PRODUCTION DESIGN CASE STUDY:
ALIENYEAR OF RELEASE: 1979
DIRECTOR: Ridley Scott WRITER: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett CINEMATOGRAPHER: Derek Vanlint EXEC. PRODUCER: Gordon Carroll GENRE: SCIENCE FICTION / HORROR PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Michael Seymour STORYLINE: In the distant future, the crew of the commercial spaceship, Nostromo, pick up a distress call from a distant moon. Under obligation to investigate, the Nostromo descends to the surface of the moon. Three of this ship's crew members leave to investigate the call. At the same time as they discover a hive of some unknown creature's eggs, the ship's computer deciphers the message to be a warning, not a distress call. After one of the crew members gets infected with some sort of alien organism in the egg chamber, the other members of the team make the mistake of bringing him back aboard the ship. |