TW: Yeah it was like early, early interviews we said “Yeah, David Fincher is a funny guy! He would direct, but he would direct from sitting up in his chair wearing a cowboy hat. Where we did interviews and then he would read it later and go “what the hell?” So Tom had a few good ones. We’re all about the same age and we thought it would be funny if we made stuff up. There was a period there where we were having such a great time with David Fincher because it was fun. Tom Woodruff: Alec, don’t say anything! Don’t say it! I’m shutting down! Where’s my turn off button?!ĪG: So first of all, Tom totally made up the Fincher ‘thinking shell’ thing. Was that the direction you’d been going in? But we’ve never seen pictures of the completed cocoons and I always thought that they looked like – from the work in progress stuff that you’ve shown – I always thought it looked like you were taking inspiration from the original egg morphing scene from Alien rather than Aliens’ hive. The “thinking shell” I think he called it. One cocoon had apparently been finished, and according to Tom Woodruff it was used by David Fincher as his “thinking shell.” So naturally I had to ask Tom and Alec about this!Īaron Percival: So talking about that hive sequence… We know you guys started building cocoons for the sequence and that Fincher had you finish one for his own purposes. It was scripted, and ADI had started construction on the actual cocoons but it was dropped before filming. Last year I visited the topic of the Meat Locker, Alien 3’s deleted hive sequence.
Predator Galaxy recently had the pleasure of talking to Amalgamated Dynamics Inc’s founders and long time Alien and Predator creature effect extraordinaries Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff for our upcoming Alien Day episode of the AvP Galaxy Podcast! So naturally it was a good chance to try to get some information on those questions I’ve had burning in my mind.