Alien: Making the Movie

leading from

Alien

and

Ridley Scott 

 

Sets and models

 

See: Nostromo

See: The Creature 

See: The Egg silo

See: The Derelict

See: The Planetoid  

See: The Space Jockey

See: Painting of the planetary system

See: Alien's studio environments  

Filming of Scenes

 

See: Ridley blowing his top

See: The laser placenta

See: Kane gets face hugged

See: Face Hugger in The Infirmary

See: Outside the Medical Bay

See: The Chest Burster Scene

See: Brett enters the treasure room

See  Brett's death in the Claw room

See: The Unraveling of Ash

See: Incineration of Ash's head 

See: Startled cat on seat

See: The Death of Parker  

See: Switcharounds in Lambert's death scene

See: Alien vs Yaphet Kotto

See: Trying to override the detonation procedure

See: Ladder to the Nest

See: Human to Spore stage

See: Alternate Endings

See: One more surprise ending 

See: The Creature In The Wall

See: Sex and the Alien

Post Production

 

See: Previews across America

Further Development of Themes and Ideas

 

See: Industrial Conglomerates And Their Ships 

See:  Implied future timeline 

See: Gift Shops Around The Galaxy

See: What the Nostromo crew knew

See:  Industrial Paranoia

See: The robot head speaks

See: The Tomita Planets

See: The Idea Of The Alien As A Fawn

See:  Sex in space

Props and Costumes

See:  Brett's Nostromo jacket

See:  Brett's cargo pants 

See: Prototype jacket for Dallas

See: Dallas' space suit boots

See: Kane's Space Suit 

See: Ash's Nostromo flight suit

See:  Costume sketches by John Mollo

See: Nostromo emergency suit

See: Key to mother

See: Portable air lock box

See: Nostromo shuttle emergency suit 

See:  Space Jockey Plaster Maquette (placed here for now)

See: The chestburster prop known as "Little Rascal"?

See: Hero "ramming" Chestburster with articulating jaw and pneumatic "whiplash" tail

 

Planning Alien

See:  Ridleygrams: scene 124 : Early visualisation for Brett's Death. a

See:  Ridleygrams: scene 124 : Early visualisation for Brett's Death. b

See: Ridleygrams: scene 148.a Extra scene. Hunting the alien