Ridely Scott quits on new Alien project (2011)

[Growler]

Originally Posted by Dowly

ALIENS doesn't show the inside of the derelict, but if you watch ALIEN, you'll
notice that the design is spot on (considering this is a "space jockey movie").

I thought the SJ's ship in ALIEN was wicked good, and wished that more coverage of it had been done in ALIENS (even the Director's Cut). Original ALIENS story had Newt's folks going into the ship, her pop getting caught by a facehugger, and then her mom dragging them all back via their crawler to Hadley's Hope. (So, yeah, the whole plot of ALIENS is basically Newt's dad's fault.) I think I remember Cameron shooting some of that sequence, but not all of it, and it was left out of the theatrical release.

More to the point, absent the heavy atmospheric lighting that sets and final prints are likely to have, the Daleks were the first things that came to mind.