In the late 80s, Ridley Scott and HR Giger could have collaborated on their first film since Alien.
Ryan looks at the unrealised project…
Without director Alejando Jodorowsky, its likely that the 1979 sci-fi classicAlienwould have looked very different.
[Gigers] paintings had a profound effect on me, OBannon later said.
And so I ended up writing a script about a Giger monster.
In a claustrophobic, messy corner of Shepperton Studios, Giger worked tirelessly on his designs and sculptures.
Hed overseen the construction of an otherworldly derelict spacecraft with an eerily beautiful, asymmetrical design.
Hed created the ribbed interior and its long-dead pilot, nicknamed the Space Jockey.
For me, the artist wrote in his bookGigers Film Design,there is nothing greater than this.
Roland Emmerich was set to direct, with Sylvester Stallone and Kim Basinger attached as its stars.
To date, nothing more has come to light.
Gigers brush withThe Trainleft an indelible impression, meanwhile.
They had not planned money for it in the budget, but they promised to consider it.
I was so fascinated that I started with train ideas right away.
Mancuso said, Be careful, but I told him I will do this train anyway.
Ridley Scott and HR Giger would meet again briefly during the production ofPrometheusin 2012.
Giger is 74 now, and rarely paints.
Giger now owns an old castle in Gruyeres, which he bought by selling some of his paintings.
But its too crazy, he said.
