Giger submitted a boldly unique design for the film’s Batmobile, re-imagining the Caped Crusader’s iconic vehicle in his own biomechanical style. In the wake of Alien, Giger created designs for Poltergeist II: The Other Side and Species, and in the early ’90s, he was even approached to do some design work on Batman Forever.
Without Giger’s game-changing creation, even Ridley Scott admits, Alien probably wouldn’t even exist, but the Swiss artist’s contributions to the world of cinema don’t start and stop with the Alien franchise. Giger is of course most known for designing the Xenomorph in the original Alien, one of the most iconic monsters in the history of cinema. I would love to see the design sketch's if they exist. This rumor seems to get passed around a lot as fact. Giger did production design art for the film Batman Forever, with a radically different design for the Batmobile than the seen in the film (or elsewhere). Reader Steve wrote to ask whether we almost saw Giger's work appear in Batman Forever, of all places: “Is it true that artist H.R. Giger (and the rest of the visual effects team for the film, namely Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder and Dennis Ayling) won the Academy Award for Visual Effects he recently was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Scott ultimately chose a design based on a drawing Giger had createdcalled "Necronom IV." Studio executives were worried that Giger's design might be too disturbing for viewers, but Scott was adamant about using it, and the resulting film obviously proved the director correct. The writer later recalled, "I had never seen anything that was quite as horrible and at the same time as beautiful as his work." So when O'Bannon's Alien screenplay was optioned, he immediately thought of Giger to design the creature. The creature was designed by Swiss artist Hans Rudolf "H.R." Giger, whom O'Bannon had worked with on a planned adaptation of Dune that never happened.
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