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Posted by The Old One
 - Oct 14, 2019, 05:35:01 PM
Yeah, that didn't surprise me.
Posted by Mr. Clemens
 - Oct 14, 2019, 04:20:08 PM
I just read in the Making of Alien that he was instrumental in the 'egg' portions of the trailers, too.
Posted by FenGiddel
 - Oct 14, 2019, 01:14:35 PM
Thanks for this. I never knew who created the poster.
Posted by Voodoo Magic
 - Oct 10, 2019, 08:08:00 PM
Correct. If anyone owes us an apology, it's Huggsy.
Posted by The Old One
 - Oct 10, 2019, 12:40:01 AM
No apology required.
Posted by Schaefer
 - Oct 09, 2019, 07:18:43 PM
I first seen Alien around 1986-87.
I found a pic of this poster in a TV guide and instandly wanted to watch that Movie.
I asked my Father to record it for me on VHS and i needed arond 5000 trys to watch the Movie to its End because i was so frightend as a Kid.
Thanks to Mr. Gips for his iconic Art. Without it i might have never been a Alien Fan.
(Sorry for my English)
Posted by The Old One
 - Oct 09, 2019, 11:45:18 AM
Perhaps, I always wondered that myself. But it just representing an Egg I always thought myself.
Posted by RichardW
 - Oct 08, 2019, 11:12:59 PM
Always wondered who came up with that tagline. Art really does live on, and this is one of the best posters ever. You have to wonder, did they actually get a sketch or something of the egg, but see it upside down? The shape of the crack if you flip it does resemble one half of the cross-like flaps on the actual alien egg.

Something similar happened with the starship Reliant seen in Star Trek 2, where the producer saw the design upside down and said "brilliant!".

Posted by The Old One
 - Oct 07, 2019, 04:10:37 PM
Yeah, I totally agree.
Posted by Voodoo Magic
 - Oct 07, 2019, 01:15:15 PM
In the pre-internet days of newspaper movie listings and vhs rental new release shelves, poster art used to be extremely important to luring audiences.

But today, posters are practically impotent.
Posted by SiL
 - Oct 07, 2019, 10:09:33 AM
Somehow I don't think a lacklustre poster killed a 2 and a half hour sequel to a film almost nobody asked for a sequel to, that didn't do well in the first place  :P
Posted by Mr. Clemens
 - Oct 07, 2019, 10:08:00 AM
Quote from: Fiendishly Inventive on Oct 07, 2019, 08:55:43 AM
I miss poster artists, not blue and orange Photoshop committee garbage.

Part of me is still convinced that that's what killed Blade Runner 2049:


Posted by SiL
 - Oct 07, 2019, 09:37:21 AM
Today I learned the late Mr Gips outlived arguably the only person to create an equally iconic alternate poster, Jakub Erol, by about 18 months

Posted by SM
 - Oct 07, 2019, 09:09:15 AM
That poster was enough to scare me off for years.
Posted by The Old One
 - Oct 07, 2019, 08:55:43 AM
I miss poster artists, not blue and orange Photoshop committee garbage.
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