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Alien: Resurrection
Hell Gives Birth
( Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller )


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MPAA Rating:
R
[language]

US Runtime: 109 min

Premiere Date:
Nov 06, 1997   [France]
 
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
 
Writers: Dan OBannon   [characters]   [characters]
Ronald Shusett   [characters]   [characters]
Joss Whedon   [written by]   [written by]
 
Music by John Frizzell
Jerry Goldsmith   [from "Alien"]
 
Cinematography: Darius Khondji
 
Edited by: Herv Schneid
 
Production Companys: 20th Century Fox
Brandywine Productions Ltd.
 


Special Effects:

All Effects Company
Amalgamated Dynamics
alien effects
Blue Sky/VIFX
computer generated aliens
Digiscope
digital visual effects
 
Duboi
digital visual effects
Hunter/Gratzner Industries Inc.
miniatures
Vertex International
rotoscoping
 

Miscellaneous Companies:

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
 
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
 
 

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

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$70,000,000 (USA)
Camera:
Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Color Info:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
the double-d symbol Dolby Digital / DTS
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

Quotes:

  • 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 f**king square dance!
     
  • Ripley: Does it grow?
    Dr. Gediman: Yeah. Very rapidly.
    Ripley: It's a queen.
    Dr. Gediman: How did you know that?
    Ripley: She'll breed. You'll die. Everyone in the company will die.
     
  • Annalee Call: You're a thing, a construct. They grew you in a f**king lab.
     
  • General Perez: Ellen Ripley died trying to wipe this species out. For all intents and purposes, she succeeded!
     
  • Elgyn: She is severely f**kable, isn't she?
     

Trivia:

  • The androids' names in the alien films follow a pattern-in alien, the name is Ash; in aliens it's Bishop; and the third android in alien resurrection is Call - (abc).
     
  • Leland Orser has "Crazed convulsions" when the Alien is about to burst out of his chest, similar to what his characters portrayed in Se7en and Resurrection.
     
  • The Auriga interactive computer is named "Father." In the original Alien, the computer's name was "Mother." There are even compatible scenes where people yell at Mother or Father for not responding to them.
     
  • 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.
     
  • Jean-Pierre Jeunet wanted to have a scene where a mosquito stings Ripley, then vanishes into smoke because of her acid blood. Eventually, he left the idea after the SFX team told him how much it would cost.
     


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