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The Book of Alien is the definitive companion to the classic movie, taking you right behind the scenes of the production, including interviews with legendary designer HR Giger and director Ridley Scott. Lavishly illustrated with scores of stunning stills and pieces of production art unpublished elsewhere, the book graphically demonstrates just why the movie won an Oscar for its visual effects.
The United States Colonial Marines. Ultimate trouble-shooters equipped with state-of-the-art firepower, capable of power projection across the vast expanse of deep space. They can sharpshoot a man at a thousand meters or obliterate an entire world from the safety of orbit. They reckon they are unbeatable. But on a dirtball colony planet known only as LV-426 the unthinkable happened. The Marines lost.
And they'll get a TR t-shirt to boot! Not bad, eh? All you have to do is tell me a little known fact about the aliens of Alien. You don't have to just stick to the xenomorphs as seen in Alien and/or Prometheus; feel free to open it up to the weird-ass dog-aliens and other hybrids seen in the later movies, or even the Predalien from the Alien Vs. Predators flicks. Hell, you can tell me about the xenomorph's other adventures in Hollywood, too. Need some examples?
• The small set of extendable jaws inside the xenomorph's mouth actually have a lovely singing voice.
• If a penguin is somehow implanted with an alien egg, the resulting xenomorph hybrid will actually be Danny DeVito.
• During the filming of Alien, the xenomorph borrowed $500 from Sigorney Weaver and to this day has not paid her back.
I think you get the idea. Three entries per person, the contest ends at 12:01 am EST on Monday, June 4th. Obviously, much, much thanks to Titan Books for sponsoring the contest! You guys have a great weekend, and please remember to spay your pets, demon animals, furries, and extra-terrestrial killing machines. It just makes sense on so many levels.
- Before "Aliens" the xenomorph life cycle did not include a Queen. The victims of the xenomorph would be covered in cocoon and eventually become an alien egg - hence the cut scene in "Alien" with Brett and Dallas cocooned in the landing gear.
- The alien egg originally has a vagina for an opening, instead of the "petal" version in the film.
- You can make an edible chestburster out of pork loin and bacon. They're delicious!
Xenomorphs speak and understand perfect English (with a British accent don't you know) but choose to pretend they don't just to be dicks to humans.
Sigorney Weaver initially refused to appear in Alien 3. The producers sent her a baby xenomorph to persuade her to change her mind. This quote was prevented from leaking to the press: "If I'm going to be dealing with this shit, I'm at least going to get paid for it". When Alien Resurrection came about the producers tried again to "persuade" her. She sent them a xenomorph head in return. They wisely decided this was the last movie they'd hold her to. She agreed to do the movie just to make the producers crap their pants while she was on set. The xenomorphs tried to sue but the case was thrown out as they were illegal aliens.
Xenomorphs have been bothering James Cameron for years to make another Sci Fi movie for years in attempt to break back into movies. James Cameron, annoyed by their constant pestering, made Avatar to spite them. The xenomorphs, enraged by this slight, attempted to kill Cameron who managed to fend them off with a power loader. Construction companies were reportedly pissed.
Most Alien Queens are born and raised in Xeno-Catholic households. As we all know, and have seen demonstrated in the award winning 1986 documentary "Aliens" that Xeno-Catholic households were heavily populated with offspring despite the lack of resources.
Simply, the Alien Queens do not believe in birth control/contraceptives, because their religion deems the only form of acceptable birth control is abstinence, or being born a warrior class/hive slave.
The Alien King is sometimes known to have two-to-three jobs just to support this family, and is almost never ever seen anywhere, except for his various shifts at the factory, or the local gas station.
Men in Black called in the Queen to get her opinion in the original bug villian. She declined, so we got Vincent D'Onofrio in an 'Edgar suit'.
Along Queen Victoria and Elizabeth, the Xenomorph Queen is the only other monarch to have celebrated a Diamond Jubilee.
Hers was less bloody and death-ridden.
Bishop was originally created to be a Mercury astronaut who invented Advil Cold medicine to sell on tv, also he was in the LAPD and hunted Belgian hobos in Louisiana
A xenomorph originally accepted Marlon Brando's Oscar for the Godfather, John Wayne killed the alien in anger, prompting Brando to come up with something really weird to top that
Orson Welles once killed and consumed an entire xenomorph in a fishstick commercial gone horribly wrong.....
