Today marks the re-release of two long out of print Alien books. The Book of Alien was first published in 1978 and it’s sort of a behind-the-scenes art book for the original Alien movie. The Aliens Colonial Marines Technical Manual was published in 1996 and that’s the ultimate guide for the Colonial Marines as featured in James Cameron’s Aliens. I’ve done reviews for the two books which you can read by clicking the pictures below:
Titan Books are also reprinting Alien: The Illustrated Story but that’s been delayed for a few months. Meanwhile, Prometheus: The Art of the Film is scheduled for release on June 12th.
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Me, not so much. It was a treasure trove for 20 years before the advent of DVD. But pretty much everything in it has wound up in some shape or form on DVD or Blu-Ray. It's nice, to be sure - just don't expect to learn anything new.
Oh, would anyone recommend The Book of Alien? I'm actually considering getting that one, but I want to know if its any good.
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I assumed the fancy pants was dropped? (Pun intended.)
Do you have a link to the fancy edition?
Grrrrrrrrrrr
But the date on german amazon is still unchanged, we will see...
Now 'Prometheus: The Art of the Film' has been pushed back to August 7th?!?
What BS is THIS???
Why not?
Thanks, I'll definitely be picking this up now, been wanting one ever since I heard about it on this site nearly a decade ago.
I'm definitely excited about the technical manual. I was hoping that one day they would re-release it, and that day has finally come.
I have one question though, has anything been added or removed from the original?