The Book of Alien: from the new Twentieth Century-Fox film

by Paul Scanlon, Michael Gross, Paul Scanlon

In 1979, a movie was released that was to capture the imagination of the world, and become a science fiction classic... Alien . This exciting book takes you right behind the scenes of Alien and talks... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930368436
• ISBN13: 9780930368432
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

PICTURE book of Alien is more like it.

Paul Scanlon and Michael Gross (Burt Gummer!?!) offer very litte text about the actual making of the movie. There is a token segment about the genesis of the script but the rest of the book is focused strictly on the visual aspects. No comments from cast, production crew, or composer Jerry Goldsmith are offered. Those (like me) expecting an in depth look at the making of a genre milestone will be a tad disappointed. Nonetheless, the countless conceptual drawings (both for used and unused concepts) from the pre-production of the motion picture and the generous amounts of stills will get the mouth of any Alien fan watering. An essential for the drawings and stills, but the text is strictly behind the scenes filler that is lacking both depth and insight.

the book of alien

To all the film buffs, as you good people are aware this book dealt with the how and why the film,ALIEN, was filmed,i just wish that i had bought this, book in 1979 when this film was first shown.Overall a nice piece of history of horror set in space.This book is quite rare and is hard to find....please bring it back.............