Engineers and Black Goo?

[E. Shaw]

I learned Giger worked on a Dune Attempt, and some of his designs featured in the film!

Giger actually worked on two Dune attempts. Jodorowsky and Ridley Scott's versions.

I did not know that! Imagine if Scott had directed Dune! I can only imagine his interpretation  of the Sandworms, Bene Gisseret, and The Harkonnen with Giger on board.

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯]

I learned Giger worked on a Dune Attempt, and some of his designs featured in the film!

Giger actually worked on two Dune attempts. Jodorowsky and Ridley Scott's versions.

I did not know that! Imagine if Scott had directed Dune! I can only imagine his interpretation  of the Sandworms, Bene Gisseret, and The Harkonnen with Giger on board.

Scott's Dune would also have been split into 2 films. I think Giger's job was to design the worms (as seen in the painting that Nightmare Asylum posted) as well as the Harkonnen homeworld.

[Nightmare Asylum]

I learned Giger worked on a Dune Attempt, and some of his designs featured in the film!

Giger actually worked on two Dune attempts. Jodorowsky and Ridley Scott's versions.

I did not know that! Imagine if Scott had directed Dune! I can only imagine his interpretation  of the Sandworms, Bene Gisseret, and The Harkonnen with Giger on board.

Giger also reached out to Lynch to try to get on that version of Dune after both Jodorowsky and Scott's versions fell through, but Lynch never returned his calls. If legend is to be believed (I'm not sure the original source on this), apparently it's because of a perceived slight where Lynch felt that Giger had been complicit in ripping off the Eraserhead baby for Alien's chestburster.

EDIT: A link to the article from wmmvrrvrrmm's blog, which goes over some of those details:

https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2014/05/alien-vs-eraserhead.html

[E. Shaw]

I still maintain, I don't think Giger's sandworm design is quite right for Dune, but I do think it'd be perfect as something that David cooked up...

I want to see this in an Alien film or the series! Like a giant Chestburster!

[BigDaddyJohn]

Isn't LV426 was initially thought to be the Harkonnen homeworld before Jodorowsky's Dune was dropped ?

[E. Shaw]

Isn't LV426 was initially thought to be the Harkonnen homeworld before Jodorowsky's Dune was dropped ?

That would have been a awesome tie in between the two universes, but I suppose permission from whoever handled the Dune rights at the time would be needed.

[Nightmare Asylum]

Isn't LV426 was initially thought to be the Harkonnen homeworld before Jodorowsky's Dune was dropped ?

Never heard that one before. Are you thinking of Dan O'Bannon's comment about hypothetically seeing LV-426 as a piece of the "Old Ones' homeworld" (as in, the entities from H.P. Lovecraft's works)?

[BigDaddyJohn]

Isn't LV426 was initially thought to be the Harkonnen homeworld before Jodorowsky's Dune was dropped ?

Never heard that one before. Are you thinking of Dan O'Bannon's comment about hypothetically seeing LV-426 as a piece of the "Old Ones' homeworld" (as in, the entities from H.P. Lovecraft's works)?

I heard that on a french podcast about the Alien saga, but it was some time ago, I need to re-check that.

[Nightmare Asylum]

Isn't LV426 was initially thought to be the Harkonnen homeworld before Jodorowsky's Dune was dropped ?

Never heard that one before. Are you thinking of Dan O'Bannon's comment about hypothetically seeing LV-426 as a piece of the "Old Ones' homeworld" (as in, the entities from H.P. Lovecraft's works)?

I heard that on a french podcast about the Alien saga, but it was some time ago, I need to re-check that.

Given that Giger was handling all of the Harkonnen elements in Jodorowsky's Dune and went on to handle the Alien/Space Jockey side of things in Alien, there would definitely have been overlap in that regard between his Giedi Prime and LV-426, from a production standpoint.

[Salt The Fries]

I learned Giger worked on a Dune Attempt, and some of his designs featured in the film!

Giger actually worked on two Dune attempts. Jodorowsky and Ridley Scott's versions.

I did not know that! Imagine if Scott had directed Dune! I can only imagine his interpretation  of the Sandworms, Bene Gisseret, and The Harkonnen with Giger on board.

Giger also reached out to Lynch to try to get on that version of Dune after both Jodorowsky and Scott's versions fell through, but Lynch never returned his calls. If legend is to be believed (I'm not sure the original source on this), apparently it's because of a perceived slight where Lynch felt that Giger had been complicit in ripping off the Eraserhead baby for Alien's chestburster.

EDIT: A link to the article from wmmvrrvrrmm's blog, which goes over some of those details:

https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2014/05/alien-vs-eraserhead.html

Fantastic write-up from that blog! Thanks for sharing, and it also led me to some other excellent blog notes, for example the one on the Shivers influence on Alien.

[Slutty Badger]

I'm personally thrilled that the pathogen is gonna feature in Romulus. It shows that this film respects the overarching setting and continuity.

Plus, "Prometheus strain"? That's gotta be a David connection.

[BigDaddyJohn]

I'm pretty sure David won't be mentioned in the movie.

[Slutty Badger]

I'm pretty sure David won't be mentioned in the movie.

He damn well better be!

[E. Shaw]

I'm personally thrilled that the pathogen is gonna feature in Romulus. It shows that this film respects the overarching setting and continuity.

Plus, "Prometheus strain"? That's gotta be a David connection.

The Pathogen is one of my favorite additions to the mythos.

[The Cruentus]

Would you like to see the Engineers or the Black Goo playing a role on the new Alien Romulus film? in some kind of cameo, small roll or big roll in the story?
 Personally I prefer nothing about that or anything that comes to the prequel films. I prefer that just play safe with the horror of the Xenomorph just like it was in the pre-Prometheus era

I would prefer future films/media ignore the prequels but I at least want Ridley to have the chance to conclude his trilogy. After that they should then be ignored or be given a seperate continuity.