about the online very early Alien script

Okay, I've finally took the plunge last night trying to isolate a piece
of information that I saw in the early Alien script that there is on
line, by Dan O'Bannon and Ron Shusett (before Hill and Giler interfered
with it) and suddenly realised that whatever I thought I had read there
was no longer there, then I checked with the version that is shown the
Alien Director's cut DVD and lo and behold they are not the same
script!

I thought that when I checked last some months ago that the one on the
DVD came with the sketches and the starmap that is on the one online, I
even remember clearly examining the starmap on the DVD version, but it
isn't there at all. It's like I've just stepped out of a parallel
universe.

One is a relatively close rewrite of the other. So I don't know what to
say about the one online, but it is still an official one, but whether
it is the one that Shusett and O'Bannon handed over as a script is
another thing entirely, and if the one online is their original script
still, whether that version was written before or after the one in the
DVD, although I assume after.


Dom

wmmvrrvrrmm said:

> actually, I am not sure how long it's been online, maybe a couple of
> years or three. I remember mentioning to this site when it first came
> online, and maybe i will do a search for that post. But it came from
> one particular site and then naturally went everywhere afterwards. But
> it has nothing to do with the Complete Illustrated Screenplay book that
> came out , but the illustrated aspect of it was only interesting if you
> like the way it was illustrated with a few much seen before photos from
> the movie, and there were no concept or storyboard illustrations in it.
> That book actually contains a version of the script that was pieced
> together to represent the final film as much as possible, and showed
> some pieces of the script that were cut out.

Oh, well, there goes that theory! :-)

The book itself sound pretty though. I definately need to
find it at some point.

> I loved the map showing the general layout of man made borders of the
> galaxy.

Yeah. All of the sketches are interesting, just to see what
they had in mind back then. The pyramid is very cool.

Have a great day!

Ahmed