BEHIND THE SCENES FACTS
Director Ridley Scott didn't show the cast members the creature that would come out of Kane, but it was rehearsed- despite other rumours
In the scene where Dallas, Lambert, and Kane were coming down from the Nostromo, It was really just kids in suits, so it could make the ship look bigger
In an early draft of the script, Ripley was supposed to be a man
A german shepard was used to get a reaction out the the cat during Brett's death scene
Yaphet Kotto(Parker) was in a Freddy Krueger movie
Alien
was made in light of
Star wars
and
Jaws
The casting for another shark movie,
Deep Blue Sea
, was made in light of
Alien
. Get audio proof from
Deep Blue Sea
's directer's commentary
here
The alien's habit of laying eggs in the stomach (which then burst out) is similar to the life-cycle of the tsetse fly.
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