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Posted by elsiniestro
 - Aug 25, 2017, 12:33:08 AM
Has anybody read/translated the novel yet in full?

Being a bit of a completionist, I'm desperately trying to confirm the names of the two mechanics played by Matthew Burgess and James Embree.

I've actually contacted Embree himself, but he doesn't remember his character having a name. One of the wikis out there lists Matthew Burgesss character (the first mechanic Fifield kills) as "Ray" -- this was the name of one of the mercenaries in the original "Alien: Engineers" script so I'm intrigued by this.
Posted by Elmazalman
 - Aug 11, 2017, 01:17:20 PM
Interesting dialogue. She should have finished him off and taken her chances.

I really want to read this book. I was hoping a translation would be made available once the sequel novelisation appeared. Bummer.
Posted by Corporal Hicks
 - Aug 11, 2017, 12:38:24 PM
Posted by Kurai
 - Sep 02, 2016, 10:23:28 AM
Scott is doing the second Bladerunner, right? I wonder if he'll go along with the potential Prometheus-Bladerunner shared universe that was hinted at in the Blu-Ray?  :P

Could have our own Alien Cinematic Universe going. XD

On topic: I hope that Dark Horse does release a Prometheus and Covenant straight up comic adaption.
Posted by Engineer
 - Aug 28, 2016, 11:43:56 PM
Quote from: SM on Aug 28, 2016, 11:34:34 PM
Lead times are too long.  The novelisation has to be written, edited, printed and shipped prior to the film's release.
That's unfortunate. I enjoy novelizations. :-(
Posted by SM
 - Aug 28, 2016, 11:34:34 PM
Lead times are too long.  The novelisation has to be written, edited, printed and shipped prior to the film's release.
Posted by Engineer
 - Aug 28, 2016, 10:50:48 PM
Quote from: windebieste on Aug 28, 2016, 10:41:30 PM
Yeah.  Hang on I'll just grab my copy...

'ALIEN vs PREDATOR'TM, Marc Cerasini, Page 24:  "Nothing existed in Sector 14, unless you counted polar bears and penguins."

Brilliant!

-Windebieste.

Yea that's pretty hilarious!
And as much as I despise the avp movie(s), I have to admit, my least favorite novelization of all time is "predator." Oh man was that one BAAAAD! I don't blame the writer though, he was working off of some early version of the script which obviously changed pretty significantly. I just wish someone had told him the script changed so he could've updated the novel before publishing. Lol
Posted by windebieste
 - Aug 28, 2016, 10:41:30 PM
Yeah.  Hang on I'll just grab my copy...

'ALIEN vs PREDATOR'TM, Marc Cerasini, Page 24:  "Nothing existed in Sector 14, unless you counted polar bears and penguins."

Brilliant!

-Windebieste.

Posted by Engineer
 - Aug 28, 2016, 10:30:16 PM
The second gaff I saw was the phrase "heat sensitive sensors"

It's grammatically redundant. All he had to say was "heat sensors" which would imply that these sensors were sensitive to heat. Lmao
Posted by Mr. Clemens
 - Aug 28, 2016, 10:27:21 PM
Quote from: windebieste on Aug 28, 2016, 10:16:40 PM
Haven't read the 3rd one.  I'm not even sure I knew of it.   I don't think I'm missing much by the sound of it.

It went:

Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human (1995)
Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night (1996)
Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon (2000)

As you know, BR2 was 'okay' (despite the utterly misguided idea of having Gaff dead on page 1), but BR3 was such a drag that I never even gave the final book a chance.

And yes, Dick was positively glowing about the BR footage he saw. Paraphrasing here, but he said it was like the filmmakers had looked directly into his own mind.
Posted by Engineer
 - Aug 28, 2016, 10:25:52 PM
Well, I saw two possible gaffs, but I'm gonna go with polar bears living in Antarctica. Lmao
Posted by windebieste
 - Aug 28, 2016, 10:16:40 PM
Haven't read the 3rd one.  I'm not even sure I knew of it.   I don't think I'm missing much by the sound of it.

Well, yeah.  Either way, Dick saw early footage of the movie but unfortunately he never saw it get released due to his death.  Sadly.

Yes.  He didn't like 'ALIEN'.  Which is ironic considering O'Bannon went on to write the treatment of Dick's 'We can Remember it for you Wholesale' released as 'Total Recall'.

I wonder what Dick would have thought of that movie?  He wasn't interested in depicting his characters as larger than life heroes.  They tended to be 'the little guy' caught up in incomprehensible, shifting situations.

-Windebieste.


Quote from: Engineer on Aug 28, 2016, 10:13:36 PM
And to bring things (sorta) back full circle...

There's a novel adaptation of the first avp movie, which was based on a comic series and bares very little resemblance to that comic series... Lol

The Cerasini novelisation?  This book has my all time favourite gaff.  EVER!  It's on page 24.  See if you can find it...
Posted by Mr. Clemens
 - Aug 28, 2016, 10:14:41 PM
Quote from: windebieste on Aug 28, 2016, 09:15:12 PMK.W. Jetter went on to write the official book, 'Blade Runner 2' which was published in 1995. It was OK

I didn't mind that book *too* much, but boy, the one that came after it was a piece of piss...
Posted by Engineer
 - Aug 28, 2016, 10:13:36 PM
And to bring things (sorta) back full circle...

There's a novel adaptation of the first avp movie, which was based on a comic series and bares very little resemblance to that comic series... Lol
Posted by 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯
 - Aug 28, 2016, 09:46:30 PM
Quote from: windebieste on Aug 28, 2016, 09:15:12 PM
Unfortunately, Dick died before the movie was released.  He did see a rough cut of the movie and I believe he approved of it. 

No, he only saw an special effects reel accompanied by a bit of Vangelis music that Scott played for him. He liked that but he never saw the actual film.

As I mentioned earlier, he did however get hold of one of Hampton Fancher's earlier Blade Runner/Dangerous Days drafts which he publicly denounced saying it was basically "Philip Marlowe meets the Stepford Wives". He also went on to bash Alien, saying "a monster is a monster, a spaceship is a spaceship, and the only thing that saves this is the special effects"

Quote from: windebieste on Aug 28, 2016, 09:15:12 PM
To continue bouncing the subject around, from book to movie to book again consider this.   K.W. Jetter went on to write the official book, 'Blade Runner 2' which was published in 1995.  It was OK.  Mind you, I don't believe the upcoming movie draws any influence from it at all.

That's right, the new film is based upon an outline by original Blade Runner scriptwritter, Hampton Fancher.
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