То странное чувство, когда твой хэд-канон по чужому миру оказывается нереализованной изначальной версией.
В определенные периоды жизни вспоминаю фильмы и игры Aliens, Aliens vs Predator - образ чужого/ксеноморфа один из моих любимых среди всего созданного человеческой культурой. Но концепция живой машины для убийств мне всегда была чужда, в моей голове часто играли совсем другие сюжеты...
И вот что я случайно нашел:
Текст на английском
O'Bannon's original concept for the Alien was that it was a member of an advanced civilization, an idea ultimately dropped in favor of a more simplistic, animalistic take. In his initial vision, the final form of the adult Alien was in fact part of a peaceful, cultured race who first had to pass through a period of adolescence, at which stage they were consumed with ferocious violence and aggression.[39] The creature's incredibly complicated reproductive cycle would form the basis of a religion the species followed, involving the use of sacrificial hosts to breed more young inside ornate, ritualistic pyramids. After birth, the violent adolescent creatures would be tended to by the more docile adults, but when those adults were wiped out by an unknown event, the unborn children were left dormant for thousands or even millions of years, waiting for more hosts to arrive.[39] It would be one of these hyper-aggressive, untended adolescents that would stalk the crew of the Nostromo.
"In Dan's original conception the Alien race had three entirely different stages in its life-cycle. First, the egg, which is tended by third-stage adults and housed in a lower chamber of the breeding temple. When ready to hatch, the egg is placed in the middle of a sacrificial stone and a lower animal, the equivalent of an Alien cow, is then led on to the stone. Sensing the warmth, the Facehugger springs out, attaches itself to the animal and deposits a fetus into the stomach. The Facehugger soon drops off and the fetus develops inside, eventually chewing its way out and killing its host. This creature, the Chestburster, is the Alien's second stage, and it simply runs about eating, mindlessly carnivorous. At this stage the creature is still controlled and nurtured by adult Aliens, until the Chestburster begins losing appendages and becomes more and more harmless. Finally — its bloodlust gone — the Alien becomes a mild, intelligent creature, capable of art and architecture, which lives a full, scholarly life of 200 years. At some point a cataclysm causes the extermination of the adults of this unique race leaving no one to tend and nurture the young. But in a dark lower chamber of the breeding temple a large number of eggs lie dormant, waiting to sense something warm."
―Ron Cobb on the Alien civilization envisioned by O'Bannon.[39]
The entire concept of an advanced civilization was dropped from the finished film, while the pyramid or silo where the Eggs were originally to be found was simply merged with the derelict.
Взято отсюдаПеревод не нашел, но суть вкратце: в одной из версий раса ксеноморфов была (относительно) мирной и весьма разумной, но с очень высоким уровнем агрессии на ранних стадиях развития. С учётом необычного и довольно кровавого цикла развития - это могло бы быть очень интересной темой, про очень иных разумных существ с интересной самобытной культурой, но, как обычно, получились исключительно боевики и хорроры. Ну почему всё так всегда?..