Ron Cobb died on September 21 at the age of 83. His name resonates with fans of many science films- fiction and fantasy: it is indeed to him that we owe Doc's doctored DeLorean in Back to the Future, the weapons of Conan the Barbarian or even the design of Alien's Nostromo. his legacy has not finished influencing popular American and world culture.
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Ron Cobb began his career at age 18, as a cartoonist at Disney . He notably played an important role for Sleeping Beauty (1957) for which he was responsible for cutting the script. In 1960, he joined the army and was sent to Vietnam as a cartoonist. experience, he works for the Los Angeles Free Press,then one of the most important alternative newspapers of the 1960s.
It was in 1973 that he took his first steps in the world of cinema with the cult film Dark Star, the first work of the master John Carpenter . Ron designed the spaceship, an exercise he would repeat in 1978 for Alien: he is responsible for the exterior and interior lines of the Nostromo! He then works in tandem with Hans Ruedi Giger, who for his part focuses on the xenomorph, the incredible creature of the Ridley Scott saga.
It is also to Cobb that returns one of the greatest physical peculiarities of the beast: it indeed has the idea of giving it very acidic blood, which makes it even more difficult to kill. The designer continues with the sequel, Aliens (1986), for which he imagines the base of the land colony. Another important date: 1982, when Conan the Barbarian left, where he worked as production designer.
Ron Cobb also meets Steven Spielberg, who gives him a hand on the first installment of Indiana Jones. Their collaboration continues on E.T., in which the designer plays a small role. In 1985, Spielberg asked her to imagine the time-traveling car from Back to the Future: it was the jackpot with this DeLorean who had become a pop culture icon. Cobb continued to work for theaters until 2006 and Southland Tales, by Richard Kelly.
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