Screenplay Archive
Alien — Screenplay1979
- Writers:
- Dan O'Bannon
- Length:
- 112 pages (Hollywood standard format)
The "haunted house in space" high-concept minimalism — pacing claustrophobic dread and the economics of picking off a cast.
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