{"id":10840,"date":"2010-11-25T12:05:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T17:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=10840"},"modified":"2021-02-05T16:56:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T21:56:21","slug":"are-these-alien-prequel-space-jockey-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/25\/are-these-alien-prequel-space-jockey-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"Are These ALIEN PREQUEL Space Jockey Designs? Updated: No!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know that pre-production design work is currently being done for Ridley Scott&#8217;s <strong>Alien<\/strong> prequel over at England&#8217;s Pinewood Studios. We know that Scott has hinted that the film&#8217;s plot will possible involve more of the race of the dead alien that crew members of the Nostromo discovered in the original 1979 <strong>Alien<\/strong> and nicknamed the &#8220;Space Jockey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some possible design work for those aliens have surfaced courtesy of the site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scriptflags.com\/2010\/11\/alien-prequel-concept-design-artwork.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scriptflags<\/a>. They don&#8217;t claim to authoritatively state that these drawings are indeed authentic, though if a take down notice arrives in my email box over the next 48 hours, we&#8217;ll probably have our answer.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here&#8217;s something to mull over while digesting your Thanksgiving feast today. (Click on image to enlarge.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/AlienPrequelSpaceJockey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10841\" title=\"AlienPrequelSpaceJockey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/AlienPrequelSpaceJockey-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/AlienPrequelSpaceJockey-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/AlienPrequelSpaceJockey-550x627.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/AlienPrequelSpaceJockey.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And for comparison, here&#8217;s the original from 1979.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/AlienSpaceJockey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10842\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/AlienSpaceJockey-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120402215140\/http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2010\/11\/25\/look-space-jockey-designs-for-the-alien-prequel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bleeding Cool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Updated: Turns out these are not official pre-production sketches, but the work of artist Doug Williams for his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/pleaselookatmeneillblomkamp.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/both-endsburnt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please Look At Me Neil Blomkamp<\/a>. Still, interesting work, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">We know that pre-production design work is currently being done for Ridley Scott&#8217;s Alien prequel over at England&#8217;s Pinewood Studios. We know that Scott has hinted that the film&#8217;s plot will possible involve more of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/25\/are-these-alien-prequel-space-jockey-designs\/\" title=\"Are These ALIEN PREQUEL Space Jockey Designs? Updated: No!\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[3306,416],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alien-prequel","9":"tag-ridley-scott"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10840"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=10840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}