Shooting the derelict
via screened.com
The cover to issue 35 of Mediascene, from January/February 1979, with a colored version of Moebius’ concept piece for Alien.
submission from leqejza:
it is a ‘model’ they use for a spore (the videogame) fanmovie. looks really good for making with an editor.
The nearly-finished derelict ship model. Apparently they used real cow bones for the landscape, which smelled up the shop quite a bit in the summer heat
Most of you like to think of the derelict ship as a military vessel, transporting the alien eggs to infect an enemy, as part of some interplanetary war.
I, myself, preferred to think that the space jockey wasn’t transporting the eggs, but was an innocent victim, as were our heroes. I think this because the space jockey clearly had been the victim of a chest-burster, and it seems unlikely that he would have let this happen if they were his own weapon. Also, the egg chamber is way bigger than it needs to be if it were originally intended just to hold the small eggs. Also, this way of thinking makes the universe a bit bigger; it means we still don’t know where the aliens came from or who might have engineered them.
Thanks to everyone who voted!
But, from the rumors we hear about Prometheus, it seems Ridley Scott agrees with most of you guys; I think the space jockeys are gonna turn out to be not-so-friendly.
