The Making Of Alien Book Review

Posted By yonghow on September 16th, 2019

The Making Of Alien is an in-depth and comprehensive book charting the complete story of how Alien was made, featuring new interviews with Ridley Scott and other production crew, and including many rarely-seen photos and illustrations from the Fox archives.

I already own several excellent books on the making of the Alien films, Alien The Archive and Aliens – The Set Photography just to name a few, but this huge hard cover volume explores plenty of material that I’m only seen for the first time, most notably the huge collection of “Ridleygrams”; detail storyboards draw by the director himself, as well as on set production photographs and a giant depository of concept art pieces by several artists like Eliot Scott, Chris Foss and Ron Cobb.

But the book isn’t simply your regular coffee-table book glossed over with just pictures and images. The small print text accompanying the visuals are cramped with detailed production stories and are more scholarly than just a casual read. It’s going to take me quite a while to finish reading the contents of the whole book properly, that’s for sure.

The Making Of Alien Book Review

The Making Of Alien is a veritable treasure trove of reading material to complement what is certainly one of the best sc-fi horror films ever made. My highest recommendations.

“The Making Of Alien″ book details :

– Dimensions – 12.2 x 0.9 x 11.1 inches
– Hard cover, 192 pages
– Full color