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ALIEN REBOOTED A Marketing Monster Awakens from Hypersleep Dr Kerry Gough Birmingham School of Media

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ALIEN REBOOTED A Marketing Monster Awakens from Hypersleep

Dr Kerry Gough Birmingham School of Media

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Dark Horse Comics: Extended Alien Universe

• Certainly not the first extension to the Alien narrative arc

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Alien Origins

Lengthy genesis…

Alien (79)Aliens (86)Alien 3 (92)Alien Resurrection (97)

…extended play

AVP: Alien vs. Predator (04)Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (07)

Prometheus (12)

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H.R.Giger:Alien

MonsterVI

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Alien Creations & the Importance of Design

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Alien Underground

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Extending the Alien Narrative

Prometheus returns to Alien story of the space jockey

Narrativises origins creation story Engineers as creators of mankind

To retell the original Alien story

New and improved

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The Importance of Origins…

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ALIEN REBOOTED A Marketing Monster Awakens from Hypersleep

Signing off…Dr Kerry Gough, Birmingham School of Media