Ridley Scott's Alien: The lesson of science fiction

Rating: 10/10 (4 February 2014)

First, let's explain the origin of the movie. Dan O'Bannon Wrote a draft of a script titled "Memory" around 1973-74. In 1975 he went to Paris for six months to work on an adaptation of Dune by Alejandro Jodorowsky. When he came back to the USA without any money after the failure of the "Dune" project, O'Bannon's life was deeply affected by this failure and the only thing he thought at this moment was to write a script. So he continued the "Memory" script and recalled it "Star Beast". This title was fast abandoned and replace by "Alien". The script was accepted by the 20th Century Fox, they chose Ridley Scott to direct the movie and some people of the "Dune" team, like H.R. Giger and Jean "Moebius" Giraud joined Scott on the project. Giger and Giraud made all of the beautiful designs of the movie, especially the monster ! The following is part of the history... The designs, the ambiance, the characters, all is amazing in this movie ! Alien is definitely a great movie and one of my most favorite movies of all time !