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There was online speculation from fans that during Lambert's death scene, the Alien sexually as [...]
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Sir Ridley Scott stated that in casting the role of Ripley, it ultimately came down to Sigourne [...]
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Sigourney Weaver had pictured the Alien as a big yellow blob chasing the Nostromo crew when she [...]
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The reason why the interior of the alien ship looked like bones is that artist H.R. Giger wante [...]
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Ripley mentions the facehugger bleeding acid while alive, and fears what it could do when dead. [...]
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H.R. Giger's design for the Chestburster was originally based very strongly on Francis Bacon's [...]
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Peter Beale, one of the Fox executives argued with Giger over his fee, which Giger saw as insul [...]
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When Ripley is trying to establish radio contact with Earth, she says, "This is the Nostromo ou [...]
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Dallas' pursuit of the Alien down the ventilator shafts, and the intercut scenes of the rest of [...]
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This movie was originally scripted to end with Ripley escaping the Nostromo in her shuttle, and [...]
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For the Director's Cut of the movie, a deleted scene was restored where the Nostromo crew liste [...]
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20th Century Fox intended to give Walter Hill and David Giler final screenplay credits with Dan [...]
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The Alien murdering Brett was the first scene shot with the finalized Alien costume and mechani [...]
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For the Alien's appearance on the shuttle, the set was built around Bolaji Badejo, giving him a [...]
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Ash never eats. The only thing he consumes is some milky-white fluid, although he is seen reach [...]
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Yaphet Kotto (Parker) actually picked fights with Bolaji Badejo, who played the Alien, in order [...]
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It was conceptual artist Ron Cobb who came up with the idea that the Alien should bleed acid. T [...]
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Tom Skerritt and John Hurt later starred together in Contact (1997), which also includes aliens [...]
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Despite releasing a new version of the movie titled "Alien: The Director's Cut" in 2004, which [...]
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In a preview of the bonus feature menus for the "Alien Legacy" box set posted to USENET, the bi [...]
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The xenomorph is mostly silent in this version. There are four instances where it makes sound: [...]
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Several planned but un-filmed scenes were; Dallas and Parker using a craft called "The Flying B [...]
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Jon Finch was originally cast as Kane, and had reportedly filmed a few initial scenes. However, [...]
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When Ripley, Brett and Parker are looking for the creature, they come across a doorway with a r [...]
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The famous chestburster scene was parodied in Spaceballs (1987). In that scene, with Sir John H [...]
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When Sir John Hurt was being fitted up for his scene on the table, it was a long and complicate [...]
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"My health had far more to fear from boredom than from heart failure," said Brendan Gill of 197 [...]
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The Alien franchise was produced by Brandywine Productions. The Brandywine river is found in J. [...]
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The engines of the Narcissus coming to life was created by having water pour out of showers wit [...]
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Many of the non-English versions of the title translate as something similar to "Alien: The Eig [...]
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The production designers, in an attempt to cut costs while still remaining creative, constructe [...]
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When the script was originally optioned, Robert Altman was first choice to direct with Sir Ridl [...]
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Sir Ridley Scott and Jerry Goldsmith were at odds with each other on the usage of the original [...]
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As of March 15, 2021, the date of Yaphet Kotto's death, there are only three living cast mates: [...]
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To simulate the thrust of engines on the Nostromo, Sir Ridley Scott had crew members shake and [...]
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The chestbursting scene was considered the second scariest movie moment of all time on Bravo's [...]
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The process of preparing to make this movie ended up having a major impact on another violent, [...]
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The Xenomorph has four minutes of screentime, and doesn't make its first appearance until about [...]
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Some of the sets for the Nostromo were barely tall enough for the 6'4" Yaphet Kotto. Throughout [...]
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The dead facehugger that Ash autopsies was made using fresh shellfish, four oysters, and a shee [...]
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The Facehugger seen moving while still in the egg is Ridley Scott's gloved hands flicking about [...]
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Veronica Cartwright (Lambert) and Sigourney Weaver (Ripley) had both read for the part of Riple [...]
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An early draft of the script had a male Ripley, making this one of at least three movies where [...]
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Sir Ridley Scott was so bored while waiting for the budget to be determined on this movie that [...]
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The chestbursting scene was NOT filmed in one take (despite the myth). The scene was filmed twi [...]
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After the crew awakens from hypersleep, the navigator Lambert announces that the ship is "just [...]
