It’s the series introduction of Ripley, face-huggers, and the xenomorph as well as the first look at the ship and species featured in the prequel installments released over 30 years later.
Creepy creatures and eclectic orchestration heighten tension in the cramped halls of the Nostromo mining vessel as the crew is picked off one by one. Stellar production design and Oscar-winning special effects flesh out the corporate-dominated world and create a functional setting for the cast to play in. RELATED: Why Watching ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Alien’ Back-to-Back Shows the Range of the ‘Alien’ Franchise and Ridley ScottĪ cabin fever-style horror film aboard a spaceship, Alien supersedes good genre films as a standard-setting technical masterpiece.
Here’s a look at the films in production and in chronological order. With sequels, prequels, sequels to prequels, and announced sequels to sequels to prequels, the Alien films can get slightly complicated. An announced and axed Alien 5 sequel by District-9 auteur Neil Blomkamp would’ve seen the franchise return to Ripley’s story, but the success of Prometheus and Alien: Covenant excited Scott enough to wrestle back control of the series. It’s thrived for more than 40 years and still has a new TV series and new co-op videogame on the way. The six mainline Alien movies in addition to the two Alien vs Predator entries have raked in a whopping $1.6 billion at the box office-not bad for a science fiction horror franchise. Sigourney Weaver’s role of Ripley, a miner aboard a corporate interstellar shipping vessel, would unlock a franchise she’d lead for nearly 20 years. Geiger’s xenomorph endured alongside the film itself against the progress of visual effects thanks to its eerie, chitinous body and excellent facial animatronics. The contemporary cinematic presentation, inspired special effects, and stellar cast made a movie in a class of its own. Despite art direction in part by Leslie Dilley, one of the art directors who worked on Star Wars just a few years before, it was the antithesis of the melodramatic space opera. Everything about the movie is iconic including the title card. Perhaps most influential of them all-in contention with Bladerunner-is his 1979 sci-fi film, Alien. Jane, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, and many, many more. In his near 60 year tenure directing cinema, he’s created classics including Bladerunner, Thelma and Louise, G.I. They’re backed into the identity of popular culture.
His style and techniques permeate genres and mediums beyond quantification. It’s hard to overstate the profound impact of Ridley Scott on modern visual media.
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