HR Gigers Bizarre Alien Runner / Alien 3 Concept Art

Alien designer and creator HR Giger was asked to create a new alien for the third film, Alien 3. His work was not used unfortunately, but as always, its worth looking at. His bizarre, yet amazing concepts may have been too much for Fox, but its a fascinating concept either way. Check out Alien explorations, a great source for everything alien.
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[@OhNyo69]

I feel like the feminine features of Giger's Xeno would have worked really well with the monastery story in the earlier draft. A planet full of sexually repressed monks are suddenly confronted by a monstrous yet strangely sexual monster. Could have also made a nice parallel to the effect Ripley would have had on these monks as well.

[@AJsFigures]

Giger knew best. The weird, creepy intelligent Xeno will always be my xeno. It's what makes them scary. As soon as the xenos became animals they lost their terror. Keeping them ominous and unpredictable is what makes them so frightening. I want them to bring back this aspect in the movies

[@sporovid5856]

FINALLY someone who gets it. Thanks. Aliens is a good film, but James Cameron ruined Xenomorphs in my opinion. Turned a lovecraftian horror into a bunch of ants

[@non.local.quantum.circuit]

@@sporovid5856 Exactly!!! I'm glad there are Alien fans who understand this .... Cameron with his Alien$ has destroyed this mysterious, miraculous... Magnificent ... figure of the Alien.

[@tosweetdelight]

Agreed - the original Alien clearly had intelligence, toying with its prey because... well, because we just didn't know/couldn't understand why bc it was so alien. I can get down with the idea of drones in a hive being more drone-like, but it does make them less frightening.

[@pentacosttb2565]

I disagree on this. The aliens in Aliens were definitely an insect like creature, but they’re also highly intelligent and outsmarted and outmanoeuvred the humans repeatedly through the film. Really, in many ways they’re more an analogy for communism and the lack of care for the lives of the individuals, coupled with a dreadful and totally amoral cruelty.

[@EbonyPope]

I agree that the legs for the first design looked goofy that why they only showed the upper part. But apart from that it was perfection. Sometimes artists need someone who gives them feedback or tells them when they go to far. Communication through music is a stupid idea. This design here would be okay as a variation but should not replace the original.

[@rkitchen69]

This is such a unique and fascinating design but still using elements of his original alien. The tongue, barbed spear kiss sequence would have been super creepy. Also, hearing it play sounds from its body makes me think of a rattlesnake. Gives me shivers!

[@th3lonef0x4]

You'll love Alien: Into Charybdis then. (Sequel novel to Alien: The Cold forge.)

[@badfrankenstein1009]

I personally like Giger's runner over the one we ended up getting.

[@BenniRoR]

Not gonna lie, Giger's vision for the new Alien was quite sexy.

[@sebbesolo6274]

Giger had a good understanding of what makes something unique. The lips would be interesting if done in a subtle way,, and the body making music sounds great. I imagine it making eerie sounds, or maybe try to make soothing sounds, like a mermaid, making the victims curious to check it out

[@jointcerulean3350]

This Horrifying and incredibly unique xenomorph design is really awesome! with the barbed spear tongue with backwards facing spikes, swords coming through the knuckles or fingers and also the feet like the wolverine, and X23 as you mentioned, saw blade shoulders, and a second set of skin That can make sounds like a bizarre instrument. Also having a creepy unsettling finger brain is terrifying! It would be really cool if they used H.R. Giger’s concepts of the dog alien for a new and sadistic xenomorph species, that would be incredible if they did that, and executed it right.

[@GodzillaFan-ok7ek]

R.I.P. HR Giger.

[@wafagdplqs4421]

R.I.P

[@GodzillaFan-ok7ek]

@@wafagdplqs4421 He will be missed.

[@jimbowlan5804]

It’s sad how fox treated hr with out his design fox never would made money

[@Jenjak]

I like the alien to be a twisted version of human beings. Like it takes stuff from our DNA but turns it in the most nightmarish way.

[@thedoruk6324]

This looks absolutely amazing! 3:07 Xenomorph unexpectedly looks feminine

[@scifiexplained]

Hey Doruk!

[@thedoruk6324]

@@scifiexplained hello How are things going

[@scifiexplained]

Great! How are you?

[@thedoruk6324]

@@scifiexplained not bad fortunately things are normalizing

[@rickyrackey7930]

@@scifiexplained How you doing? Less gooo

[@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip]

This seems also more like a female counterpart to the Big Chap's masculine features. With the original idea of the monks, you could tell that the sexual violence of the alien was used to even greater and apparent effect.

[@linkndark]

I was lucky enough to see Gigers model in Berlin last week. It is currently on display in the "Schinkel Pavillon",with some of his other works until the 16th of January.

[@jacoboj-zv4jv]

In Alien novel "Into Charybdis" there is Xeno looking like it. It's exciting moment for Alien universe's fan, when you realize that Alex White is describing Giger's concept.