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Three aliens were made: a model, a suit for seven foot tall Bolaji Badejo, and another suit for [...]
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Originally, the plan for the Alien's transparent head was for it to be filled with living maggo [...]
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Sir Ridley Scott originally conceived flying mice robots that, while the crew were in hyperslee [...]
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Nostromo's identification number is 180924609.
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The original Giger Chestburster design - the plucked chicken beast was to have been built three [...]
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By passing away on 15th March 2021, Yaphet Kotto became the fifth Alien actor to die.
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Copywriter Barbara Gips came up with the famed tagline: "In space, no one can hear you scream." [...]
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The original script by Dan O'Bannon went by the title "Memory". It was then changed to "Star Be [...]
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In the wide shots of the Space Jockey prop, Sir Ridley Scott used his two sons to make the prop [...]
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For the scene in which the facehugger attacks, the egg was upside down above the camera, and th [...]
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The teaser trailer which uses stills from the movie was narrated by Percy Rodrigues.
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Much of the dialogue was developed through improvisation.
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The horseshoe-shaped alien craft became known by the nickname "The Big Croissant" among the cas [...]
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"Would I go back for my dogs? Absolutely," said Ridley Scott answering anyone who might questio [...]
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Originally, there was no subplot with the Company betraying the crew. When David Giler and Walt [...]
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While walking towards the derelict ship, the storm around them obscured their vision, so Lamber [...]
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During one take where Sigourney Weaver is asking Harry Dean Stanton why he always says "Right" [...]
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At the start of production, Sir Ridley Scott had to contend with nine producers being on-set at [...]
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In March 2019, the North Bergen NJ High School drama club performed a stage version of the movi [...]
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Twentieth Century Fox doubled the budget from $4.2 million to $8.4 million on the strength of s [...]
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The alien's habit of laying eggs in the chest (which later burst out) was inspired by spider wa [...]
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As of 2021, the cast members have all died in the same order as the human characters in the mov [...]
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When the movie was broadcast in Israel, its title was changed to "The Eighth Passenger" in Hebr [...]
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For Parker's death, a fiberglass cast of Yaphet Kotto's head was made, and then filled with pig [...]
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The Xenomorph and the facehugger only appear on-screen for around four minutes. Director Sir Ri [...]
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The Facehugger was planned to be painted green, but Dan O'Bannon, seeing the unpainted Facehugg [...]
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As a child, Veronica Cartwright had appeared in Gli uccelli (1963), opposite Doodles Weaver, wh [...]
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Four of the actors have appeared in a film in the same year that another actor played that same [...]
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While discussing their working conditions, the Nostromo crew complains that their food tastes t [...]
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The Space Jockey's body was painted with Sepia glaze, and then coated with frayed rubber latex. [...]
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According to Sir John Hurt in the DVD documentary, he was considered at the beginning of castin [...]
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The spacesuits worn by Tom Skerritt, Sir John Hurt, and Veronica Cartwright were huge, bulky it [...]
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The scene where Ash is decapitated caused an usher in London to faint.
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Harry Dean Stanton had trouble with his performance feeling he was doing an inadequate job of f [...]
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The wiring revealed when the android Ash (Sir Ian Holm) is decapitated includes several Foley c [...]
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Tommy Lee Jones was met by Walter Hill to play Dallas who had read the script twice and exclaim [...]
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The name of "the company" that the crew work for is "Weylan-Yutani" (the spelling was changed t [...]
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The facehugger was planned to be painted green, but Dan O'Bannon, seeing the unpainted facehugg [...]
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H.R. Giger was asked by a Shepperton Studios manager if he would front the cost for frames for [...]
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Alien (1979): Ripley - "Ash, can you hear me? Ash!!!" Android Ash - "Yes, I can hear you." Prom [...]
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In the chest bursting scene, Veronica Cartwright (Lambert) screams when blood splatters on her. [...]
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Much of the set of the Nostromo was made up of skeletons of old aircraft. Ridley Scott wanted t [...]
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Despite being nominated for a Grammy, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, Jerry Goldsmith's score was n [...]
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A different version of Ash explaining to the remaining crew what his mission was had much diffe [...]
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During the opening sequence, as the camera wanders around the corridors of the Nostromo, we can [...]
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One of the ways Ridley Scott created atmosphere on set and, as Ronald Shusett explains, capture [...]
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One of the characters in The Fog is named Dan Obannon; that's an in-joke reference to the write [...]
