An Early Draft [1] [1979]
So what does a child do when he desperately wants to experience a movie but can't, because he's underage?
Plot concept 2 (following rejection of Dan O'Bannon's first effort)
The 'Nostromos' lands on the Planet Alien!
Enter: the Face Crusher!
A preliminary story concept for ALIEN: Sight Unseen (based on a single several minutes viewing of H.R. Giger's ALIEN film design book. See the resemblance to the other rip-off of 'Man Gods from Beyond the Stars' in Star Wars age 9? How apt! Now that Ridley's making Prometheus and he's into all that Erich Van Daniken - er - stuff!
Yes, the story here differs in a couple of minor respects. They land on Planet Alien and when attacked by the face crusher exclaims, "Help! It's Alien!" A bit like my parents asking oh, is that JAWS? Is that the bit when JAWS attacks the swimmer? I remember in Monster Fun comic (soooo good) they had a character named GUMS (His bark is worse than his bite). They sort of did the same thing!
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