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Cast:
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Crew:
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Special Effects:
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- Amalgamated Dynamics
- Boss Film Studios
- Mass. Illusions LLC
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- Video Image
- video medical scan graphics and displays
- Wildfire Inc.
- UV effects
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Miscellaneous Companies:
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- Busters on Location
- catering
- Central Casting
- extras casting
- First Unit Fire & Safety
- firemen
- G.S.E. Ltd.
- uk opticals
- Michael Samuelson Ligthing
- lighting
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- Pacific Title
- titles and opticals
- Samuelson Alga Cinéma
- louma crane
- Sunrise Films Inc.
- negative cutting
- Technovision
- technocrane
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
- Blast Beach, Northumberland, England, UK
- Blyth Power Station, Northumberland, England, UK
- Dawdon Beach, County Durham, England, UK
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK [studio]
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Tech Info:
- Budget:
- $50,000,000 (USA)
- Color Info:
- Color (Eastmancolor)
- Laboratory:
- Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 2.35 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Panavision
- Film Negative Format:
- 35 mm - Kodak 5296
- Printed Film Format:
- 35 mm / 70 mm
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Quotes:
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Andrews: This is Rumor Control. Here are the facts!
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Dillon: Do you have any faith, sister?
Ripley: Not much.
Dillon: We've got a lot of faith here.
Ripley: I thought women weren't allowed.
Dillon: Well, we tolerate anybody, even the intolerable.
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Andrews: Let me see if I've got this straight, Lieutenant: it's an 8-foot creature, some kind with acid for blood, kills on sight, and is generally unpleasant.
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Bishop II: Ripley! Think of all we can learn from it! You MUST let me have it! It's a magnificent special!
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[To the Alien.]
Ripley: You've been in my life so long, I can't remember anything else.
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Trivia:
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- First-time director David Fincher disowned the film, citing constant studio interference and actually walked out of production before editing began.
- Original script had the alien impregnating a cow, not a dog.
- 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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