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The genesis of this movie arose out of Dan O'Bannon's dissatisfaction with his first feature, D [...]
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There is considerable debate whether Ripley's suggestion to quarantine Kane for 24 hours would [...]
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For the awakening from hypersleep segment, Veronica Cartwright and Sigourney Weaver had to wear [...]
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Three versions of the landing craft were built for the production: a twelve inch version for lo [...]
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The reason for most of the movie having hand held shots was down to the close confines of the s [...]
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In 2019, Disney acquired 21st Century Fox for $71.3 billion, thus acquiring the Alien, Predator [...]
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Sir Ridley Scott originally wanted Ripley to be fully nude in the shuttle scene to put the char [...]
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According to Ridley Scott, Dan O'Bannon's lifelong dream would be to have been able to direct A [...]
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Cinematographer Derek Van Lint found the lighting issues on the Alien, the monitors, LEDs, fluo [...]
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The scene with the Alien exploding from the stomach was a reference that came to Dan O'Bannon b [...]
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The pale blue jumpsuit that Ash wears has elastic loops on the breasts, these are to hold diffe [...]
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The room where Brett gets killed by the Xenomorph was a point of contention between Ridley Scot [...]
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When Tom Skerritt first read the screenplay for this movie, he declined to be involved, as he w [...]
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The blu-ray edition of the Alien Quadrology box set (the first four movies) has an unusual feat [...]
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The Emergency helmets behind the seats on the bridge are modified Space:1999 Moonbase Alpha hel [...]
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It's been well known how originally there was supposed to be a sex scene between Dallas and Rip [...]
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John Hurt parodied his own chestburster scene in Mel Brooks' Spaceballs, where yet again an ali [...]
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Sigourney Weaver shares the role of Queen Isabella of Spain with Rachel Ward. Weaver and Ward's [...]
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The character of Brett is mocked by the others for his yes-man tendencies. He repeatedly agrees [...]
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When Brett takes off his hat to get soaked by the falling water you can hear the Xenomorph hiss [...]
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Yaphet Kotto was sent a script, off the back of his recent success with Agente 007 - Vivi e las [...]
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Body Count: nine (including the Space Jockey, facehugger, and the Alien).
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Sir Ridley Scott was keen to take on the project as the one that he had been previously working [...]
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Adrian Biddle was the First Assistant Cameraman (Focus Puller) on this movie for director of ph [...]
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In an interview with director Ridley Scott found on the Prometheus (2012) Blu-Ray DVD, Scott co [...]
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Alison Bechdel's comic "Dykes to Watch Out For" once proposed a simple test to see if a movie t [...]
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A picture of Jonesy, the ship's cat, as a kitten is seen on a computer terminal in the Nostromo [...]
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The space jockey prop was twenty-six feet tall.
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During the self-destruct sequence, the strobing lighting creates a strange effect on the visual [...]
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Lambert had a death involving her getting sucked through a tiny hole into space in the airlock [...]
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In The Blue Planet (2001), David Attenborough said the Alien was modelled after the Phronima, a [...]
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Although Weyland-Yutani and Ash are the real villains of the film, Dallas can also be held acco [...]
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Although never stated on film, the planetoid where the Nostromo lands and finds the derelict sh [...]
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The method for blowing up the Nostromo, as described on the housing lid:DANGER EMERGENCY DESTRU [...]
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Saul Bass, the famous graphic artist designed the opening ALIEN hieroglyphic titles. He was not [...]
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During this production, only H.R. Giger and Bolaji Badejo were permitted to view the rushes wit [...]
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The first day that she shot a scene involving Jones the cat, Sigourney Weaver's skin started re [...]
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When casting the role of Ripley, Sir Ridley Scott invited several women from the production off [...]
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In the first half of the first four Alien movies, one or two characters are introduced and buil [...]
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Only acting role of Bolaji Badejo (Alien). He vanished into anonymity after this.
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Bolaji Badejo regretted that no one can recognize him as the Alien in the movie, but thinking b [...]
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As Ripley goes through the shuttle start up sequence, a brief shot of a monitor appears which d [...]
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Twentieth Century Fox almost did not allow the "space jockey", or the giant alien pilot, to be [...]
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A green monitor, visible behind Ripley while the crew discusses Kane's condition outside the ki [...]
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When she was interviewed about Sir John Hurt, following his death on January 25, 2017. Sigourne [...]
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Many producers have professional "readers" that read and summarize scripts for them. The reader [...]
