Back in June an AvPGalaxy forum member discovered a new book coming out: Alien Vault: The Definitive Story of the Making of the Film.
“Alien Vault reveals the details behind the making of the groundbreaking 1979 science-fiction horror film, one of the cult classics of the genre. This licensed, behind-the-scenes guide examines the creation of the movie via director Ridley Scott’s hand-drawn storyboards, concept sketches, script pages, spaceship blueprints, never-before-seen production photos, and rare collectible memorabilia.“
It’s being written by Ian Nathan, a well known journalist for Empire. It is scheduled for publication on the 2nd of September. However, Ian Nathan was at the London Film & Comic Con early July with some early copies of the book and Andrew Clark was lucky enough to get a copy. Check out some of the pictures he took of the book.
Alien Woman from all reports is one of them books that reads way too much into things. For a better study of the films try On Film by Stephen Mulhall.
The Alien Quartet is ill-informed rubbish to be avoided.
I went to Amazon looking for what's out there for Alien today...didn't find much. Paul Scanlon's The Book of Alien is available from private sellers but the book is described as having very little text which doesn't sit well with me. There is also a book called Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley which might be interesting. Other than those, I couldn't find much. Maybe all the choices are out-of-print and/or unavailable?
I just hope that most of the cast and crew were, in one way or another, participants in the information in this book. I was really annoyed that Yaphet Kotto was nowhere to be seen in the interviews for the Quadrilogy Box Set.
Also, I hate reading stuff like that off the screen.
i saw that on disc 5 or 6 of the alien anthology. it enhanced even the whole "ridleygrams"
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So for me, this book is most a must-buy. Those are some seriously awesome storyboards.
I'm always wishing for the Paul Sammon version, he did write a book on the Alien saga that was never officially published though
http://forum.alienslegacy.com/viewtopic.php?p=152792#p152792
I'm in touch with the publishers but they're currently waiting for a replacement PR officer so there hasn't been any movement on that front.
I've also front paged this, finally, now the Prometheus stuff has calmed down.