Xenomorphs feed on pop tarts. Most of the deaths in the xenomorph population is due to clogged arteries (Xenomorphs like butter on their pop tarts).
Whoa...that's exactly how the Bassalopes died out!
Dang. Now I want to see Berke Breathed draw a Bassalope bursting through some dude's chest.
If a xenomorph is actually implanted with another xenomorph, the resulting "hybrid" looks identical to Shirley Temple. With acid blood.
The more you know...!
1) If you agree to kiss a Xenomorph's "inner lips", you're in for a bad surprise.2) Pouring a truckload of baking soda in the mouth of a Xenomorph Queen makes for the most devastating Science Fair experiment in the known universe.3) Xenomorph larvae are not bad: they just need a hug.
Ever notice how you don't see the inner jaw retract? It's because they have to pop it back in themselves like a set of dentures. It's kind of embarrassing... of course, no one's seen this happen because anyone around them is usually dead.
Also, eating Predator flesh makes you immortal. This is a 100 percent canon fact from "Aliens vs. Predator: Eternal", which is an awesome book.
"I'm not saying it was Aliens, because it was actually Alien 3. That movie was freaking awesome." - Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
If a hippie is implanted with an egg from a facehugger, the resulting creature's acid blood is hallucinogenic, not corrosive.
Face huggers actually prefer watermelons to faces.
The baby xenomorph Superman hocked up and spit out, in the "Superman/Aliens" comic, wasn't killed, but went on to become the second president of the moon Titan ushering in sweeping reforms including acid blood proof domes.
There was an xenomorph baby in Hicks, but it died of boredom long before it could cause trouble, because it was in Hicks.
1)When Ripley was interviewed by the Weylend-Yutani corporation at the beginning of Aliens she presented them with this jingle.
"When your working for Weylend-Yutani you can't go wrong as long as you stay the f*ck away from those zenomorphs."
Needless to say the jingle was promptly rejected.
2) The easiest way to defeat the zenomorphs is to invite them over for a nice meal then insult their bone structure and call them trollops for procreating through peoples mouths. This puts them in a foul mood making them go directly home and cry. Their tears then melt the floor under them and they fall to their death.
In Alien3, you'll recall that Ripley was implanted with a queen embryo. How did she know it was a queen? Turns out the embryos can telepathically speak to their hosts. Usually, the embryos would not shut up about all the fun they're gonna have once they grow legs, and the host, fed up with their incessant babbling, would just mumble "kill me" to whoever would listen.
This was to form the basis of a buddy cop show, where the embryo would help him solve as many cases as they could before it finally burst out. The pilot was not well received, because it took the main character over 40 minutes before he was even implanted.
Aliens have variable numbers of fingers, depending on which movie you're watching, but you'll notice that they are always in the gesture of the Vulcan salute. Turns out Aliens are huge nerds. If you'd just ask them about their comic book collection (which very well might include comics about them, nowadays), they would pause and really open up.
They also tend to be reclusive and sweat a lot.
He'll never admit it nowdays, but Ridley Scott once sat in a packed Tucson Chili's and loudly explained to whoever was on the other end of his cell phone that the whole idea of aliens with acid blood bursting out of a victim was inspired by a crazy night in a Pasadena hotel room splitting "a different kind of acid" with "my writer Dan O'Bannon" and "that crazy cunt Ian Holm". Scott recalled laughing for nine hours straight because when Holm sat on the TV and moaned while a cereal commercial was on, it looked like massive amounts of Cheerios were spurting out of his butt. Years later when Holm was asked if this was true he stated, "Oh aye, and it's just as funny if you can't find any acid. It also works at the beginning of Star Wars where that giant spaceship slowly comes out of my arse."
"Fuck The Police" was a re-worked line from a cut scene in Aliens, in-which a Xenomorph can he heard signing the line "Fuck the Marines!" after Hudson was pulled into the shaft.
N.W.A. never credited the Aliens movie for their popular hit single.
