Information
- BFI identifier52985
- Date1979 (Copyright)
1978-07-13 (Production)
1979-11-02 (Release) - Production countryUSA, United Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisA group of astronauts, returning from a routine voyage in a commercial spacecraft, encounter an alien force, which they try to combat. (Synopsis)
- Work historyHill & Giler's names were added to that of O'Bannon as co-writers of the film sometime after the film's first release.
- Genre
- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: Ridley Scott
©: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Production Company: Brandywine Productions
view all - Cast
Title
Alien (Original)
Alien: The Director's Cut (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/55AD-7242-833C-F4AA-9776-7Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
35mm Colour Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: O'Bannon, Dan; Shusett, Ronald; - SCR-1487
Script - Original story: O'Bannon, Dan; Shusett - SCR-1488
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-52985
Unfilmable small pressbook held.
view all - StillsPhotograph: digital - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-d8a
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-soh
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-sog
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-9il
Photograph: publicity - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-01g
view all - ArticlesSight and Sound v10 n5 May 2000 - DVD ReviewLiterature/Film Quarterly v26 n1 1998 - ArticleLegend n22 Winter 1996/97 - Soundtrack ReviewEmpire n63 September 1994 - Articleview all
- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes March 2019
BFI Southbank Programme Notes March 2017
BFI Southbank Programme Notes July 2017
available to view in BFI Reuben Library