“Dead. Everything Here Is Dead” - Alien's Unfilmed Red City Scene

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So...turns out this book had a synopsis and some extra snippets of this particular draft.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/512n0c8rnJL.jpg
Which has been sat on my shelf for years and I can't remember ever reading it. Thanks to Dominic for pointing it out. So this is one that has been sitting under all our noses since 2016.

https://youtu.be/g9XrrEaZ7Y4?si=aA3bDtiwaDkh3sm-&t=288

I have this book!  Problem is I can't remember where I stored it!  I will have to find it.

[Cougerboy]

I wonder if that "spherical ship with the rings around it" that was supposed to be the derelict later inspired Anderson's gravity drive in Event Horizon?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/96/4d/a6/964da6c4a0d3902ff3383f8a95f0b141.gif
Scott also later sent a team to shoot footage for Prometheus at the Wadi Rum in Jordan, not far from Petra and of course in Covenant we eventually got a dead (albeit not red) city/necropolis.

A little off topic, but I kinda like Event Horizon, now that you mentioned it. Paul Anderson isn't a well regarded director, to put it kindly, but his work on Event Horizon, I actually enjoyed that film as a space thriller/horror, a sort of a haunted house in space. You could see a lot inspirations from Alien in that film.

It's not a masterpiece but I quite liked it. Best Anderson movie by far.

Exactly. No masterpiece, but quite watchable, and certainly better than most of Anderson's later works.

Supposedly it exist a cut where there is a ton of more gore, and that would've made it one of the most gory films ever.

Yeah I heard there was an unrated cut, supposedly it goes heavier into the hellraiser inspired gore and with more alien and haunted house movies elements.