The Committee to Nuke Elysium

darklyeuphoric:

Holloway Alien concept art for Prometheus, via the always superb Strange Shapes.

“It is a humanoid demon, spindly limbs and bony back. Boneless and flexible and monstrously strong. A threshing eel’s tail. Its blunt head dolphin-like and elongated … A nightmare image, a translucent white goblin. Backlit, it shows the strange shape of a human face inside its fleshy skull. A mockery of Holloway.
And then it’s gone.”
~ Alien: Engineers, by Jon Spaihts.

The Strange Shapes article Ultramorphs, Xenomorphs, and Weapons of War investigates numerous variations of H.R. Giger’s iconic space monster considered for Prometheus. (It also makes me realize how brilliant and thoughtful Jon Spaihts’ original script was, and how the “not an Alien prequel” rewrite failed so badly in so many ways.)