"Alien" : Behind the Scenes Trivia Quiz

Answer: In an English pub

The seven foot actor was spotted in a pub and offered the role. He was taught Tai-Chi to have the fluid movement that the director wanted. Badejo was studying art when he was spotted in a bar by Ridley Scott. He more than matched what Scott was looking for. Scott didn't want people to see a man in a monster suit and at that height he thought it would be less probable.

Answer: The Eighth Passenger

There were seven in the original crew... until the alien arrived and made it eight! The original name of the movie was "Star Beast" until Dan O'Bannon, the writer, came upon the inspiration of the word 'alien' which can be both adjective and noun. He was sleeping on Ronald Shusett's couch at the time too!

Answer: Peter Mayhew

Peter Mayhew also played Chewbacca in "Star Wars". Vin and Jeff did not try out for the movie.

Answer: He suffered a severe diabetic attack.

Kane was the character that had the 'alien' come out of his stomach. There is footage out there of Finch's first scene on the bridge of the Nostromo. Jon looks unusually pale, even with makeup, in these scenes. I often wonder what the movie would have been like with him in it since both he and John Hurt were such established actors at the time.

Answer: The alien bit off Ripley's head.

Scott wanted the alien to sit in Ripley's chair and speak the closing words in her voice. 20th Century Fox did not like this idea and wouldn't let him.

Answer: He did not use some of the music that Goldsmith had written.

Not only did Scott not use all of the music that Goldsmith had written, but he also used music that Goldsmith had written for an earlier film called "Freud". Scott had used music from "Freud" during the airshaft scenes with Dallas. Goldsmith held this against Scott up to the time Goldsmith died.

Answer: The Who

Ridley thought the lasers would make a great visual for the alien egg chamber. Much debate has gone on by fans as to what the blue light was. Although Scott had no reason for it, fans seem in agreement that the light was an alien alarm system designed to awaken the eggs should anyone come close enough to them and break the beam of light.

The Who are famous for such songs as "My Generation" and "Won't Get Fooled Again." Their song "Who Are You" is the theme song for the television show "C.S.I.".

Answer: Attack the alien in his death scene and wrestled it to the ground against the director's orders

Yaphet played Parker. Right up to the moment of his 'death' Yaphet kept telling Ripley that he could and would beat the alien. He was also asked by the director to yell different things at Sigourney each take to make her increasingly more angry with him during the scene after Dallas' death, where Ripley had to decide what to do.

Answer: Lambert slapping Ripley's face

Knowing how much fans were craving more, Ridley Scott inserted this scene back for them. He had left it out because the nervous tension seen between Ripley and Lambert, without the slap, was much more thicker and intense. There was a scene of Kane making coffee, but it was never in the original. Ripley throwing Ash against the computer was in both versions.

The love scene was written at one point, but was never filmed.

Answer: To watch dailies

Producer Gordon Carroll apparently did not like O'Bannon too much and refused to let the man, who thought up "Alien" in the first place, in to watch dailies. O'Bannon got past this by standing next to the projectionist whenever the dailies were shown.

This was stated by O'Bannon on the DVD extras. Dalies are a series of hastily printed shots from the previous day's shooting, selected by the director to be viewed for possible inclusion in the final version of the film.