The production of Ridley Scott's Alien sounds like a mess, from Sigourney Weaver's allergies to actors passing out from oxygen deprivation.
The Big Picture An interstellar cargo ship travels in the void of space, with a crew about to face a danger that will kill all but one of them. In 1979, Alien was the disturbing contrast to the space opera fun of Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope two years before that blasted off from a galaxy far, far away. As for Alien, there were no laser guns, no lightsabers, and no poetic words on “the force.
Release Date June 22, 1979 Director Ridley Scott Cast Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto Rating R Runtime 117 minutes Main Genre Sci-Fi ‘Alien’ Started Off Stressful and It Stayed That Way The pre-production schedule of Alien was sped up, less like the crew’s glacial stirring from hypersleep and more like Ripley’s scramble during Nostromo’s self-destruct countdown.
In a featurette about the making of the film, Fear of the Unknown: Shepperton Studios, 1978, Veronica Cartwright and Tom Skerritt, who played Lambert and Dallas respectively, talked about walking around while inside those suits. Skerritt nearly passed away, and nurses were needed to administer oxygen to John Hurt, whose character didn’t have any better luck. Put inside the suit, there was no ventilation, so the actors were eventually sucking in carbon dioxide.
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