David Cronenberg's Alien — Novelization by J.G. Ballard
By Lyle Hopwood • Oct 25th, 2006 •
Category: body horror, David Cronenberg, features, pastiche, sexual politics
———————————————————————————— Lyle Hopwood uncovers a lost Ballard work, apparently the only surviving fragment from JGB’s novelization of David Cronenberg’s film of Alien, before the studio infamously got cold feet and replaced Cronenberg with Ridley Scott and Ballard with Alan Dean Foster. ———————————————————————————— It’s only the cat, Ripley. Squatting in the brine strained from the ore [...]
