In 2019, Ridley Scott’s seminal horror/sci-fi Alien will turn 40-years-old. In advance of this impressive milestone, author J.W. Rinzler has assembled an impressive tome: The Making of Alien. It promises to be an unprecedented retrospective, one fans of horror history won’t want to miss. Published by Titan Books, The Making of Alien is now available for pre-order, HERE.

Synopsis:

In 1979 a movie legend was born, as Twentieth Century-Fox and director Ridley Scott unleashed Alien and gave audiences around the world the scare of their lives. To celebrate the movie’s fortieth anniversary, author J.W. Rinzler (The Making of Star Wars) tells the whole fascinating story of how Alien evolved from a simple idea in the mind of writer Dan O’Bannon into one of the most memorable sci-fi horror thrillers of all time.

With interviews with Ridley Scott and other key members of the original production crew, and featuring many never-before-seen photographs and artworks from the archives, The Making of Alien is the definitive work on this masterpiece of popular cinema.

If it’s been a while since you’ve experienced Ridley Scott’s Alien, stroll down Memory Lane with the synopsis and trailer below.

Synopsis:

In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship. An organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to one of the crew, causing him to fall into a coma.

Alien stars Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Yaphet Kotto, and Tom Skerritt.

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