-The alien human hybrid from Alien Resurrection was actually an incredibly smart creature that knew that the Queen was an evil parasite and that's why it killed her, also that robots were prone to malfunction from Ripley's memories of the first Alien movie and tried to destroy and it actually wanted to return home, or the home it has implanted as memories on earth.
It also liked kittens and hated the vacuum of space.
This isn't funny, but interesting. On page 198 of Stephen King's book Danse Macabre, King wrote that instead of the tag line, "In Space No one can hear you scream" it should have been, "In space, it is always one minute after midnight." To this day I've always equated the fear I experienced in ALIEN to that particular horror filled minute.
1 the queen alien uses face huggers and chest busters as her own form of trying to land a mate.2 the chest buster from the first aliens later went on to do cameos in michle bay films. 3 the aliens acid blood is due to them mixing their ship fuel with scotch
When the xenomorph was young, it agreed to pose nude for artist H.R. Giger (and has regretted that decision ever since).
This is sort of awkward; it isn't really "hugging."
How can I be delicate about this... "Bursting," isn't really the right word, either.
They're actually really great guys, once you get to know them.
THREE FACTS ABOUT XENOLINGUISTICS
1. The Xenomorphs in the Alien franchise are actually a peace loving speciesbut, tragically, their equivalent of semaphore involves biting, slicing,ripping and gestational parasitic face rape.
2. Due to fact 1 (above) the entirety of Crewman Kane's first contact with theXenomorph species actually translates as follows: [facehugger stage] 'Oh hai myname is Osbalwick!' [Chestburster stage] 'Suprise! and cuddles from the peaceloving natives of Chillaxalot 5...I…Why are you all looking at me likethat?...do I have something on my face?... This is very embarrassing I mustfind a mirror to check before resuming our formal first contact. BRB LOL!'
3. In another misguided attempt at communication the Xenomorph equivalent of Morsecode involves air locking small, fluffy animals in a complicated binary-likesequence. In fact the reason that Jonsey the cat was not harmed in Alien wasbecause the Xenomorph was saving him to use as a punctuation mark in a particularlymoving limerick describing how lovely Ripley's hair was.
Times were bleak for the aliens after unwarranted aggression and the destruction of their ancestral homelands by the invading white man. They are prospering now thanks to the popularity of their discount smoke shops and Native Acheronian casinos.
The more conservative Aliens called for the boycott of the movie after learning that a very young facehugger (fresh off the egg) was involved in an intimate scene with a human and, in fact, dies during filming.
Due to their acid blood, accidents involving Xenomorphs were a disaster on set. Because of this, some of the more dangerous scenes, like Ripley's epic battle with the Queen, were performed by Sam Cassell.
During interviews, the xenomorph's family and friends all stated it was a calm well adjusted member of society. The Miami-Dade county sheriff's office attributes its uncharacteristicly violent behavior and nudity to the new LSD-like drug "bath salts".
When Newt said "they mostly come out at night, mostly", she was referring to the Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Aliens frequent clubs at night and haven't come out to the Queen yet.
After the lukewarm reception to the first AvP film, plans were scrapped for AvPvRoeVWade in which chestburster abortion becomes legalized amid a nightmarish future backdrop.
The xenomorph starred in a gay porn movie with E.T. titled the Extra-Terrestrihole, ouch gets said a lot.
The xenomorphs have a tv show called Ancient Aliens in which they discuss how an extraterrestrial race of soft skinned bipeds once visited their world and wreaked havoc before they destroyed a hive in a flash of great light and fire. Some claim there's a government conspiracy to cover up the truth but most xenomorphs dismiss this story as nothing more than superstition and myth.
Has anyone ever noticed how the Sulaco looks a LOT like an M41A pulse rifle?
Join the Colonial Marines! We fly around in giant guns!
Young Xenomorphs are often picked last for dodge ball teams on the playground because at that point, the game is over man . . . game over. Then the rest of recess is wasted while everyone argues about what they are gonna do now . . . what the fuck are they gonna do now . . .
In order to prepare for their reprisal in Alien Resurrection the Xenomorphs not only watched the other 3 alien movies she also watched every movie that Sigourney Weaver was in. Production was delayed for 3 months after they heard that Dan Akroyd (upon Weaver's request) was planning a 3rd Ghostbusters movie without Bill Murray.
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