Don't get me wrong, I like to see how a script develops into a final product. And how ideas can evolve and change. But using them as sources for a product? Or as a position to base an opinion on a text from? It's using the 1974 draft of Star Wars as official source material.
Yeah well this is what I mean about approaching fiction in a different way. If somebody made a Batman RPG and took an idea common to an early draft of the 1989 film which is also found in the comics, I'd be fine with it. Or how the DCAU's story with Mr. Freeze and his wife is my default take on him, despite it not being from the comics.
Oddly enough, the egg thing was in the Alan Dean Foster novelisation. Which I'd internalised to the point where I thought it was in the film. And was mildly surprised that its was not in the original cut.
It's the rare franchise that does have one visionary in charge. Which is what makes the MCU so unique and successful. It seems that more studios would do the same thing.
From the novelisation, the acid was actually a layer between an inner and outer skin. Ash theorised that it was a defense mechanism. I'm assuming they changed that for the movie quite late in development.
Not really. It only appears in a few comic continuities and some of the games, where it is either a mutagen or narcotic. It's in a novel that ties in with the second film in some ways written back in 2014 called "River of Pain".
With Kubrick I always get the sense that there’s a hidden subtext to everything, a communication he’s sending that people are barely receiving. I don’t know if all of it is intentional, or some of it is him pouring his subconscious into the film.
I backed the T2000v4 Kickstarter and liked the system presented in the .pdfs so much that I'm already well into running Living Steel using it (4 sessions is "well in" isnt it?). I also picked up the Alien box set on a whim at my FLGS and, while I haven't run that, I really liked the cinematic vs campaign rules and the layout they used.
I think that the default setting for Campaign mode takes place in the existing movie canon, which means that the events of Alien^3 take place (they mention losing contact with the prison planet). Your campaign could follow the comic book timeline easily if you prefer that though. (Mine would, but it's still on my "to do" list)
I had it where the theories about the destruction of Hadley's Hope was an urban legend, some thinking it was 1. bio weapon gone awry, 2. competitors nuking bioweapons lab and others believing 3. it really has to do with WY taking control of colonies.
So basically the post-Alien 3 canon of the book.
I was never a big fan of horror/slasher movies as a kid so I avoided them even as an adult. I’ve never seen any of the Aliens, none of the Nightmares, none of the Friday movies, just part of one Halloween movie, none of the Poltergeists, I’ve seen about ten minutes of the Exorcist. Etc etc. Basically if there’s a (cult) classic horror movie you named, there’s a 99% chance I haven’t seen it.
You weren’t going to convince 12 year old me of that. The 48 year old me agrees with you. I’d probably watch it if it were on TV but it’s not on my must-see list.
Oh man, it should be. At least Alien and Aliens Special Edition.
