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 The Alien Saga

1. Alien

2. Aliens

  3. Alien 3

4. Alien Resurrection

5. Aliens vs Predator 

 6. Aliens vs Predator : Requiem 

 7. Prometheus

8. Alien: Covenant

9:Alien: Romulus
  

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Other Alien blogs, forums and sites to explore:

www.thenightshirt.com (Read the essay "The Passion of the Space Jockey")

 AVPGalaxy.net (Leading fan website and discussion forum for Alien)
 Propsummit.com
TheRealCharlesLippincott.blogspot.co.uk
Dennis Lowe's website (now taken down)
Martin Bower's Model World 
Monsterlegacy.blogspot.co.uk. 
thenostromofiles.com (now taken down)
retrocosm.net 
 www.avpcentral.com
Strange Shapes 
Weyland Yutani Archives
L'AnimaDelMostro.blogspot.com
runesoup.com

30 anni di ALIENS
 
& my exploratory Alien fan art and ideas site,
 Alien Predalien Ad Infinitum
and my other site just about my own other thoughts
The Wmmvrrvrrmm blog  

Alien

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Ridley Scott 

 

Conceiving the story

Pre-Production 

Production Begins

Making the Movie

Afterthoughts

Echoes

Production Timeline

 Film released 

Resources

Aliens

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Making Aliens

The Creature Department

Costumes

 

Production Timeline 

October 1985

November 1985

Afterthoughts

Alien 3

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Making of Alien3

Scriptwriters and directors

a) First plans

b) Clive Barker asked to scriptwrite

c) William Gibson works on a script

d) Renny Harlin attempts to make Alien 3

e) Vincent Ward attempts to make Alien 3

f) David Fincher takes up the role of director

g) Haven't a clue about Bishop 2

h) Alien 3 timeline: production etc

 

 

 The Creature department
a) Gillis and Woodruff get the job

b) Gillis and Woodruff see signs of Fincher's fighting spirit

                                                

 

 

Alien Life Forms 

 

a) Giger's Alien lifeforms

a.i) Alien 3 beast version 1

a.ii) Alien 3 beast version 2

a.iii) Bambi-burster 

a.iv) Super Face-Hugger

a.v) Facehugger hidden in victims chest   

 

b) ADI's Alien Life Forms

b.i) Dog alien 

b.ii) Cocoon

b.iii) Super Face-Hugger

b.iv) Bambi Burster from an ox

b.v) Dogburster

 

 

           

Production materials 

a) Cpl. Dwayne Hicks's Dead Body 

b) A stunt Ripley

c) Pair of mummies

d) Sigourney Weaver plaster cast 'life mask' 

e) Blueprints

f) Creature props, artwork etc

f.i) Alec Gillis' concept art (Face Hugger and Dog Burster) 

f.ii) Early mockup of the Alien beast puppet

f.iii) Baby alien queen prop

f.iv) ¼ scale three-piece production casting of the Alien
f.v) Alien 3 Rod Puppet Maquette original production material
f.vi) Dogburster hero animatronic puppet original movie prop
f.vii) Dogburster Head cast original production material
f.viii) Dog Burster Paint Reference Prototype Head  

f.ix) Ox "bambi burster" head 

f.x) Dog Puppet with Dogburster Alien

fi) Alien creature reference model 

f.xii) Gino Acevedos alien painting guide

 

 

 

Costumes   

a) Ripley's (Sigourney Weaver) prison uniform
b) Morse's (Danny Webb) hooded overcoat
c) Kevin's (Phil Davis) costume
d) Eric's (Niall Buggy) costume
e) Dillon's (Charles Dutton) costume
f) William's (Clive Mantle) costume 
g) Arthur's (Deobia Oparei) costume

h) Aaron's (Ralph Brown) costume after explosion 

i) Other Prisoner Costume    

Afterthoughts

a) The end of Ripley?

b) Sigourney Weaver photographed by Helmut Newton

c) The Shadow of the Sphinx  

d) Alien Beast partly inspired by HR Giger's New York city paintings? 

e) Alien beast partly inspired by Poltergeist 2 creature designs?

f) The Beginning of the film

g) Curious similarities to Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner via Element of Crime

h) Parallels with Koji Suzuki's novel Ring

i) Theatrical cut as a portent of the next Alien director

j) Stephen King seen watching Alien 3 

k) Chris Nolan on Alien, Alien 3 and Blade Runner 

l) Peter Briggs visits ADI in Pinewood 

m) George RR Martin didn't watch Alien 3

n) Drawing for Alien 3, XLV 8/8/2000, by HR Giger references photo of Sunbathing Barbie from Barbie Journal 1987 ?

n) Carl Saganalien?  

 

Aliens Vs Predator

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Paul W Anderson

 

 

Pre-production

 
See: The Development of Peter Briggs' AvP script

 
See: Constantine Sekeris sketches for alien lifeforms

 

See: John Fasano's Pred-Alien sketch  

 

 

  Making the movie

See: Paul W. S. Anderson comes on board

 

See: Patrick Tatopoulos's concept work for alien lifeforms

 

See: Ron Shusett and Dan O'Bannon's involvement 

 

See: Various alien maquettes

 

See: Aliens as used in the film 

 

Props 

See: Grid Alien (Tom Woodruff Jr.) Creature Costume  

Afterthoughts

See: Aliens In A Puzzle Box Pyramid

See: Von Däniken concepts in Alien vs Predator

See: Aztec architecture influenced by Predators

See: Borrowed from the Alien saga 

 

See: Peter Briggs watched Paul Anderson's film

 

See: Sigourney Weaver vs Alien vs Predator 

 

See: Borrowed from Jack Kirby's The Eternals #19

 

Alien vs Predator Requiem

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1. Predalien Hybrid concepts list
2. Michael Broom's Predaliens 
3. Michael Broom's Predalien with side teeth concepts
4. Farzad Varahramyan's Predaliens 
5. Justin Murray's Predaliens 
6. Chris Ayers' Predalien
7. Green Predalien concept illustrations
8. Predalien concept art without artists' names
9. Predalien facehugging victim
10. Predalien maquette
11. The Predalien  
12. The Alien warrior
13. Dreams of an Alien King

See also The Evolution of the PredAlien

Props

1. Alien Warrior Screen Used Head with Tongue
2. Alien Warrior Head
3. Hero “Tom” Mechanical Head
4. Battle Damaged Xenomorph  
5. Alien warrior dummy that turned up on Ebay  

Album cover for Zaho De Sagazan’s “La Symphonie des éclairs” (released 2023) references Necronom IV,(work 303)( 1976?) by HR Giger?

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Necronom IV (work 303) (1976) by HR Giger

a) It seems to be unlikely there should be a connection, but it just seems a lot of people artwork gets caught up with the shapes coming out of Giger’s  paintings. 

I like the music artist and buying the album, I asked myself about this one what it could be similar to from Giger’s work and Necronom IV was an answer.

b) Necronom IV, (19760 by HR Giger?

This also led me to ask the same question about a cover of a rerelease of the album and that had a similarity to another Giger painting.

c) Comparable ares

So here we have her upper torso leaning back and her face looking downwards with arms held out in front in front of her, her left arm higher than her right.

So that makes me think about a connection even more.