![]() I called the ship Nostromo (from Conrad: no particular metaphoric idea, I just thought it sounded good). cards, I added Ellen (my mother's middle name). I tried that, but I thought the money was on making the ultimate survivor a woman - I named her Ripley (after Believe It Or Not) later when she had to have a first name for I.D. During the interview he said the following about names:ĭavid had suggested making the captain (Dallas) a woman. The November 2004 issue of Film International (PDF download) has an interview with Walter Hill, one of the producers for Alien. Only one primary source I could find credits anyone with the name of Nostromo. All sources that mention previous names list "the Snark" as the original name given by Dan O'Bannon, and some sources mention "the Leviathan" as an intermediate name used for at least part of pre-production. So we can recast the question to, "How did the Nostromo get its name?" So many secondary sources on the Internet claim that Ridley Scott himself named the Nostromo. Also, the name "Nostromo" pretty much has to be Conrad reference, while "Narcissus" could just be a Greek mythology reference. ![]() By all accounts, the ship names subsequent to the names in the first movie are named that way to continue the "tradition" of the names of the Nostromo and the Narcissus, and the Nostromo was named first during pre-production for Alien. ![]()
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