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In the original script by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, the names of the characters were Sta [...]
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The large Space Jockey sculpture was designed and painted by H.R. Giger, who was disappointed h [...]
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Sigourney Weaver mentions the interest in making Alien 5 and how she would be interested in goi [...]
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Roger Christian used scrap metal and parts to create set pieces and props to save money, a tech [...]
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A crew of over two hundred workmen and technicians constructed the three principal sets: The su [...]
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Sigourney Weaver was the last actor or actress to be cast. Part of her audition was shot on the [...]
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There is no dialogue for the first six minutes.
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Unimpressed with the poor body cast mold made of Bolaji Badejo (the actor cast to play the Alie [...]
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According to Sir Ian Holm, Ash's head contained spaghetti, cheap caviar, and onion rings.
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After the first week of shooting, Dan O'Bannon asked if he could attend the viewing of the dail [...]
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Another storyboarded scene was for the crew to use an 'electronic mouse' to hunt the alien thro [...]
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When Ripley punches in the code to activate the scuttle procedure, one of the button tabs reads [...]
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In a revised draft, Ash sabotages the ships engines thus waking the crew from hyper sleep for r [...]
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Originally called Star Beast; similarly titled to Dan Obannons last project; Dark Star; and eve [...]
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Although this movie was given the "18" certificate in the U.K., and the "R16" rating in New Zea [...]
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The original Panaglide SteadiCam system was suggested for this movie, but with neither RIdley n [...]
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As of 2017, Sigourney Weaver is the only cast member in the main cast to work with Sir Ridley S [...]
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This is the only movie in the Alien franchise that does not contain a variation of the Alien Qu [...]
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Ash's blood is coloured water. Milk was not used, as it would have spoiled quickly under the ho [...]
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One of the first major fantasy/sci-fi movies to feature an African American character as one of [...]
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Roger Dicken, who designed and operated the facehugger and the chestburster, had originally wan [...]
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According to producer, Gordon Carroll, Yaphet Kotto (Parker) and Badejo (Alien) would argue on [...]
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There is some debate as to whether Ian Holm broke the pattern of actors dying in the same order [...]
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During production, an attempt was made to make the alien character transparent, or at least tra [...]
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According to myth, the name for the company "Weylan-Yutani" (the spelling was changed to "Weyla [...]
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According to Ronald Shusett, part of Ridley Scott's pitch for directing the film was he wanted [...]
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Dan O'Bannon requested that Sir Ridley Scott and producer Walter Hill, both of whom had little [...]
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The hole to the egg chamber was originally planned to have an organic membrane covering it that [...]
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H.R. Giger met with monster maker Roger Dicken. Giger was warned he was a prickly character by [...]
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The cat red herring and Brett's death were storyboarded to take place at the same moment. The c [...]
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The screech of the newborn alien was voiced by animal impersonator Percy Edwards. He was person [...]
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Before filming the scene where Ash shoves a rolled up magazine into Ripley's mouth, Sir Ridley [...]
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Harry Dean Stanton's first words to Sir Ridley Scott during his audition were "I don't like sci [...]
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When Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett wrote the screenplay, they did not set the action in a spe [...]
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Ash and Dallas originally attempted to remove the facehugger from Kane inside the Autodoc using [...]
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Sir Ridley Scott cites three movies as the shaping influences on his movie: Star Wars: Episode [...]
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Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger were heavily inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft in their conce [...]
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In the Director's Cut during the scene where Brett is looking for Jonesy, he enters a room with [...]
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Ridley would always use Gigers Necronomicon book to explain the kind of designs he wanted to Gi [...]
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A simple egg was used for the lobby poster.
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Sigourney Weaver later appeared in another film about space travel, Galaxy Quest (1999). That f [...]
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Originally when Brett was killed the alien was still meant to be in a smaller immature form.
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Dan O'Bannon's original draft title was "Star Beast", but he was never happy with this. It was [...]
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The creature is never filmed directly facing the camera due to the humanoid features of its fac [...]
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The producers of Il mostro dell'astronave (1958) considered suing for plagiarism, but didn't.
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The embryonic movements of the facehugger, prior to bursting out of its egg, were created by Si [...]
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One hundred thirty alien eggs were made for the egg chamber inside the downed spacecraft.
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Originally, only six eggs were to be present in the egg silo under the derelict ship, but Ridle [...]
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The inside of the alien eggs, as seen by Kane, was composed of real organic material. Sir Ridle [...]
