Excerpts from The Darkest Reaches Featurette

Ridley Scott: We visited a bomber graveyard of aircraft. There's Wellington bombers and Spitfires, and falling apart. Roger said if I buy two of those scrap metal, it would take me a month to dismantle this. We'll put in organized pieces on shelves and we can make sculptural corridors.

Let's say I do six feet and you come down and say yea I like that, six feet. Then once you got that repetition down that length of corridor, we just worked on it that way and it looked like it flew.

Ronald Shusett: On the so called Space Jockey, which Giger by the way, designed that whole set, and he hand brushed the alien himself and got on a scaffold and airbrushed the whole set so it would have that eerie texture. But the thing was this, they didn't want to give it to us. It's too expensive of a set.

We kept after them, we said look we need this because this is our Cecille B. DeMille shot. You got to have the people walking in, not miniatures, camera pull back and they are on this thing and it's the most amazing set you've ever seen.

Ron Cobb: The ship is a strange mixture of retro-fitted old technology. Kind of an industrial nightmare. Like being trapped in a factory or something. So I talked Ridley into all these industrial symbols and color coding to create that industrial revolution feel. Some of them were semi-humorous such as a space person floating upside meaning don't open this door. I went in all these directions and somehow it all fit together, Ridley made it fit all together. He's a wonderful artist and he wanted it to look a lot like a Mobeus design ship with all kinds of rounded surfaces, sort of an Egyptian motif.

Various images from The Darkest Reaches Featurette