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...
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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
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