This is going to be stuck in my head all night, I know it.
The Good Omens audiobook is incredible anyway but also for the fact that I finally know how to pronounce everyone’s names
Terry & Neil writing Good Omens
Terry: ok so we need names for our two main characters
Neil: Azirksmdkfmdmfkfj and Crawl
Terry:
Terry: perfect
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“So what I want to know is, where did all the fish come from?” asked the sergeant.
“I told you. They fell from the sky. One minute I’m driving along at sixty, next second, whap! a twelve-pound salmon smashes through the windscreen. So I pulls the wheel over, and I skidded on that,” he pointed to the remains of a hammerhead shark under the lorry, “and ran into that.” That was a thirty-foot-high heap of fish, of different shapes and sizes.
“Have you been drinking, sir?” asked the sergeant, less than hopefully.
“Course I haven’t been drinking, you great wazzock. You can see the fish, can’t you?”
On the top of the pile a rather large octopus waved a languid tentacle at them. The sergeant resisted the temptation to wave back.
“I figured, ‘If I can’t make them laugh, maybe I can make them scream.’ The rest is history.” - Dan O’Bannon on why he wrote Alien
Happy Alien Day and 40th Anniversary to the original Alien movie. With the anniversary and the release of the six short films commemorating the milestone (x), I wanted to do an extensive gifset of the movie scenes that really kicked off the Alien franchise.
Dan O’Bannon wrote and starred in the science fiction comedy movie Dark Star. And there was a big substory in which his character had to battle the ship’s pet. Given that this was a low budget film, the alien was nothing more than a beach ball with claws. And after Alien came out, O’Bannon commented,
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