby brings up the HOLOGRAPHS taken automatically by Broussard's stick as he probed the tomb. They appear on screens around the bridge The first datastick image revcals a dusty stone floor. Roby clicks ahead , reveals stone walls carved with STRANGE HIEROGLYPHICS. ...
Friday, September 14, 1979
INTERIOR - PYRAMID - DAY Broussard resumes his downward climb. SUDDENLY, HIS FEET LOSE THEIR PURCHASE AS THE WALLS OF THE SHAFT DISAPPEAR. The tunnel has reached its end. Below him is an unfathomable, cavernous space. BROUSSARD (huffing and puffing) Tunnel's gone -- cave or something below me -- feels like the tropics in here; air is warm and humid... (consults his instruments) ... high oxygen content,...
leading fromAlien: Afterworlds of thoughta) Within the localityWorld famous writer, J G Ballard, lived in Shepperton where the famous Shepperton film studios were located, and in the Kings Head pub hotel less than a mile from where Ballard's house was, the famous Swiss Surrealist artist H R Giger lived for several months back in 1978 while he worked on the movie Alien and J G Ballard was living in his semi detached house there at the same time as...
INTERIOR - MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM Again we are watching slides in the darkened room. This time Standard, Roby, Melkonis, and Hunter are watching the sequence of photographs taken automatically by Broussard's datastick as he probed the tomb. The camera reveals the "urns." The climax of the sequence of stills comes when THE CREATURE LEAPS OUT OF THE "URN" TOWARD THE CAMERA -- and after that the camera drops to a useless angle and proceeds to show a series of meaningless blurs. Then the reel ends. ...
Wednesday, September 5, 1979
leading from Alien: Afterworlds of thoughtThe ithyphallic beast in Necronom IVa) Finding the NecronomiconOne might stop to take a look here at Dan O'Bannon's story from his time working on Dune in Paris, about how Jodorowsky had found a PhD thesis that was a study of the actual Necronomicon thought by the public to have been a product H P Lovecraft's dreams and writings and soon he discovered HR Giger who was providing images of majestic...
Transcript of the section The Beast Within from the Starbeast documentaryStarbeastDeveloping the storyDan O'Bannon (1:12) I've going to films my whole life since I was a kid, I mean, er, I love movies, intuitively I knew it was the thing that I wanted to do more than anything, but the, um, the raising I had, my background didn't suggest that was a practical thing to do for a livingRon Shusett (1:29) I was a theatre arts major in college, I wasn't a film major at UCLA, and I did love theatre, but I realised after a while after producing a...
Sunday, September 2, 1979
Ron Shusett: And here's the best part of it all, Okay. we worked on his first for months, (signing off(?)) and we couldn't get, I couldn't, er, er, by that time he was so broke he was living on my couch, and my wife was supporting both of us, two rooms, my wife and I were sleeping in the bedroom and he was sleeping on the couch, and we were just grinding our brains and saying, Dan.. "come on Ron, light up the board, I know you could help me crack this, I've seen how your mind work...., how does the alien get on board, how does he, how do...
Saturday, September 1, 1979
Mark Kermode: In 1979, Cinema goers were scared out of their skins by a stylish scifi shocker whose publicity warned that in space, no one can hear you scream, pictured somewhere between 2001 and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alien was an acid burnt antidote to the dewy eyed optimism of Close Encounters and Star Wars. This was future fantasy with razor sharp fangs, a ground breaking genre classic which gave nightmarish form to unspeakable anxieties which witness the birth of a new breed of screen heroine and which would spawn generations of shape shifting...
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