SciFi_1998(GIGER)

sci-fi Invasion! The Science Fiction Magazine SUMMER 1998 EDITION Father of the Beast When Giger created The Alien over 20 years ago, he spawned the one nightmare he couldn’t control: His own By Patrick Sauriol How many people would want to take... More

sci-fi Invasion! The Science Fiction Magazine SUMMER 1998 EDITION Father of the Beast When Giger created The Alien over 20 years ago, he spawned the one nightmare he couldn’t control: His own By Patrick Sauriol How many people would want to take credit for two decades of murder, terror and mayhem? Giger, for one, is not only willing to take credit, but he’s willing to fight for it. For more than 20 years, movie audiences have been frightened by the creations of the Swiss-born painter, sculptor and visionary via the Alien movies. But for Giger, the two decades have included a bumpy relationship with Twentieth Century Fox. He says that when Sigourney Weaver and the crew of the Nostromo encountered death in 1979 in the first of four Alien films, he began a relationship with 20th Century Fox that included snubs, unfair practices and a lack of fair crediting. When he was left out of the credits of “Alien Resurrection” altogether, he decided it was the final s Less