There’s nothing all that remarkable about the title treatment for Ridley Scott’s Alien, which consists of simple white letters that ominously appear on screen, piece by piece, during the opening credits. Nothing flashy. Nothing extreme. Just simple, eerie, and to the point – which pretty well sums up the movie as a whole, doesn’t it?
The original title treatment? It was everything the final logo was not.
As shown off by We Are the Mutants, designer Michael Doret’s unused title treatment for the 1979 classic has just surfaced, and the font he created for it can best be described as “Gigerian Biomech.” Each of the letters in the logo looks to be formed out of a piece of a Xenomorph, and though the design is pitch perfectly Alien, it’s a little too flashy for what Scott was going for.
Explains Doret:
“The title treatment I designed for Ridley Scott’s Alien never made it into the public arena. It had some small promotional uses before it was run over by the Bill Gold Advertising machine and relegated to the back burner. At any rate, this was great fun to have worked on—the more so since I was able to work on it with my friend (the now famous “pop-surrealist”) Todd Schorr. I designed and drew the forms based on the “bio-mechanical” forms I saw in some publicity stills from the production, and Todd painted the absolutely gorgeous finished art.”
Gorgeous indeed. Check out the unused Alien logo below!