[@wasm9342]

Disney needs to make Alien 3: 2

[@clutch2827]

Giger's first studio experience was fortunately and unfortunately his best experience.

[@Miguel-jq6ol]

While the musical element seems strange I can imagine incorporated in some way. Like the form of the body creating a sound like a howling wind in a breeze or when it runs. A sound you hear off screen and gets louder as it approches. Or even icorporated into an environment like the space jockey's ships or architecture with the organic hallways creating a strange form of music

[@Jcarroz]

fascinating. I'm glad they didn't do this for Alien 3 but would love to see this explored elsewhere.

[@benjiii3407]

The spear tongue concept with the monk by Geiger is fucn twisted and sick. Would it stab through the head completely or just go in and pull inside out ? How would it even get its prey in that situation ? What if the holes in the Runners chest were made for more than just to show it’s emotion or express itself but instead for mimicking sounds of other animals or the environment. Maybe the voice of another human when it’s tracking one down. Whenever it’s victim makes eye contact maybe the frontal lobe/enlarged head area would glow or be even more transparently visible and the victim would be influenced by the Runners ability. Maybe stunned, in a trance or maybe the finger brain waves are strong enough to lure its victims right to the Runner ready for a big wet kiss. I imagine it more like a seduction sort of trance/trickery, rather than a possession. Spear tonguing its victim in a kiss is so Geiger and fucked up, would’ve been crazy shocking to see something like that in one of these movies.

[@dynamosaurusimperious2718]

This sure is one very nice video about the scripted Alien Dog Runner,and though Giger made a very weird alien,and he still is one very awesome dude. Also I wish y'all a Greta day,and RIP HR Giger

[@jointcerulean3350]

There’s a cool sketch of the dog alien that H R Giger made were the alien had a more animalistic appearance like the rottweiler Dog host in burst out of with a longer mouth with canine dentition and was baring it’s teeth, and the gums were pulled more forward and extended kinda like when a shark feeds, or attempts to bite a prey item. The look of it’s mouth, teeth, and gum pulled forward really made it look extremely fierce and terrifying. Also the sketches that were drawn next to the mouth drawings had the dog aliens full body. Showing it’s dexterity, agility, speed, and ambushing attacks, like a puma it looked fast, highly lethal, and also elegant.

[@grant72]

So he blend Sil's tongue to A Xenomorph. Nice

[@Mario_N64]

Giger felt manipulated and misled by David Fincher. He says Fincher wasn't straightforward with him, he made Giger think he was the lead designer of the creature.

[@sterneis1]

HR Giger was just an amazing suisse artist l must say

[@mycaleb8]

Would have been a good return to form. Hell, with three very different aliens, you could easily day part of what makes it the "perfect organism" is that every generation is evolved uniquely.

[@EBMZEQUENZER]

And than we got David as a xenomorph creator : fuck off film !

[@neurohack9038]

This is exactly what they should have used. It would have been amazing.

[@Lucasfan375]

Even if they went with this design, it would be a little bit too hard to pull off. But, I kind of hope that this alien appears in some form

[@axelibrotherus3526]

What people usually forget is that the runner in alien 3 was only born because its host was a dog. So it used its dna or something to behave like one. So there aint really diferent species, just inviduals that differ from each other according to their hosts.

[@AzayBae]

This xeno got me acting up.

[@AngelesInversores-b4f]

Quiero ver ese alien en una precuela, y que pueda hablar

[@nicholasraso6742]

giger is so cool

[@HouseDracul]

Recreating the Kissing Dragon has been one of my favorite undertakings as King Father. She's an anti-human specialist even among Plagiarus praepotens.

[@th3lonef0x4]

7:17 Well your in luck, Alien: Into Charybdis has you covered. (Just make sure to read the first book The Cold forge first.)

[@sprite4481]

I hope this guy comes back🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@scifiexplained]

working on a new video right now!

[@IcecreamThe1st]

3k from 100k subs !

[@jon-laurencedecespedes2811]

why hasn't NECA made this into a figure yet? i need it. now.

[@scifiexplained]

thats a great idea! they need to hear this!

[@jon-laurencedecespedes2811]

@@scifiexplained i bet you that it is an issue of rights...in that they have the right to reproduce creatures and concepts owned by the Alien franchise but not owned by Giger himself (which i believe this design is)...in that way, NECA would have to petition the Giger estate etc. The closest thing we can get are 3dprinters printing the design (there is one on Etsy who prints giger's alien 3 face as a decoration to be hung on the wall). Also, McFarlane's version of the dog alien was something akin to a cross between Giger's Alien 3 design and ADI's alien 3 design.

[@jon-laurencedecespedes2811]

love the channel by the way.

[@jointcerulean3350]

It would also be cool if Neca made the other sketches of the dog alien that Giger made into figure form.

