StarBeast — Alien³, the Beginning

Alien³ underwent a long, articulated creation process — which saw several scriptwriters elaborating their own screenplays, only to be replaced — one after the other. Going from William Gibson to David Twohy, the film only began to develop to the next step with Vincent Ward and John Fasano’s script. It was based on that story that… Read More StarBeast — Alien³, the Beginning

03/04/201504/12/2017 the monster philologist6 Comments

Special: Why was the Pilot fired from ‘The Thing’?

As Kate Lloyd enters the ancient spaceship — in the climax of Matthijs van Heijningen’s The Thing — she discovers a luminous, shapeshifting tower. Hologram pieces continuously assemble and disassemble, moving geometrically. It is here that she is attacked by the assimilated Sander, who has taken the form of a distorted creature. The final cut… Read More Special: Why was the Pilot fired from ‘The Thing’?

03/03/201310/04/2019 the monster philologist25 Comments