The obvious (and I hope successful) attempt to rationalize two methods was necessary once the whole queen alien biology was put forth in Aliens. Why did you decide to reconcile the two methods in the book?Īlan Dean Foster – Insightful and necessary question. But things often change during production, between the time the manuscript is approved for production and the film’s final cut.Ĭorporal Hicks – In the Alien 3 novelization you referenced back to the egg-morphing scene deleted from Alien. How difficult was it trying to write such a novel when you didn’t know how it would end or what might happen to the characters?Īlan Dean Foster – Actually, I did know. He was forced to remove it.Ĭorporal Hicks – The production of Alien 3 was notoriously difficult with pages of the script being turned in on the day of shooting. Following the screenplay exactly ‘would make a better book’, as I recall the wording.Īlan Dean Foster has included a way for Hicks and Newt to survive the start of Alien 3 but not participate. The producers forced Warner and I to remove all of it, and more. I also invented a way to rationalize Newt’s not dying but also not participating in the story. My initial version included such things as histories and motivations for many of the convicts why they had been sentenced to such a world, etc. If you can’t write plot and character, try to dazzle ’em with smoke and mirrors. Shaving Ripley’s head…one more visual excuse for scriptorial ineptness. It also destroys Ripley’s motivation for wanting to stay alive. And the killing of the little girl, Newt, was as big an obscenity as anything I’ve encountered in modern film. For example, two characters trying to find still functioning batteries from a pile of same…as if D-cells will still be power sources three hundred years from now. Would you care to explain just what problems you faced while writing the Alien3 novel?Īlan Dean Foster – So many things did not make sense, from character motivation to the science. So was I.Ĭorporal Hicks – The third novel, like the film itself, had quite a bit trouble coming into making. Obviously, both Warner and Fox were pleased with the first book. Not in real life….Ĭorporal Hicks – How did you come to write the second novelization? Was it just due to working on the previous novelization?Īlan Dean Foster – I suspect so, yes. And of course, younger readers never encounter such…such…offensive words. Having marines uttering childish inanities, for goodness sake! Anyone buying the book would know from the film’s previews what they were in for. I thought it was an insult to James Cameron’s screenplay. Why was the language removed?Īlan Dean Foster – You would have to ask Warner books. Very rarely does the publisher.Ĭorporal Hicks – One of the major differences between the novelization of Aliens and the film itself was the lack of profanities in the actual novel. I accepted.Ĭorporal Hicks – When during the films’ production did you write the novels? During production, or after?Īlan Dean Foster – All three books were written while the films were still in production and shooting was in progress.Īlan Dean Foster with a wild Mayotte brown lemur, M’bouzi Island, Comoros.Ĭorporal Hicks – Do the novelizations get edited later on? For dialogue changes made during shooting of the film or does it just stay based on the script?Īlan Dean Foster – There’s rarely any time to edit because the book has to come out just before or at the same time as the film is released. Warner Books, who had purchased the rights, contacted me with the request. I mostly write Sci-fi: Both original novels and novelizations of films.Ĭorporal Hicks – For those who don’t know, what is your involvement in the Alien franchise?Īlan Dean Foster – I wrote the novelizations of the first three films.Ĭorporal Hicks – How did you actually come to write the first novelization?Īlan Dean Foster – I had gained something of a reputation for doing book versions of films. Straight off the mark, tell us a little about yourself.Īlan Dean Foster – My name is Alan Dean Foster, I was born in New York. It’s always a pleasure to interview authors such as yourself. AD Foster wrote the novelizations of the first three Alien movies and I had the chance to talk to him about them.Ĭorporal Hicks – Mr Foster, thanks for this interview. Along with the name Steve Perry, Alan Dean Foster is one the better known authors of Alien novels.
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