[@jashkholiya7116]

Man, missing your uploads Comeback soon

[@1tuz508]

Interesting video, thanks.

[@scifiexplained]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@samrizzardi2213]

I hope NECA releases a figure

[@scifiexplained]

oh yea!!!! I never thought about that, it would be awesome!

[@MrChupacabra555]

I thought the lips were more like Angelina Jolie myself ^_^

[@jackieboyborden]

they should have trusted Giger

[@petervlcko4858]

alien movie is basically gigers nightmare moving picture. and it should stay like that. that a shame they went down the hole were alien is animal and then AI liquid goo creation all too bolocks and not enough surreal. this concept will make us stare again on screen with open mouth not believing what we are watch but not able to turn head away paralyzed by fear.

[@sneakyking]

Giger was a messed up bro.

[@--SHEPHERD-OF-MOTHER-EARTH--]

he saw the void... madness... nihilism itself... started back at it and walked away... he was pretty strong in his own way... he might have been worthy... didn't know him personally... but maybe...

[@sneakyking]

@@--SHEPHERD-OF-MOTHER-EARTH-- that's a good description. Seeing the void and the madness just above.

[@sheep1ewe]

I think he purposly confronted the wiewer of the art with those parts of the human mind that make us feel uncomfortable to admit, a fusion between sleep and awake. In my opinin he was a true master catching those parts of the human mind, i think that's what makes the monsters that creepy because they are not what they apear to be on the surface, they are actualy about revieling uncomfortable parts of our inner self we try to deny that we hawe inside us, i do not think it is a coincident he designed the xenomorphs as they where, there are deffinitly a lot more to them under the surface.

[@reodimitri]

What he plans to create is interesting. 🧐

[@ANW115]

U ok man? Haven’t uploaded in a while

[@scifiexplained]

Yeah, thanks for asking! Combination of house getting remodeled and resting and doing physical therapy on my arms. Hoping to return soon!

[@J3keEditz]

@@scifiexplained Glad to know your still good! Can't wait for you to return

[@ANW115]

@@scifiexplained kk I was just worried 😀

[@ANW115]

@@J3keEditz same 🙂

[@--SHEPHERD-OF-MOTHER-EARTH--]

he saw the void... madness... nihilism itself started back at it and walked away... he was pretty strong in his own way... he might have been worthy... didn't know him personally... but maybe...

[@vermis8344]

"And then, and then he kisses the alien! Ya! Ya ya ya...!" 🤨

[@SomaSong]

I would love to help the channel by narrating. Hmu if you are interested.

[@nelsonminator]

I like this one better... it keeps the Xenomorph where it should be... a big ?.

[@jabroniyumerale6204]

Alien 3 should've been a quality comedy-horror pornparody (where the porn is replaced with a gorn a bit).

[@TheBaioken]

I dont like the weird runner/dog thing we got in Alien3. Its just too much like a usual alien drone, just a bit more slick and all fours, not really presenting anything new or unique. Also I always associate it with those non pretty CGI shots from the film.

[@jerryfick8547]

It is by far my favorite alien. So animalistic and vicious.

[@Kramswodahs]

Would

[@trishmenhart1792]

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[@joshXnovak1]

First?!

[@cineffect]

Thank goodness none of this made it i to the final design of Alien³.

[@johnmcwherter2538]

Why do they keep saying human like when the runner alien came out of a dog?

[@slayertakim1]

Probably based on the original script they had before it changed a but before Finch was brought on board. The original scripts for 3 didnt really include the xeno coming from a dog

[@notsogooddoctor6272]

I'm gonna be completely honest, it SUCKS, that they didn't keep this design.

[@Constantine_IA]

Species alien looks like shit though...

[@majinwarwulf]

Wow. I was always a little disappointed by Alien 3, compared to the first two. I am super glad they did not use Geiger's version. Human-like? Tongue? Music? FEELINGS? No thanks.

[@gavinoconnorclarke5270]

I prefer it over ADI's runner. That's not to say their runner is bad, I just prefer something new and different. In my opinion, ADI's Runner suited Fincher's dark, dystopian mining planet. Giger's runner's would have worked for Vincent Ward's Alien 3 in terms of environment, such as the wooden planet. Ward's wooden planet had trees, and fields, like corn or grain fields. Imagine this creature teasing its pray through music or hissing inside a long, grain field. Another working environment would be a jungle like planet since it's like a lion/Puma. So, if Disney wanted to incorporate Giger's runner via comic or film, they would need to set the story on a jungle planet.

[@CommanderM820]

I’m I the only one who thinks this concept is stupid

[@THUGSologist]

The big chap was a serial killer & did toy with his victims i guess Giger didnt see the original Alien film

[@kitslagle6296]

I think Giger was sick and demon possessed.

[@johndwolynetz6495]

what if the demon was possessed with hr giger?