Alien

Alien

Dan O'Bannon's Mysteries:

a) Lovecraft, b) Ufology, c) Pyramidology

Inspired by Erich Von Daniken?
a) A man of ideas, b) Influence on the Alien team (1. Dan O'Bannon, 2. Chris Foss, 3. H.R.Giger, 4. Ridley Scott) 

H.R Giger's Egyptian Mysteries

i) The Goddess Nut, ii) The opening of the mouth ritual, iii) The Sokar funerary barge

Dan O'Bannon's Original Alien:

a) Discovery of the planetoid, b) The Space Jockey's Remains , c) The Pyramid, d) Spore to Facehugger, e) Facehugger to Adult,  f) Dead Planetoid, g) Space Jockey Story, h) Host to Spore: The Cocoon scene

Nostromo 
a) Moebius inspiration for refinery platform b) Chris Foss inspiration for Nostromo exterior

Medical inspiration for the Chestbursting

 1) Food poisoning episode, 2) Carthasis for stomach pains, 3) Debilitating stomach disease, 4) living with stomach attacks, 5) congenital stomach problem, 6) Crohn's disease

Galactic Geography:  

1) The Galactic Map of "Alien", 2) Locating the Nostromo
3) Houston replaced by the Solomons , 4) Galactic Geography In The Alien Novelisation, 5) The Middle Heavens

Carlo Rambaldi's Alien monster concept 
a) Dan O'Bannon's dissastifaction. b.) Possible depiction in first draft storyboard.

Ridley Scott's Alien Monster
a) Before Ridley Scott stepped in,  b) Into The Necronomicon, c) The Nucleus of the Alien, d) The Sudanese,

e) Bolaji Badejo from the Gold Coast, f) The Salamander People, g) Creating the Alien Lifeforms ( 1. The Chestburster, 2. The Facehugger, 3. The Egg,  4. The Big Chap)

Design origins of the Alien by way of "Swiss Made"
a)Swiss Made 2068, b) Woman with Child, c) Friedrich Kuhn II

The paintings that inspired the Alien
a). Necronom IV,  b).  Necronom V,  c) Necronom II

The Design of the Derelict

1) Chris Foss' Derelict that O'Bannon's wanted, 2) Cobb's Derelict , 3) Ridley's Criteria, 4) Moebius' work, 5) Drawing from the Necronomicon, 6) Giger's Work

Space Jockey's origins in "Swiss Family Robinson"

a) Jonathan Swift. b) Ib Melchior. c) Bava. d) Jack Kirby. e) Ron Cobb. f) Chris Foss. g) Moebius. h) Giger.

Unlocking the design of the Space Jockey

1) The Space Jockey design as it is in Alien, 2) Space Jockey Evolution via Giger's Necronomicon part 1 , 3) Evolution of Space Jockey via the Egyptian Book of the Dead, 4) Evolution of the Space Jockey via Stanley Kubrick's 2001, 
5) Likely inspiration from the Excessive Machine in Barbarella 6) Space Jockey Evolution via Giger's Necronomicon part 2.

The Tomita Planets
a. Admiration for The Tomita Planets, b. Working with Tomita's Planets

Dissecting the Derelict : an essay by myself from the late 1990s
a) The Scene. b) The Problem. c) The Theories Begin. d) Giger's Egg Silo and The Derelict Squeezed Into One. e) The Design Of The Derelict.  f) Variations On The Space Jockey. g) Egyptian Secrets of The Life Cycle Tableau.
h) To Explain More about The Jockey With Its' "Cavernous Head". i) Peering into the Silo That's Below The Jockey's Chamber. j) The Secret of No Answers. k) Necronomic Temple Environment. l) The Spores. m) The Derelict's Interior. n) A Detour To The Alien.   o)The Jockey And The Spores.  p) Mixed with the genes of the Jockey and the human. q) The end of the line, and back to a connection in the distant past

Interview and Commentary transcriptions
i Edited Ridley Scott commentary for the Alien 20th Anniversary DVD  
ii. Raw Ridley Scott Commentary for the Alien 20th Anniversary DVD 
iii. Edited Alien Laserdisc Don Shay interview with Ridley Scott
iv. Raw Alien Laserdisc Don Shay interview with Ridley Scott