Alien Evolution

00:00:19 whose publicity warned that "In space no one can hear you scream."

00:03:10 It! The Terror From Beyond Space. The Day the Earth Stood Still.

00:05:39 It jumps in his face and plants his seed in him.

00:08:01 He said Did you come to the big scene?

00:10:36 On the front cover was Dan o'Bannon/Ron Shusett, and...

00:13:03 I saw that when I was preparing to do Alien.

00:15:56 He opened up Necronomicon, and I was, you know... stunned.

00:21:18 But it was just a pipe that fed her life cycle.

00:24:39 The sets were absolutely phenomenal. The detail was unbelievable.

00:28:11 you know, built castles and things.

00:30:56 I'm saying I've given you this, now were gonna work together.

00:33:29 Not having seen the designs, of course, I pictured something much more routine -

00:35:55 Ridley Scott was going to be directing it, and this was the budget.

00:38:45 And then finally Ridley started reading the lines.

00:41:02 No Dallas.

00:43:09 (Dan) There are some microscopic worms that have these complex life cycles

00:45:57 I'd done lots of scribbling and drawing and figured that...

00:48:06 which has been carefully razor-bladed here

00:50:45 I do anyway, 'cos I'm slightly claustrophobic.

00:53:06 Instead of having a computer saying Shall we wake them up? I've got the helmets.

00:56:03 But that idea of a strange interspecies attraction -

00:58:41 It opened, I think, that weekend. I was staying in Hollywood with some friends.

01:01:22 along with Blade Runner, would underwrite all subsequent serious sci-fi

02:00:00 and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre