Quote from: Jango1201 on Oct 11, 2017, 10:52:02 PMI never bought the derelict housed the massive chamber with the eggs. I always liked the theory of a facility under the ship.
Originally the egg chamber was in a separate building, belonging to aliens who once lived on the planet.
And the derelict belonged to other aliens who visited the planet and went to the building.
But it was too expensive so they merged the ideas.
The creators always said Alien is a b-movie with an a-movie budget.
Quote from: Rudiger on Oct 12, 2017, 10:59:25 AMI mean that the original space jockey is huge in relation to Dallas, Lambert and Kane, as well as David and the engineers we see in Prometheus. You can see that in the long shots and the close ups. If they don't stay faithful to that, they will have failed in my book.
It's easier to cast tall actors for Engineers, instead of using cgi to enlarge them.
It's cheaper to build sets suitable for those taller than the average human, but not giant-sized.
I'm sure if special effects were better and if money was no object, we had giant Engineers, giant ships, giant buildings,...