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Included among the American Film Institute's 2005 list of 250 movies nominated for AFI's 100 Ye [...]
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Fiona Latto who worked as Bray Studio manager's secretary said when Ridley ran out of money the [...]
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Sigorney Weaver said "Aliens makes Alien look like a cucumber sandwich" in a recent interview. [...]
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A lawsuit by A.E. van Vogt, claiming plagiarism of his 1939 story "Discord in Scarlet" (which h [...]
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The screentest that bagged Sigourney Weaver the role of Ripley was her speech from her final sc [...]
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Giger was appalled at the failed translation of his ideas in England, and stayed only to keep t [...]
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The dead fossilized alien is commonly referred to as the "Space Jockey". It was a term used by [...]
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According to a quote from Veronica Cartwright in a i magazine, when the Alien's tail wrapped ar [...]
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Sir Ridley Scott did all of the handheld camerawork himself.
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A closer look at the alien eggs in the scene right before the facehugger reveals that slime on [...]
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This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.
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One of the working titles was "They Bite".
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Sir Ridley Scott made sure that Bolaji Badejo did not take tea or lunch breaks with the rest of [...]
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Brett's death was storyboarded by Sir Ridley Scott originally for the Alien to use its inner mo [...]
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A scene scripted, but only partially filmed, was referred to as the "Air Lock scene". It was su [...]
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To preserve the shock value of the alien's appearance, no production images of it were released [...]
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The Casio F-100 digital watch worn by Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) was reissued in 2021 as the Cas [...]
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"I figured the Space Jockey was somehow a pilot, and he's part of a military operation, if that [...]
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Special effects supervisors Brian Johnson and Nick Allder (who ended up winning Oscars for thei [...]
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The scene where Ripley denies Dallas, Lambert and Kane entry into the Nostromo due to quarantin [...]
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The shot where the Xenomorph's tail goes through Lambert's legs and up her back, was actually t [...]
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Sir Ridley Scott's 2003 Director's Cut largely came about when over one hundred boxes of footag [...]
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*The English comedic actor David Jason was Ridley Scott's preference for the role of Brett. Jas [...]
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Walter Hill and David Giler's most significant contribution to the script was to make Ash an an [...]
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The character of Ash, and the character of Bishop in Aliens (1986), have the two-letter sequenc [...]
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Director Sir Ridley Scott originally wanted to use animatronics (remote-operated puppets) to po [...]
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Potential directors who either were considered by the studio or wanted to direct included Rober [...]
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Some of the Nostromo's corridors were created from portions of scrapped bomber aircraft, and a [...]
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The first R-rated movie to receive a tie-in series of toys marketed towards children.
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The creature has no specific name; it was called an alien and an organism in the first film. It [...]
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Dan O'Bannon was on a pay or play deal for heading special effects; he would get paid whether h [...]
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Sir Ridley Scott's original cut was a lot bloodier, but because of the negative reactions of te [...]
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While he was working on the visual effects for this movie, Brian Johnson was simultaneously wor [...]
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According to Sir Ridley Scott in the DVD commentary, he had envisioned a moment in the ending s [...]
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Originally to be directed by Walter Hill, but he pulled out and gave the job to Sir Ridley Scot [...]
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The scene where the Alien enters the room and approaches Lambert was trimmed down and re-shot. [...]
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The murky point-of-view footage from the Nostromo's crew's helmet visors when they first exit t [...]
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The vast majority of this movie was filmed using a handheld camera. Art director Roger Christia [...]
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The front (face) part of the alien costume's head is made from a cast of a real human skull.
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The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.
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Sir Ridley Scott's plan for Kane entering the egg chamber, originally involved him entering thr [...]
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Included amongst the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the four hundred movies nominated f [...]
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Dan O'Bannon's idea for the movie came from his experiences on two other projects. He had worke [...]
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The movie's Hungarian title translates back into English as "The eighth passenger is the Death" [...]
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The vapor released from the top of the spacesuit helmets (presumably exhausted air from the bre [...]
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The writing partnership between Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett came about when Shusett approac [...]
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Among some of the ingredients of the alien costume are Plasticine and Rolls-Royce engine parts. [...]
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Dan O'Bannon was hypercritical of any changes made to his script and, to be fair, he defended s [...]
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Carlo Rambaldi's original alien face is now on display at the Smithsonian.
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After the airlock sequence, the crew were meant to be moving through the ship in their space su [...]
