Alan dean foster alien movie#
That said, I feel like I’ve seen the movie because I’ve read the novelization: written by the always on-form Alan Dean Foster, it’s like the damn thing was playing in my head.įirst of all, I think it’s important to say that this story is not a direct sequel to the Alien series. Maybe I’m just getting old or maybe it’s the fact that a visit to the cinema these days would set you back more than I would happily pay (yep, definitely getting old!). I guess I’m waiting for the DVD release, figuring it’s one I’d prefer to experience in the comfort of my own home as opposed to on the big screen.
In that sense, then, the novelization was like the director’s cut of the movie and, for me at least, often a better way to experience the story. And what I really liked about them, particularly Alien 3 by Alan Dean Foster, was how you were often given something extra, something that was absent from the movies- a cut scene here or there, some clues as to what a character might have been thinking, what motivated them to do whatever it was they did. I picked up a lot of them over the years- Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, Licence to Kill, Alien 3 etc. They used to come out before the movies were released so the novelization was like an advance screening, if you like. īack when I was a kid, I loved movie novelizations. I remember reading some of his earlier works in 1978 and 79 before my teens,the original Alien book being one of them. Alan Dean Foster 's writing style suits the science fiction horror genre very well,he keeps the book tight like the movie. A good page turner with a dark destructive heart, ,organic life meets it's chilling bloody end,maybe. Like the movie the book has a slow start, but really gets going and races to the finish. Indeed Alan Dean Foster, adds a few lines missing from the movie that, fill many of the so called plot holes of the movie, you hardly notice them but they give the reader much more insight into the crews decision making than the movie did. It also gives much more clarity to the role of the crew members of the space ship Covenant, something l felt was missing from the movie.
In this respect the book brings together the world of Prometheus,and the grey transforming liquid and links to the original Alien creature. I read this book having seen the movie and thought the book may give more insight into the Universe that Ridley Scott is creating. His published oeuvre includes more than 100 books. His novel "Cyber Way" won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so.įoster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel "Shadowkeep" was the first ever book adapation of an original computer game. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first "Star Trek" movie. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as "Star Wars", the first three "Alien" films, "Alien Nation", and "The Chronicles of Riddick". È il racconto dei fatti che precedono il nucleo originale della storia, è l'avventura che conduce esattamente al punto in cui la saga più terrificante di tutti i tempi ha avuto inizio.Īlan Dean Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. “Alien: Covenant” aggiunge un capitolo fondamentale all'universo di Alien creato da Ridley Scott. Ma, a quel punto, non resterà loro che una lotta cruenta nel disperato tentativo di salvarsi. Solo esplorando quello strano paradiso, i membri della Covenant scopriranno il suo segreto, la minaccia nascosta che lo rende un inferno. A parte la brezza, non si leva nessun rumore, nessun fruscio né verso di animale, come se tutta la fauna locale fosse migrata o in letargo. E sembra avere tutte le caratteristiche per ospitare la vita: temperatura ideale, atmosfera respirabile, forza di gravità. Quello che si apre davanti agli occhi dell'equipaggio è un paesaggio incantevole, con montagne e prati verdi, alberi e specchi d'acqua. Partita per una missione di colonizzazione planetaria, la nave spaziale Covenant giunge in un mondo remoto e sconosciuto, nell'estremità più lontana della galassia.