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| LV426 | |
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| Executive Officer | |
| Weylan-Yutani | |
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| Executive Officer | |
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| male | |
| 174cms | |
| 77kgs | |
Name[]
Kane is an Executive Officer aboard the Nostromo in the film Alien.
In the Novelisation of Alien, upon waking from the facehugger induced coma, Kane shows symptoms of memory loss. When asked by Ash, he states his name is “Kane...., Thomas Kane”
After the crew emerge from stasis Captain Dallas, Executive Officer Kane, and Navigator Lambert set out to investigate the source of the signal. While there a Face Hugger impregnates Kane, so he is helped back aboard the Nostromo. Seemly recovered from this attack and the Face Hugger being removed, during a meal Kane dies as a Chest Burster emerges from his chest.
Characteristics[]
Kane is shown to be a competent professional, who is well liked by rest of the Nostromo Crew. He is typically level headed, optimistic and adventurous.
The Alien novelisation expands on his character by describing him as a smaller, less forceful echo of Captain Dallas. In the novel and in deleted scenes from the movie, Kane displays a very mildly reckless attitude towards exploring. This attitude drives Kane to volunteer to be in the EVA party that explores the derelict on LV 426. He is also keen to explore the shaft and cargo bay of the derelict, a choice that leads to him becoming the Aliens first victim.
Appearance[]
Appearances in the following;
Alien (film)
Alien (1984)
Alien: Isolation
Features[]
Interactions[]
The commercial towing spaceship Nostromo is on a return trip from Thedus to Earth, hauling a refinery and twenty million tons of mineral ore, and carrying its seven-member crew in stasis. Upon receiving a transmission of unknown origin from a nearby planetoid, the ship's computer awakens the crew. Acting on standing orders from their corporate employers, the crew detaches the Nostromo from the refinery and lands on the planetoid, resulting in some damage to the ship. Captain Dallas, Executive Officer Kane, and Navigator Lambert set out to investigate the signal's source while Warrant Officer Ripley, Science Officer Ash, and Engineers Brett and Parker stay behind to monitor their progress and make repairs.
Dallas, Kane, and Lambert discover that the signal is coming from a derelict alien spacecraft. Inside it they find the remains of a large alien creature whose ribs appear to have been forced outward from the inside. Meanwhile, the Nostromo's computer partially deciphers the signal transmission, which Ripley determines to be some type of warning. Kane discovers a vast chamber containing numerous eggs, one of which releases a creature that attaches itself to his face. Dallas and Lambert carry the unconscious Kane back to the Nostromo, where Ash allows them inside against Ripley's orders to follow the ship's quarantine protocol. They unsuccessfully attempt to remove the creature from Kane's face, discovering that its blood is an extremely corrosive acid. Eventually the creature detaches on its own and is found dead. With the ship repaired, the crew resume their trip back to Earth. Kane awakens seemingly unharmed, but during a meal before re-entering stasis he begins to choke and convulse until an alien creature bursts from his chest, killing him and escaping into the ship. Lacking conventional weapons, the crew attempt to locate and capture the creature by fashioning motion trackers, electric prods, and flamethrowers. Brett follows the crew's cat into a large room where the now-fully-grown Alien attacks him and disappears with his body into the ship's air shafts. Dallas enters the shafts intending to force the Alien into an airlock where it can be expelled into space, but it ambushes him. Lambert implores the remaining crew members to escape in the ship's shuttle, but Ripley, now in command, explains that the shuttle will not support four people. Accessing the ship's computer, Ripley discovers that Ash has been ordered to return the Alien to the Nostromo's corporate employers even at the expense of the crew's lives. Ash attacks her, but Parker intervenes and decapitates him with a blow from a fire extinguisher, revealing Ash to be an android. Before Parker incinerates him, Ash predicts that the other crew members will not survive. The remaining three crew members plan to arm the Nostromo's self-destruct mechanism and escape in the shuttle, but Parker and Lambert are killed by the Alien while gathering the necessary supplies. Ripley initiates the self-destruct sequence and heads for the shuttle with the cat, but finds the Alien blocking her way. She unsuccessfully attempts to abort the self-destruct, then returns to find the Alien gone and narrowly escapes in the shuttle as the Nostromo explodes. As she prepares to enter stasis, Ripley discovers that the Alien is aboard the shuttle. She puts on a space suit and opens the hatch, causing explosive decompression which forces the Alien to the open doorway. She shoots it with a grappling gun which propels it out, but the gun is yanked from her hands and catches in the closing door, tethering the Alien to the shuttle. It attempts to crawl into one of the engines, but Ripley activates them and blasts the Alien into space. She then puts herself and the cat into stasis for the return trip to Earth.
