The sequence in which the Nostromo sets down on the planetoid is extended.

In the book, the Nostromo is hauling a cargo of crude oil and a refinery to process it rather than mineral ore.In the film, Dallas goes alone indeed, the film makes it clear only the current ranking officer has authorization to access the ship's computer interface. Ash accompanies Dallas to talk to Mother about why the crew has been woken from hypersleep early.In the novel, this conversation happens while the crew are still in the hypersleep chamber. In the film, the first dialogue scene between the crew (in which Parker first raises the 'bonus situation') happens over breakfast.In the film, he does not find out something is amiss until he talks to the computer after breakfast. Dallas is immediately aware that the crew has been woken in response to some urgent issue as soon as he climbs out of his hypersleep capsule - Mother informs him with a flashing light.The crew is naked during hypersleep, and when in operation the chambers are filled with a viscous liquid that the crew have to wipe off when they wake.However, not all of the changes from the alternate cut of the film are included in the novel - for instance, Lambert does not attack Ripley outside the med bay in retaliation for Ripley refusing to allow them back on board the ship earlier. Many of the additions found in the Director's Cut of Alien are also in the novelization, including the crew listening to the beacon transmission before setting down on the planetoid and the famous Eggmorphing scene. For who could tell what being called to them - or why. By space law, they must descend, explore, and render assistance.īut they would carry weapons. In their long cold sleep, the seven space travellers had left their own universe behind, and now their monitor told them that on the planet revolving below them, someone was signalling for help. A strange sun lit the sky with orange rays.

Alien the official movie novelization