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Plot Summary:
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Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth. |
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Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)
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Miscellaneous Companies:
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- Argonaut Software Ltd.
- 'Atom Zone' video game
- Austin Video Services
- video assist equipment
- Bill Dance Casting
- extras casting
- Blue Sky Studios
- computer generated aliens
- Blue Sky/VIFX
- cg shell, grenade and blade sequences
- Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment Inc.
- camera cranes and dollies
- Cinesite Inc.
- digital film services
- Hunter/Gratzner Industries Inc.
- miniatures fabrication
- Inter Video
- video playback services
- Jo Anne Kane Music Services
- music preparation
- Laser Mechanisms
- laser effects
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- Ocean Video
- BRAINSTORM digital video systems
- One Step Up
- foley recording
- Pacific Title
- titles and opticals
- Pango-Pango Catering
- catering
- Scarlet Letters
- titles coordination
- Signet Soundelux Studios
- sound recording and mixing
- Sony Pictures Studios, Kim Novak Theatre
- re-recording studio
- Sony Scoring Stage
- sound recording and mixing
- The Fluorescent Company Inc.
- blue screen
- The Fluorescent Company Inc.
- ultra violet lighting
- Vertex International
- rotoscoping
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Special Effects Department:
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- All Effects Company
- Amalgamated Dynamics
- alien effects
- Blue Sky/VIFX
- computer generated aliens
- Digiscope
- digital visual effects
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- Duboi
- digital visual effects
- Hunter/Gratzner Industries Inc.
- miniatures
- Vertex International
- rotoscoping
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
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- 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA [studio]
- Long Beach, California, USA
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Tech Info:
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- Budget:
- $70,000,000
- Revenue:
- $162,000,000
- Camera:
- Panavision Cameras and Lenses
- Color Info:
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Color (Technicolor)
- Sound Mix:
 Dolby Digital / DTS
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 2.35 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Super 35
- Film Negative Format:
- 35 mm - Kodak
- Printed Film Format:
- 35 mm - anamorphic
- Film Length:
- 3054 m
- Production Dates:
- 20 Nov 1996 - May 1997
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Quotes:
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Purvis: God, I am so tired.
Johner: Sleep when you die, man.
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Annalee Call: He is breeding an alien species. More than dangerous. If those things get loose, it's gonna make the Lacerta Plague look like a fucking square dance!
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[When the Alien "baby" emerges from the Queen's womb]
Dr. Gediman: You are... a beautiful, beautiful, little butterfly.
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Annalee Call: You're a thing, a construct. They grew you in a fucking lab.
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Distephano: I thought you were dead!
Ripley: Yeah, I get that a lot.
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Trivia:
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- Nigel Phelps based the design of the spaceship "Betty" on a jackhammer. The "Auriga" was originally to be a vertical structure, but he abandoned this idea once he realized the difficulty of capturing the scope of such a ship design on film.
- Whedon originally scripted the Newborn creature as a four-legged, eyeless, bone-white creature with red veins running along the sides of its head. It had an inner jaw, similar to the all the other aliens. It also had a pair of pincers on the sides of his head. These pincers were used to hold its prey still as it drained the prey of blood with its inner jaw. The creature was also larger, nearly the size of the queen alien. In later script revisions, the creature was changed into a "more believable" hybrid of human and alien.
- Sigourney Weaver actually made the behind-the-back half-court basketball shot on her own, despite the fact that the way the ball disappears off-screen for a split second before going into the basket implies that she had off-screen help. She actually made the basketball shot on only the second take.
- Actor Ron Perlman nearly drowned while filming the underwater sequence. At one point, when trying to surface, he hit his head on a sprinkler in the ceiling, knocking him out cold. He was rescued by nearby film crew members.
- The writer's had to overcome Ripley's death in Alien 3 to allow Sigourney Weaver to return in her role. One of the original renditions of the script has Ripley waking up on the Sulaco and realizing that all the events in Alien 3 were a dream.
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