retrogarde wrote:
Hey Jonsey,
after reading this the whole way through I am dying to know if Ron Cobb did write it, and I'm very curious how it compares to the character bios Ridley prepared for the actors in Alien.
Damn I can't wait to read your finished report!
We know that Cobb was responsible for on screen data in other films and as IRRC he did the wake up screen on Sulaco so there is not room for to many others in the production. Besides it must be some one in the higher top of the production to get the names like producers, Cameron movies, the university's, and Giger into it. Cobb was also the only one in Scotts Alien who contemplated the world as this is one of his favorite subjects when inventing Scifi according to himself. He was also behind the Bug Stompers in Aliens. So playing with the huge amount of numbers, numericals, as we see both in the Wake up Screen with Marine ID's and on interior set we can only assume that its him. The detail of story could be Cameron's but I feel that he would not spend that much time on this being busy with the production, especially not the gibberish with the numbers.
The actual Report will show up here as I have dedicated it to the forum, but then I have made comments about putting it here the last 5 years on now, so who knows. After the Blue ray and the new alien book (and some other stuff) there is a complete re-haul of 80-100 A4 pages (illustrations included) that takes lots of spare time and dedication that I don't have any longer. Problem is to try to get all the notes and a massive list of sources together. It has been down for some 10 months now so I figured why not upload some of the research material used so you can have some fun yourself. Especially since it was up on issue here.
Many thanks for your comments. btw. It always feels good to be able to present some canon fuel for our ever thirsty imagination of the Aliens universe.
/ Jonsey