the talk continues, even Grantland gets in on it...a long convo about all the Alien movies, lots of interesting background on the various directors and writers that I was unfamiliar with:
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...lien-franchise
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WITZKE: The way this movie came together is interesting — Dan O'Bannon was coming off working on the destined-to-fail Alejandro Jodorowsky version of Dune, where he was head of the art and design department. He and Ron Shusett write the script together because they want to do a movie with the same team Jodorowsky had put together for Dune, so Moebius, Syd Mead, Chris Foss, Ron Cobb, and H.R. Giger are all in the mix as the ideas for the script are being developed. Walter Hill and David Giler buy it, maybe do a massive rewrite — pretty much everyone says they added the Ash-attacks-Ripley/android-bukkake scene. So by the time Ridley Scott comes into the situation it's already been developed by this team of stylists with strong sensibilities. You've got the Euro-comics visuals from the designers, this amazing Freudian/biomechanical creature design from Giger and built by Carlo Rambaldi, O'Bannon and Shusett bringing in hokey '50s sci-fi tradition, Hill's trademark no-bullshit leanness, and then Scott comes in with this lush commercial-trained style.
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