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Extra scenes filmed but not included, due to pacing problems: The crew listens to the eerie sig [...]
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Bolaji Badejo worked approximately four months on this movie.
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Director Sir Ridley Scott and writers Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett wanted H.R. Giger to desi [...]
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John Hurt recalled how he and Veronica Cartwright were nearly poisoned while filming the exteri [...]
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Jon Finch was originally cast as Kane, and came down with illness during the first day of filmi [...]
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Lambert's off-screen death, according to the novel, was supposed to be the Alien forcing her bo [...]
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A sex scene between Dallas and Ripley was scripted, to show how casually the crew would solve l [...]
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This is the only movie in the Alien franchise in which Sigourney Weaver didn't receive top bill [...]
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Ridley Scott pointed out Ash's quick, little jog in place might be a clue to him being a robot, [...]
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H.R. Giger discovered that old designs were still being constructed by the art department, Gige [...]
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The sets of the Nostromo's three decks were each created almost entirely in one piece, with eac [...]
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The slime used on the Alien was K-Y jelly.
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The Nostromo is supposed to be eight hundred feet long, while the craft she is towing is a mile [...]
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Tons of sand, plaster, fiberglass, rock, and gravel were shipped into the studio to sculpt a de [...]
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In the scene where Ash and Dallas are examining the facehugger for a way to remove it from Kane [...]
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The room where Brett gets taken out by the Xenomorph was a point of contention between Sir Ridl [...]
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For the chestburster sequence, Sir John Hurt stuck his head, shoulders and arms through a hole [...]
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One common story is that "Weyland" and "Yutani" were the names of two of Sir Ridley Scott's nei [...]
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The lander malfunctioning and catching on fire on the Lv-426 "moon" mirrors the 1967 fire on th [...]
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Bolaji Badejo beat Peter Mayhew to the part of the alien. Mayhew had previously played a differ [...]
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As of 2021, Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, and Veronica Cartwright are the only three cast mem [...]
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As soon as Aliens came out Hasbro and other toy manufacturers started making xenomorph toys for [...]
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The original cut of this movie ran three hours and twelve minutes.
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The film was inspired by George Lucas' success with Star Wars, and Alien turned out to be a gre [...]
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Carlo Rambaldi constructed three alien heads based on H.R. Giger's designs: two mechanical mode [...]
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In a deleted scene (which can be viewed on Youtube) after Lambert, Dallas and Kane are let back [...]
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The character of Ash, and subsequently an android character being introduced into the film, is [...]
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According to Dan O'Banion, HR Gieger, and Ridley Scott through interviews for various "behind t [...]
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There was discussion to include a lesbian relationship between Ripley and Lambert.
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Here's how Pauline Kael assessed Alien's appeal in the wake of its success: "It reached out, gr [...]
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There were intentions to shoot what Weaver calls a "quasi-sex scene" with Ripley and the Xenomo [...]
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Sir Ian Holm played Frodo Baggins in the BBC Radio drama of The Lord of the Rings, and then Bil [...]
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it is never stated why a commercial towing vehicle such as the Nostromo would need a self destr [...]
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Originally, the Nostromo was painted a dull yellow, but Sir Ridley Scott was unhappy with the f [...]
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Giger is quoted in his book that when he presented artwork to Ridley he didn't like, Ridley wou [...]
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The release and success of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) has often been stated as i [...]
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Initially, H.R. Giger's derelict ship was accepted, and then rejected, in a tense meeting with [...]
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The literal translations of some of the foreign language titles include Alien: The Eighth Passe [...]
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In the unfilmed airlock scene, when the crew try and blow the creature into space it was to do [...]
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Shortly after the failed attempt to remove the facehugger from Kane, Ash is seen observing an e [...]
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Sir Ridley Scott has recently said that the Blade Runner movies share a universe with the Alien [...]
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Sir Ridley Scott originally intended for the Alien to be dying when found in the shuttle at the [...]
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The rumour that the cast, except for Sir John Hurt, did not know what would happen during the c [...]
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Signourney Weaver beat out Meryl Streep for the role of Ripley; as well as Veronica Cartwright. [...]
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Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
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According to Sir Ridley Scott, the mechanism that was used to make the alien egg open was so st [...]
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Despite being in many dangerous situations, Jones the cat survives unharmed.
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Many critics have commented on the exploitative nature of the scene where Ripley strips down to [...]
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Sir Ian Holm and Sir Ridley Scott recalled that one day, as Ridley rolled into the studio in hi [...]
