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Alien³
Three times the suspense. Three times the danger. Three times the terror
( Action / Horror / Sci-Fi )


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MPAA Rating:
R
[language]

US Runtime: 114 min

Country of Origin: United States of America

Premiere Date:
May 22, 1992   [USA]
 
Director: David Fincher   [Director]
 
Writers: Larry Ferguson   [Screenplay]
David Giler   [Screenplay]
Walter Hill   [Screenplay]
Dan O'Bannon   [Characters]
Ronald Shusett   [Characters]
Vincent Ward   [Story]
 
Producers: Gordon Carroll   [Producer]
David Giler   [Producer]
Walter Hill   [Producer]
Ezra Swerdlow   [Executive Producer]
Sigourney Weaver   [Co-Producer]
 
Cinematography: Alex Thomson   [Director of Photography]
 
Edited by: David Crowther   [Editor]
Terry Rawlings   [Editor]
 
Music Composed by Elliot Goldenthal   [Original Music Composer]
 
Production Design: Norman Reynolds   [Production Design]
 
Costume Design: David Perry   [Costume Design]
Bob Ringwood   [Costume Design]
 
Casting by Billy Hopkins   [Casting]
Priscilla John   [Casting]
 
Production Companys: 20th Century Fox   (US)
Brandywine Productions   (US)
Brandywine Productions Ltd.
 


Plot Summary:

    Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.

Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)

Sigourney Weaver
Ripley
Charles S. Dutton
Dillon
Charles Dance
Clemens
Paul McGann
Golic
Brian Glover
Andrews
Ralph Brown
Aaron
Danny Webb
Morse
Christopher John Fields
Rains
Holt McCallany
Junior
Lance Henriksen
Bishop II
 
Christopher Fairbank
Murphy
Carl Chase
Frank
Leon Herbert
Boggs
Vincenzo Nicoli
Jude
Pete Postlethwaite
David
Paul Brennen
Troy
Clive Mantle
William
Peter Guinness
Gregor
Deobia Oparei
Arthur
Phil Davis
Kevin
 
 

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Miscellaneous Companies:

Busters on Location
catering
Central Casting
extras casting
First Unit Fire & Safety
firemen
G.S.E. Ltd.
uk opticals
Michael Samuelson Ligthing
lighting
 
Pacific Title
titles and opticals
Samuelson Alga Cinéma
louma crane
Sunrise Films Inc.
negative cutting
Technovision
technocrane
 

Special Effects Department:

Amalgamated Dynamics
Boss Film Studios
Mass. Illusions LLC
 
Video Image
video medical scan graphics and displays
Wildfire Inc.
UV effects
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$50,000,000
Revenue:
$159,773,545
Color Info:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Laboratory:
Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Panavision
Film Negative Format:
35 mm - Kodak 5296
Printed Film Format:
35 mm / 70 mm

Quotes:

  • [To the Alien.]
    Ripley: You've been in my life so long, I can't remember anything else.
     
  • [Ripley is looking for the alien]
    Ripley: Don't be afraid, I'm part of the family.
     
  • Andrews: I'm afraid we'll have to assume that there's a good chance this simple bastard has murdered them!
    Dillon: Now you DON'T know that! He's never lied to me! He's crazy, he's a fool, but he's NOT a liar!
     
  • [Searching for the Alien]
    David: Here, kitty, kitty, kitty!
     
  • Dillon: Why? Why the innocent, punished? Why the sacrifice? Why the pain? There aren't any promises. Nothing certain. Only that some get called, others saved. She won't ever know of the hardship and grief of those of us left behind. We commit these bodies to the void with a glad heart. For within each seed, there is a promise of a flower, and within each death, no matter how small, there is always a new life. A new beginning.
     

Trivia:

  • Sigourney Weaver said she would only shave her head if she got more money.
     
  • Hungarian title translated back to English: "Final Solution: Death."
     
  • A series of Aliens comic books were published that were set after the events in Aliens, featuring an adult Newt returning to space with a shell-shocked Hicks to stop the retrieval of an alien specimen by Weyland-Yutani corporation. The books were re-published to accommodate Alien 3 and Newt was re-named Billy.
     
  • Multiple proposed scripts caused misleading advertising which implied that the movie would be set on Earth. William Gibson also drafted a script in which Ripley spent most of the film in a coma.
     
  • Although the alien that hatched from the dog was a rod puppet, early filmed tests used an actual dog in an alien costume.
     


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