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ZetaReticuli
MemberOvomorph02/1/2012By that I mean a traditional novel based on the screenplay. A graphic novel certainly,
but that's a different discussion. I'd like an old-fashioned back-to-basics paperback,
quite thick with small print with photos from the film.
Possibly written by Alan Dean Foster? He can do mood and detail very well.
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F--- it - lets go for it!
MemberOvomorph02/1/2012yeah give us the novel before the film..and make them slightly
dissimilar to the movie - as the others were.
id love to get a read at it now as im working overseas.
it would be a good way to steer clear from all the crazy threadsters
shambs
MemberOvomorph02/1/2012It would be the right thing, plus imagine the plot before the movie would be a great experience, hype high and led directly to LV-426
ZetaReticuli
MemberOvomorph02/1/2012I'd rather it'd be a simultaneous release with the film. Having said that,
I remember reading the Alien paperback back in the summer of '79
before seeing the film, which wasn't released in the UK until October of
that year.
Reading the Chestbursting scene was shocking, but I'd heard rumours to the tune
of "it comes out a man's stomach", so I was prepared a little, although
the description in the book was more along the lines of the burster in Alien 3.
Still didn't prepare me for the impact of the film's depiction though.
DropShipDrivR
MemberOvomorph02/1/2012Yes....a novelization done by Alan Dean Foster would be most welcome to be released....YESTERDAY
Spartacus
MemberOvomorph02/1/2012agreed, I would love it, am still looking for a physical copy pf Alien by him, but I have the audio version, tough to find here in Mtl.
BH posted a member discovery of a page in that book with some startling info in the News section.
Check it out...
jbsmit3@gmail.com
MemberOvomorph02/2/2012I have read all Alien novels b4 seeing the movies. Alan Dean Foster writes them best!
I hope to read Prometheus b4 I see the movie... the "let down" will be so much lessened.
Not fair....
I expect great things from this movie. Maybe not the same as my screenplays (i wrote Alien 2 and a prequel) but from Ridley I expect only the BEST.
Alan Dean Foster can deliver that in his interpretation of the screenplay.
I am readin Sentenced to Prism right now (paperback, not Kindle). And it takes me aback.....
I wonder if anyone in this forum has watched Alien and saw him stalking Lambert and Parker as they were heading to the storage locker for coolant.
If you watch in slow-mo, as the pass the arches going towards the "landerr" to obtain coolant the center of the arch way is empty. Going to the coolant locker you can see the Alien turn his head towards them as they pass that arch way.
Just wonderring if i'm the only one who ever noticed....
Please keep me in the lop. I'm just a "hick" from Lexington, KY - US
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