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Kane, played by John Hurt was the first to wake up from hypersleep was also the first to die.
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Tom Skerritt said once met a theater owner in his home state of Texas, who complained that the [...]
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Sigourney Weaver was given the part of Ripley when she impressed Ridley Scott and the studio wi [...]
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Four different cats play Jones.
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Giger's first attempt at an egg had the top with one long slit across it, when he presented it [...]
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At the premiere of the movie, religious zealots set fire to the model of the Alien (Xenomorph), [...]
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Originally, in the end lifeboat scene, the Alien was meant to be latched onto the ceiling of th [...]
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The alien nest lair is flanked by walls that have portals with a distinct "vaginal" similaritie [...]
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According to Yaphet Kotto, Sir Ridley Scott told him to annoy Sigourney Weaver off-camera, so t [...]
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To assist the actors and actresses in preparing for their roles, Sir Ridley Scott wrote several [...]
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Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the Top 100 Most Heart-Pounding Ameri [...]
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It was rumored that when the movie premiered on the ITV network in the U.K. in 1982, a scene wa [...]
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David Cronenberg and David Lynch have both voiced their disappointment with the film, finding i [...]
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A different version of Ash explaining to the remaining crew what his mission was had much diffe [...]
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Ridley Scott points out how the gestating alien picks up attributes from its host, an idea that [...]
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It was also originally intended for the destruction of the Nostromo to be the finale of the fil [...]
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Shredded condoms were used to create tendons of the beast's ferocious jaws.
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During early development, Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett ran into a writing impasse while tryi [...]
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Ridley Scott recalls how determined he was about the casting being just right. The studio grew [...]
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The stylized artwork that Sir Ridley Scott used to create the storyboards that got Fox to doubl [...]
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H.R. Giger's initial designs for the facehugger were held by U.S. Customs, who were alarmed at [...]
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Ridley Scott began the commentary praising Alan Ladd, Jr., producer and head of 20th Century Fo [...]
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The Xenomorph in this movie is slightly different from others of his kind featured in the seque [...]
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When the crew search for the missing facehugger Scott's original plan was to have it still aliv [...]
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"If you think about it, it doesn't quite make sense," said Ridley Scott regarding cryogenic fre [...]
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The first test screening of the movie was hampered by sound issues and only got a lukewarm rece [...]
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This wasn't the first time a Cartwright had been stranded in the black. Veronica Cartwright's s [...]
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The music that Dallas listens to in the control room is "A Little Night Music (Eine Kleine Nach [...]
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Harrison Ford turned down the role of Captain Dallas.
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H.R. Giger successfully sued Twentieth Century Fox eighteen years later, over his lack of scree [...]
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The blue laser lights that were used in the alien ship's egg chamber were borrowed from The Who [...]
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The computer screen displaying Nostromo's orbit around the planet contains a hidden credit to D [...]
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Bill Paterson turned down a part.
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The decal on the door of the Nostromo is a "checkerboard square", the symbol on Purina's pet fo [...]
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The initial idea for the opening credits was to have the title made up of bits of flesh and bon [...]
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Kane waking up first from hypersleep and remarking "I feel dead" when the crew are having break [...]
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Parker and Lambert's original deaths involved the Alien killing Parker and using his body as a [...]
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Although Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett had included a clause in the script stating that all o [...]
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On the commentary, Ridley Scott gets into the differences between the theatrical and director's [...]
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Entertainment Weekly voted this as the third scariest movie of all time.
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At the end of the movie, wait for the credits, turn the volume up, and you can hear the sound o [...]
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The Alien was to be transparent, until H.R. Giger's team began to run out of time. Following a [...]
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Ridley suggested for the Alien they could strap two kids to an adult, and have them wrapped in [...]
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Originally Parker and Lambert where to be wearing oxygen breathers in their death scenes as aft [...]
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The person in charge of the Nostromo set, was a former serviceman who had an idea that every la [...]
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When this movie won in the category for "Best Effects, Visual Effects" the presenters were Farr [...]
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The initial idea for the opening credits was to have the title made up of bits of flesh and bon [...]
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Following the massive success of their Star Wars action figures, Kenner marketed an Alien toy f [...]
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The models had to be repainted every evening of the shoot because the slime used on-set removed [...]
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Many of the interior features of the Nostromo were inspired by images from airplane graveyards. [...]
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The character of Ash, and subsequently an android character being introduced into this movie, i [...]