Continuity[]
Kane's character is played by John Hurt.
Kane has an embryo inpregnated into him by a Face Hugger from the Derelict
which he brings back aboard the Nostromo, a Chest Burster later emerges from his chest killing him.
Concept[]
Ronald Shusett executive producer for the story with script writer Dan O'Bannon wrote and edited a script that was for an all male cast but were uncertain whether 20th Century Fox would buy the script. Dan O'Bannon originally pitched the film to the studio as 'Jaws in Space'. Wanting that it should be available for a wider audience wrote on the script by the crew, 'The crew are unisex and all parts are interchangeable for men or women'. The crew included at the time of writing;
Chas Standard-Captain
Lee Roby-Executive Officer
Dell Broussand-Navigator
Sandy Helikonis-Communications Tech
Cleave Hunter-Mining Engineer
Jay Faust-Engine Tech
With this crew members allowed for any of the crew to be a woman or a man, Ronald Shusett also speculated that even a woman could play as a commander or captain but also didn't envisage a leading lady playing Ripley's character. Further input by Ridley Scott saw a woman being cast as the leading role. This was mostly due with the rewrites that allowed for a role of a woman, a further female was cast as Lambert the navigator with other characters staying as males but varied in number before the final version. Luckily 20th Century Fox was after a film with spaceships and so green-lighted Alien as their only space orientated film.
With the new characters for their role chosen, casting continued in the US and by Mary Selway casting (UK), the cast being chosen for their ability in the chosen role for each of the characters. Ridley Scott added saying that, 'the cast is very definitive', that it is important that the right characters are chosen for the role and this would follow into the film, making them believable for the role that they are playing.
Ivor Powell associate producer along with Ridley Scott thought of the idea of a more industrial vessel for the Nostromo and 'Truckers In Space', a concept of truck drivers journeying on a long route in space, with this idea areas of the Nostromo would have a more used feel and appearance, worn and sparse which also followed though to the crew's uniforms, equipment used aboard the spacecraft and the different levels and areas.
On-set[]
Final crew in filming;
Dallas-Captain
Kane-Executive Officer
Ripley-Warrant Officer
Ash-Science Officer
Lambert-Navigator
Parker-Engineer
Brett-Engineering Technician
Jones-Cat
John Finch was cast for the role of Executive Officer and for the reason he became ill was recast with John Hurt in the role. Later this was found to be because he was a diabetic and only filmed a few takes of one scene, so John Hurt who turned the role down the first time around due with filming in South Africa was asked again. Ridley Scott drove to Hamstead Village on a Friday afternoon meeting with Hurt and after a discussion that lasted into the early hours was chosen and asked to start on the following Monday morning.
With the DLC maps Crew Expendable and Last Survivor for the game Alien: Isolation the characters from the film Alien reappear and some are playable in-game. These are from two scenes from the film; Crew Expendable includes finding the alien and flushing it towards the air lock and Last Survivor includes playing as Ripley and evac from the Nostromo after setting the self-destruct. This gameplay occurs after the death of Kane, he also appears in the DLC videos Alien: Isolation Cast Reunite and Alien: Isolation The Cast of. In Alien: Isolation The Cast of trailer.
Timeline[]
The film Alien is set in 2122.
The game Alien (1984) was published in 1984 and based on the film Alien.
See also[]
Brett
Dallas
Lambert
Ripley
Ash
Parker
References[]
Citations[]
Alien (film)
The Beast Within-The making of Alien
Star Beast-Developing the story
Truckers In Space-Casting