ALIEN VAULT opens a portal into the making of this legendary film, tracing its path from embryonic concept to fully fledged box office phenomenon. Featured are director Ridley Scotts own annotated storyboards, Polaroids and script pages; the elegant but disturbing concept artwork of H.R. Giger; sketches and construction blueprints for the Nostromo; costume designs by Moebius; a treasure trove of never-before-seen photographs of the cast and crew; and ten meticulously reproduced artefacts, enclosed in vellum envelopes, for readers to remove and examine more closely.