Hoping for a novelisation of the film

yeah give us the novel before the film..and make them slightly dissimilar to the movie - as the others were. id love to get a read at it now as im working overseas. it would be a good way to steer clear from all the crazy threadsters

It would be the right thing, plus imagine the plot before the movie would be a great experience, hype high and led directly to LV-426

I'd rather it'd be a simultaneous release with the film. Having said that, I remember reading the Alien paperback back in the summer of '79 before seeing the film, which wasn't released in the UK until October of that year. Reading the Chestbursting scene was shocking, but I'd heard rumours to the tune of "it comes out a man's stomach", so I was prepared a little, although the description in the book was more along the lines of the burster in Alien 3. Still didn't prepare me for the impact of the film's depiction though.

Yes....a novelization done by Alan Dean Foster would be most welcome to be released....YESTERDAY

agreed, I would love it, am still looking for a physical copy pf Alien by him, but I have the audio version, tough to find here in Mtl. BH posted a member discovery of a page in that book with some startling info in the News section. Check it out...

Will do Spartacus.....

I have read all Alien novels b4 seeing the movies. Alan Dean Foster writes them best! I hope to read Prometheus b4 I see the movie... the "let down" will be so much lessened. Not fair.... I expect great things from this movie. Maybe not the same as my screenplays (i wrote Alien 2 and a prequel) but from Ridley I expect only the BEST. Alan Dean Foster can deliver that in his interpretation of the screenplay. I am readin Sentenced to Prism right now (paperback, not Kindle). And it takes me aback..... I wonder if anyone in this forum has watched Alien and saw him stalking Lambert and Parker as they were heading to the storage locker for coolant. If you watch in slow-mo, as the pass the arches going towards the "landerr" to obtain coolant the center of the arch way is empty. Going to the coolant locker you can see the Alien turn his head towards them as they pass that arch way. Just wonderring if i'm the only one who ever noticed.... Please keep me in the lop. I'm just a "hick" from Lexington, KY - US Jbsmit3@gmail.com