(#22) Michael Biehn's Iconic Role as Hicks Was Supposed to Be Someone Else's
Hicks was originally played by James Remar, but Michael Biehn replaced him a few days after principal photography began, due to "artistic differences" between Remar and director James Cameron. However, Remar still appears in the finished film. He's wearing the same armor Biehn would wear, and is seen from behind, so it's impossible to tell the difference between the two actors.
Biehn got the call on a Friday night asking him to take over the role of Hicks and was in London to start filming the following Monday.
(#15) They Used Simple, but Brilliant, Techniques to Make the Alien Scarier in the First Film
In the first film, the creature is never filmed directly facing the camera, due to the humanoid features of its face. Ridley Scott, determined at all costs to dispel any notion of a man in a rubber suit, filmed the beast in varying close-up angles of its ghastly profile, very rarely capturing it in its entirety.
In H.R. Giger's original illustrations, the creature had eyes. For the movie, Giger insisted that the creature have no eyes, thus giving the bleak appearance of a cold and emotionless beast.(#24) The Alien Was Always Kept Under-Wraps
To preserve the shock-value of the alien's appearance, no production images of it were released, not even to author Alan Dean Foster when he was writing the novelization of the first film.
(#2) Aliens Set the Bar for Action Movies with the Academy
Sigourney Weaver's 1987 Best Actress Oscar nomination for Aliens was the first ever for an actress playing a role in an action movie.(#21) For the First Film, John Hurt and Jon Finch Danced Around a Leading Role Due to a Complication with John Heard
According to John Hurt's DVD featurette, at the beginning of the casting process, he was considered for the role of Kane, but since he had already committed to another film that was set to take place in South Africa, Jon Finch got the role instead.
However, two separate incidents occurred that ultimately got Hurt the role. First was the fact that he was banned from South Africa because the country mistook him for actor John Heard who strongly opposed the Apartheid (Hurt pointed out that he was opposed to it too, but was lucky enough not to get blacklisted) so he was unable to do the other film. Second, Finch became seriously ill from diabetes and had to pull out. Ridley Scott immediately contacted Hurt, pitched him the script over a weekend and Hurt arrived on the set Monday morning to begin filming.
(#30) Ridley Scott's Original Idea for Alien 3 Eventually Morphed Into Prometheus
The original Alien director, Ridley Scott, turned down the chance to direct Alien 3. Scott, and later Renny Harlin both thought the third film should explore the origin of the Xenomorph species. This concept was deemed too expensive by David Giler and Walter Hill, so Scott declined to return and Harlin later quit the film. Scott ultimately got his wish with Prometheus.
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Alien is a famous American science fiction thriller series. The first movie was released in 1979. A total of 6 sequels and related movies have been released till today. This series tells that human technology has been highly developed in the future world. When exploring new planets, people do not know that unknown dangers are still lurking on other planets. This is an epoch science fiction movie series that brings the greatest monster image in the history of science fiction movies.
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