The early screenplay by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett contained the Alien, the derelict ship, the Space Jockey, but also an ancient pyramid-like structure on the planet's surface full of alien eggs (more shaped like canisters), where the crew of the Nostromo was to encounter the facehugger. The notion was that the pyramid, eggs, facehuggers, and Alien would all be indigenous to the planet, and the Aliens had decimated the original civilization. The derelict ship had landed much later on the planet, and its pilot, the Space Jockey, had become an unfortunate victim of the facehugger. The pyramid was written out by producers David Giler and Walter Hill in subsequent script versions; they didn't like the ancient civilization, so they replaced it with sophisticated government installations, weapon testing grounds and an army bunker. O'Bannon and Shusett were not amused by these alterations, since they had already enlisted Swiss artist H.R. Giger to create an alien landscape and architecture. Director Sir Ridley Scott agreed with them, and after some back-and-forth discussing, they finally settled on the original idea; the pyramid, however, was merged with the derelict ship due to time and budget issues. Scott agreed, with the idea of saving the pyramid for a sequel that would explore the origin of the creatures. The pyramid-like structure filled with eggs/canisters would later resurface in Alien vs. Predator (2004), and, as predicted, in Scott's origin story Prometheus (2012).
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