{"id":32940,"date":"2019-08-08T12:52:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/?p=32940"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:52:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:52:55","slug":"coming-soon-memory-the-origins-of-alien-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/coming-soon-memory-the-origins-of-alien-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon: Memory: The Origins Of Alien (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott&#8217;s Alien &#8211; rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O&#8217;Bannon and H.R. Giger. A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and our collective unconscious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Alien&#8221; is one of my all time favourite films, to hear they&#8217;re doing this documentary about the origins of it all is very exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32942\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/coming-soon-memory-the-origins-of-alien-2019\/terry-gilliam-alien\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/terry-gilliam-alien.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"terry-gilliam-alien\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/terry-gilliam-alien.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/terry-gilliam-alien.jpg?fit=660%2C440&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/terry-gilliam-alien.jpg?fit=660%2C440\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32942\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Thee filmmakers have said &#8220;Memory \u2013 The Origins Of Alien&#8221; will reveal previously unseen materials from the archives of writer Dan O\u2019Bannon and designer H.R. Giger, including story notes, drawings, designs, behind-the-scenes footage, and O\u2019Bannon\u2019s original 29-page Memory script from 1971. What &#8220;Alien&#8221; fan wouldn&#8217;t want to see that?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To see the trailer just click on the video below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fuKQfEX1Xy4\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Want more Horror? Click on the links below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Raz\u2019s Midnight Macabre Blog page (HERE)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Raz\u2019s Midnight Macabre Facebook page (HERE)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Raz\u2019s Midnight Macabre Instagram page (HERE)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott&#8217;s Alien &#8211; rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":32941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,305,725],"tags":[230,928,1384,3175],"class_list":["post-32940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-movies","category-razs-horror","tag-horror","tag-razs-midnight-macabre","tag-somewhatnerdy","tag-memory-the-origins-of-alien","latest_post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Picture-1-4.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35LLI-8zi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32943,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32940\/revisions\/32943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}