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After the key reveal scene with Ash, the three crew members then start to walk through a corrid [...]
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Brian Tufano, BSC, was Ridley Scott's first choice for his cinematographer and had used Tufano [...]
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Originally, no movie companies wanted to make this; even Twentieth Century Fox passed on it. Th [...]
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To get Jones the cat to react fearfully to the descending Alien, a German Shepherd was placed i [...]
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Jerry Goldsmith was most aggrieved by the changes that Sir Ridley Scott and editor Terry Rawlin [...]
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The movie takes place in 2037 which is seen on the computer screen when Dallas and Ripley acces [...]
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An Alien 5 has already been written; and Ridley Scott likes it and does want to revisit the sto [...]
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Sir Ridley Scott's first exposure to early Alien (1979) drafts were sent to him by Sanford Lieb [...]
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A scene originally cut, but re-inserted for the Director's Cut, shows Lambert slapping Ripley, [...]
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Filmed over a period of fourteen weeks from July to October 1978 at Shepperton studios the U.K. [...]
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The scene where Ripley starts a vessel self-destruction procedure. Shakti means "cosmic energy" [...]
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In an interview for Métal Hurlant, Sir Ridley Scott revealed that to make the action more re [...]
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John Hurt and Ian Holm, who played Kane and Ash respectively, both starred in Lord of the Rings [...]
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Originally, the crew was suppose to emerge from hypersleep completely naked, as can be seen in [...]
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Sigourney Weaver's father, Sylvester Weaver, created Your Show of Shows, which launched the car [...]
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Kane's last words were humorous. Parker made a disgusting sexual comment to Lambert about eatin [...]
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In one of the deleted scenes, Ripley comforts Lambert and asks her if she's ever slept with Ash [...]
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Ranked number seven on the American Film Institute's list of the ten greatest films in the genr [...]
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There was discussion to include a gay relationship between Ripley and Lambert. Veronica Cartwri [...]
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Tom Skerritt had seen some of the design work being done on John Hurt, but most of the actors d [...]
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It was Sigourney Weaver's who came up with the idea of Ripley having a psychological crutch to [...]
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The original name for the spaceship was "Snark". This was later changed to "Leviathan", before [...]
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The character of Ash did not appear in Dan O'Bannon's original script.
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien. Some people have even call [...]
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Kay Lenz auditioned for the role of Ripley.
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Chris Foss did an engine design for the Nostromo which was a huge vertical pincer with a laser [...]
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Aside from being an easy-to-remember moniker for the ship's computer, another reason for the cr [...]
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Walter Hill's re-write included making two of the characters female (and adding a romantic subp [...]
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Despite many fans calling the creature asexual, or referring to the creature as "it", the Alien [...]
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Scott's original refinery design looked literally like a long upside down cathedral.
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"Nostromo" is the title of a Joseph Conrad book. The shuttlecraft is called the "Narcissus", fr [...]
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Mirrors were used to make the Nostromo's corridors look bigger.
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To stop patrons barfing in his washrooms, a theatre owner in Texas cut out the entire chest bur [...]
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"Parker (the sole black member of the crew) complains that he is underpaid in comparison to the [...]
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In order to heighten the sense of claustrophobia for the actors and actresses, director Sir Rid [...]
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Jon Finch was to play the role of Kane but fell ill early on in shooting and was replaced by Jo [...]
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Dame Helen Mirren auditioned for a role.
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The original wakening sequence started on Kane's nostril and then pulled back further and furth [...]
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One of the making-of books suggests that the alien did not outsmart Ripley by following her int [...]
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The grid-like flooring on the Nostromo was achieved using upturned milk crates, painted over.
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As was more obvious in later Alien films, the xenomorph had a slightly humanlike skull undernea [...]
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The early screenplay by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett contained the Alien, the derelict ship, [...]
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In H.R. Giger's original illustrations that inspired the look of the Alien, the creature had ey [...]
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Brett's hobby was building model clipper ships. Some can be seen behind him in his bridge stati [...]
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This film and it's sequel inspired the long running "Metroid" video game series. The Metroid franchi [...]
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In a brief bit of foreshadowing, director Scott gives us a hint of what's to come. As Dallas, Lamber [...]
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Ridley Scott credits Warren Beatty with the discovery of Sigourney Weaver. Apparently he had just se [...]
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Originally, the lighting plan for this movie was to have everything pre-lit, so they wouldn't have t [...]
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