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Memory – The Origins Of Alien – New Alien Documentary On The Way

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Screen Daily just shared an exclusive scoop that there’s a new Alien documentary on the way to celebrate the upcoming 40th anniversary of Alien next year. The new documentary, Memory – The Origins Of Alien, is apparently being shopped around at Toronto International Film Festival for worldwide distributors.

“Memory is, full-on, a mythological deep dive into one of the films that influenced me to become a filmmaker, and a long-overdue tribute to its creator and writer Dan O’Bannon,” said Philippe. “After the success of 78/52, we have pushed the envelope structurally, sonically, and visually, to deliver our most daring and original film-on-film to date; and I am thrilled to partner with Indie Sales to let it burst out onto the screen in 2019.”

According to the article, Memory – The Origins Of Alien will “reveal previously unseen materials from the archives of writer Dan O’Bannon and designer H.R. Giger, including story notes, drawings, designs, behind-the-scenes footage, and O’Bannon’s original 29-page Memory script from 1971.”

Memory – The Origins Of Alien - New Alien Documentary On The Way

The documentary is the work of director Alexandre O. Philippe and producer Exhibit A Pictures who previously worked together on the Psycho documentary 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene.

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  2. The Old One
    Posted
    Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Jan 09, 2019, 08:54:14 PM
    Looking more and more interesting...

    I wonder how it will be distributed? I see it will be shown at the Sundance film festival this month, but will it get a wide cinematic release?
    Will it be included with the Alien 4k release or sold separately on DVD/BD or digital?


    Possibly sold separately digitally.
    But I can't imagine it being sold separately physically,
    probably it will be sold alongside the Alien 4K Blu-Ray.
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  6. Ingwar
    Posted
    QuoteDirector Alexandre O. Philippe established himself as one of our foremost pop-culture documentarians with 2010's The People vs. George Lucas, 2014's Doc of the Dead, and 2017's 78/52 (the latter of which breaks down the famous shower scene from Psycho). Now Philippe has turned his attention to Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi/horror classic Alien with Memory: The Origins of Alien, which will premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.

    "This is actually a very different film [from 78/52]," Philippe tells EW. "People who expect the 78/52 treatment applied to the chestburster [scene] are in for a real surprise. Memory is the origin story of Alien, but it really is a full-on mythological take on the film. It's an exploration of the power of cinema, the power of myths. It's a very unique look at the original Alien film.

    "Obviously, Ridley Scott is a huge part of that," the Philippe continues, "but it weighs very heavily on [screenwriter] Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger [the artist who designed the look of the titular creature]. We were very fortunate to be able to work with Diane O'Bannon, who is Dan's widow, and who is one of our executive producers. She opened Dan's archive for the very first time, so there's a lot of stuff that fans of the film have probably heard about but have never seen. That includes the original version of the script, that is actually called Memory, that dates back to 1971. Then we worked very closely with the estate of H.R. Giger, and they gave us full access to their archives as well. What they've provided is remarkable."

    Interviewees featured in Memory include Alien cast members Tom Skerritt and Veronica Cartwright and set decorator Roger Christian — plus, Philippe says, "a few surprises along the way." Meanwhile, the film's poster boasts an early piece of Alien art from the late Giger.

    "The egg that you see in the poster is the very first painting that H.R. Giger did for Dan O'Bannon," says Philippe. "It felt like a really nice and appropriate nod to Dan, and also to Giger and their early collaboration on the film."

    https://ew.com/movies/2019/01/09/alien-documentary-memory-poster-sundance/

    https://i2.wp.com/bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/memory-origins-of-alien.png?w=574&ssl=1

    https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3540845/poster-art-documentary-memory-origins-alien-features-h-r-giger-painting/
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  17. oduodu
    Posted
    Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Sep 10, 2018, 06:43:24 PM
    Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 10, 2018, 07:26:47 AM
    I'm wondering about the extent of the unseen or unknown material.

    I doubt there would be much.

    From an interview you conducted with CdL several years ago:

    QuoteWith Alien for instance. There's precious few minutes of behind-the-scenes footage from Alien that was shot back in '78 and every time Fox comes to me and asks can we do something new, you know, when it was on the Quadrilogy and later on the Anthology. Can we do something new? I always think, wow, shame I don't have a time machine and I can't go back in time to 1978 and document the hell out of Alien. We've pretty much used all the available footage. I know there's more footage out there we don't have access to but we've pretty much everything we could.

    Might be a new drawing or two and that O'Bannon Memory script.

    Was that from a podcast or just an interview?
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  19. Prez
    Posted
    It's going to show the mythical box alien footage  ;D

    Seriously though I'm looking forward to this. Nice that maybe focus will centre on O'Bannon who sometimes I feel is not given the limelight he deserves in all of this. Not saying O'Bannon isn't recognised rather most conversations about Alien centre around Ridley or Giger.
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  21. 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯
    Posted
    Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 10, 2018, 07:26:47 AM
    I'm wondering about the extent of the unseen or unknown material.

    I doubt there would be much.

    From an interview you conducted with CdL several years ago:

    QuoteWith Alien for instance. There's precious few minutes of behind-the-scenes footage from Alien that was shot back in '78 and every time Fox comes to me and asks can we do something new, you know, when it was on the Quadrilogy and later on the Anthology. Can we do something new? I always think, wow, shame I don't have a time machine and I can't go back in time to 1978 and document the hell out of Alien. We've pretty much used all the available footage. I know there's more footage out there we don't have access to but we've pretty much everything we could.

    Might be a new drawing or two and that O'Bannon Memory script.
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  22. TheSailingRabbit
    Posted
    That drawing makes me appreciate the final version of the chestburster. I don't care if it has arms/nubs/whatever, that drawing is ten times scarier and insanely derpy-looking.

    Scary and derpy don't go good together.
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  26. Ingwar
    Posted
    QuoteMemory – The Origins Of Alien shot in 4K resolution in Los Angeles, Switzerland, Greece, Italy, London, and Toronto, and is being lined up for an early 2019 release to mark the 40th anniversary of the release of Alien.

    Cannot wait to see this. Love movie documentaries.
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  29. The Old One
    Posted
    The lidless eye on HR Giger's original Facehugger design I quite liked, but prefer the version we got.

    No sunglasses on my Aliens thank you.
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