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[Ad-Free] B-Movie to Masterpiece: How Ridley Scott Saved ALIEN | Making Film (Patreon)

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2022-06-18 21:45:53
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2022-06-22 07:56:43
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The production company that bought the Alien script had a radical idea. They wanted to take what many would see as a B-level monster movie and make it deliver on an A-level. 20th Century Fox agreed to back the movie but they were skeptical and didn’t want to risk the amount of money necessary to make a serious science fiction horror movie.

It would ultimately be a little-known director named Ridley Scott whose first movie had little success at the box office and second movie collapsed before it got started who would have to convince Fox to change their minds. But Scott would come to Fox armed with a unique vision and influences, including recycling ideas from a failed sci-fi epic…a sci-fi/fantasy take on the 12th-century romance story Tristan and Iseult.

This is the story of how Ridley Scott saved Alien…before filming even a single frame.

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ZeosPantera

Never realized how many great artists found each other to create this piece.

CinemaTyler

I know, right? It’s always cool to see well-established artists collaborate on movies!

K

Yes! Excellent storytelling and editing. You always do a great job writing a well-organized and thoughtful narrative while conveying the twists & turns and goddam EXCITEMENT of the process. I need to watch that Giger doc. I think my first exposure to Giger was through the Dead Kennedys & Danzig. Haha! According to the Giger page, sounds like he got screwed on Alien 3. I’m sure the story between Giger and the various productions could make for an entire doc in itself!

CinemaTyler

Thanks so much! I really appreciate it! I love the idea of an already established artist working on creating the monster for a movie. I think you’re totally right that a doc could be made about Giger’s relationship to the whole franchise!

Darren S. Simon (edited)

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2026-09-18 15:00 I was a teen and a friend of my parents came over one night he had only recently returned to Houston after working on Alien. believe he was a camera operator. (forget) I had endless questions, I had started to consider film as an option even if college was some time off, I was already taking photos at school. What a treat to get to hear all the details. I told friends about Dallas surviving but no one believed me, it would be years later in the DVD extras I believe that was revealed? I went on to film school at UT and worked on Chainsaw II as an intern. They shot there here in Austin. I was on the main set at the start but moved over to 2nd unit and actually did some things, albeit small, that ends up on screen. What a great video, thanks for all you do Tyler.
2022-06-25 21:36

CinemaTyler

So cool! Chainsaw II was wild! So happy you liked the video!