Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)
"Before Alien, there was Starbeast. Before Starbeast, there was… Memory."
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The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger. A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and our collective unconscious.
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Ronald Shusett
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Roger Christian
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Ivor Powell
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Terry Rawlings
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Tom Skerritt
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Veronica Cartwright
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Roger Corman
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Gary Sherman
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Carmen Scheifele-Giger
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Clarke Wolfe
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Diane O'Bannon
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Adam Egypt Mortimer
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Ben Mankiewicz
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William Linn
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Henry Jenkins
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