The backstory of Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi film “Alien” is well-known to its fans, and many details are in the 2019 documentary “Memory: The Origins of Alien.” Screenwriters Dan O’Bannon and Ron Shusett intended “Alien” to be a low-budget B-picture, thrown off in a few weeks with fingers crossed that it make its modest budget back.
The original title was “Star Beast” (changed to “Alien” because they liked its double-duty as a noun and adjective), inspired by the legend of gremlins that would foul up the mechanical elements of World War II bombers.O’Bannon and Shusett were on the cusp of signing a deal with…The post Fox Thought H.R.
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