GIGER'S SECOND LETTER TO: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FROM: H.R.GIGER December 19, 1997 However Twentieth Century Fox is maneuvering its way through the legal issues in order to keep HR Giger far away from proper credit and profit, one thing is certain: the Biomechanical style of HR Giger in any Alien sequel is obvious to everyone. No future Alien copyist or imitator will be able to hide that fact. The Alien Lifeforms, environments, the whole Alien world is created and copyrighted under the law by HR Giger. This is confirmed in the Academy Award of 1980...
Wednesday, December 10, 1997
TO: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FROM: H.R.GIGER November 13, 1997 The Alien Quartet has, from the very beginning, contained my unique and personal style. For the first film ALIEN, I was awarded an Oscar for "Best Achievement for Visual Effects". In ALIENS, a film I was not asked to work on, I still received a screen credit for "Original Alien Design". On ALIEN 3, I was cheated out of the Oscar nomination received by that film because 20th Century Fox gave me the credit, "Original Alien Design" again, instead of "Alien 3 Creature Design", as it was my...
Sunday, September 21, 1997
leading fromAlien Resurrectionand Chris Cunningham/ Hallsa) In the 1997 film Alien Resurrection, an armed soldier who was a black man aboard the Auriga goes to investigate the acid eaten hole in the floor in the cell where Dr Gediman has been pulled down through by the aliens. One he is in there, the aliens push the button to spray his with liquid nitrogen gas and his skin and flesh freezes, his arm sticks to the wall, his arm breaks in...
Tuesday, September 16, 1997
leading from Alien Resurrection a) In Jean-Pierre Jeunet's movie Alien Resurrection, after the character Ripley 8 has surgery to remove that Alien Queen and she is then placed in a cell wrapped in a shroud like garment in which the Ripley 8 character is symbolically being born. If we then think about British cinema since the 1970s, one interesting film filled with strange visual images was a movie about the film composer Gustave Mahler...
Monday, September 15, 1997
leading fromAlien ResurrectionandPaul W AndersonAfter the success of his film Mortal Kombat, Paul Anderson's desire to make a movie combining horror and SF led to discussions about directing the Alien Resurrection script but bowed out due to scheduling conflicts. He stated that he felt that the script had everything he wanted from an Alien movie, guns and lots of Aliens running around althought that might sound better for an Aliens fan, however...
Friday, September 12, 1997
Steve Wang: This is the "failed" Ripley clone. I sculpted it entirely in Waterclay with an aluminum armature. (source: www.myspace.com/stevewangfx)failed ripley clone (source: www.myspace.com/stevewangfx)failed ripley clone (source: www.myspace.com/stevewangfx)failed ripley clone (source: www.myspace.com/stevewang...
Jordu Schell working on alien qarrior maquette(source: SFX magazine #32,Dec 1997, p32 &33, (UK version))Jordu Schell working on alien qarrior maquette(source:"The Making of Alien Resurrection", p122)Jordu Schell working on alien qarrior maquette(source: http://schellstudio.com/)Alien warrior maquette (source: http://schellstudio.com)Alien warrior maquette (source: http://schellstudio.com/)Alien Warrior maquette from Alien Anthology Blu-RayAlien...
Wednesday, September 10, 1997
Leading from: Alien ResurrectionRipley lying lying on the living landscapea) Various tentacles and protuberancesThis was one of the scenes that they had to fight for in order to save it from being scrapped for budget purposes. Sigourney Weaver remembered when she first saw the set, she was amazed by this landscape of alien parts with various tentacles and protuberances, designed by Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff."What are those things?"...
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