“How was this never a thing?”

ALIEN (1979) dir. Ridley Scott

So, um, we think we should discuss the bonus situation…
ALIEN (1979) dir. Ridley Scott

Nigerian artist and actor Bolaji Badejo, who played the titular Alien in Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic

I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up.

 ALIEN
1979, dir. Ridley Scott

This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.
ALIEN (1979) dir. Ridley Scott

This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.

ALIEN
1979, dir. Ridley Scott

Nathan J. Anderson, Aboard the Nostromo, 2015.

Ron Cobb’s Alien concept art