Following on from 2019’s adaptation of William Gibson’s second draft of Alien 3, Dark Horse has just announced (via The Hollywood Reporter) that 2020 will see them adapting another unused Alien film script. However, it’s not going to be tackling another Alien 3 (sorry folk, no visualize of Eric Red’s take), Dark Horse are turning their sights back to the very start; back to Dan O’Bannon’s Alien – formerly known as Starbeast!
The adaptation of O’Bannon’s screenplay comes courtesy of Cristiano Seixas and Guilherme Balbi and follows in the footsteps of Dark Horse’s successful 2018 series, William Gibson’s Alien 3, which adapted the original screenplay for David Fincher’s third movie in the series, restoring material excised in the final version of the script.
Seixas and Balbi’s five-issue miniseries similarly follows O’Bannon’s original version of events, heavily rewritten by Walter Hill and David Giler before production, and is described simply by the publisher as “an alternate line of events.” Among the differences? In the very first version of the story, the spaceship isn’t the Nostromo but the Snark…
Cristiano Seixas has taken up scripting duties for Dark Horse’s newest adaptation and Guilherme Balbi will be providing the visuals. Seixas has not working within the Alien universe before, but Balbi has previously worked on the Predator side where he did the pencils for A Predatory Life, the prequel comic to Predators that focused on Royce. You can see some of his work for Alien: The Original Screenplay below!
The new series is due to make it’s debut on the 22nd of April, just days before 2020’s Alien Day! I’m not going to lie, I certainly wasn’t expecting this but I’m excited none-the-less!
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Yup. There is a tree-like creature vibe, but it also reminds me of the fascinating work done by Alex Ries.
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I remember after reading my brothers' making of Alien book in the early 80s, drawing a ship at school and calling it Snark. My friends never got the reference
Also note the use of Snark for the ship.
The new Jockey look great so far.
Ya. I’m open to the series going in a hundred different directions. Pretty tired of the silly fight over people’s differing opinions on the future of the series in terms of what’s canon. The best thing about the Aliens series is the idea that you don’t know where the alien things come from or what they will lead to. Once you know these things, the magic vanishes. So take it in different directions I say. Be brave about it, and abandon the idea of Canon. That’s for kids’ films like Star Wars. As long as any story paths are internally consistent then it’s all good.
Not seen this shared yet: Issue #1 variant cover by Walt Simonson (who of course did the original Alien adaptation comic).
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Dark Horse's site won't let me share a bigger version but you can see it by going here: https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/3007-457/Alien-The-Original-Screenplay-1-Walter-Simonson-Variant-Cover#prettyPhoto
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Also, is it just me or this early Alien's design resembles this guy ?
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Agreed. Though I very much agree with Xiggz on the colours. I would have also liked him to have tried to jazz up the Uzi's like they jazzed up the Pulse Rifle. But it's all kinda small.
Thanks. But I can see it’s Tristan. I wondered when the actual piece is from?
It is a work of Tristan Jones. He wanted to make a sequel for the game Alien: Isolation in the form of a graphic novel.
Just kidding, even if it is in poor taste.
I disagree that the artwork was bland. The panels conveyed plenty of movement and the characters were quite expressive. The coloring was a bit too bright and a darker palette would’ve improved the atmosphere but Christmas wasn’t responsible for the colors.
Agreed on that one. Just a few elements brought over from Genesis would work
You should listen to the SA episode I did with Kiramidhead on those
Would i change anything about it ?
Now that i have read it a few times and love the hardcover, i have grown to love it and would not change a thing. there are a few unclear bits in there with regards to panel layouts and what not but i think that those issues actually go well with the unrefined feel of the second draft.
I find the whole package rather charming.
I've never actually read the Genesis draft. Another one to add to the list.
I think that's completely unfair. He was asked to adapt the 2nd draft, he did.
Where is this from?
I'd like for them to mainly follow Engineers, with a few of the clean ups from 01 Genesis. As long as they keep the space station over the Amsterdam office.
Then again, I wanted the Gibson Alien III comic to mix up elements of the two drafts, but they just straight adapted the second.
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IIRC he said in interview with muthur9000 something like " Hicks and Newt died. Get over with it, people "
So yeah, f*ck it, why not. I quite like that script.
I'm really looking forward to the pyramid stuff.
Here is an idea everyone.
Either Alien: Engineers or Blomkamp's Aliens 2
Adapted by Tristan Jones.
It's certainly not completely different like Alien 3 and the Gibson script.