|
Plot Summary:
|
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring. |
|
Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)
|
|
|
|
| Show All Cast & Crew |
|
Miscellaneous Companies:
|
- Arkadon
- motion control
- Peerless Camera Co. Ltd.
- motion control
|
|
- Peter Aston model effects
- miniatures
|
| |
|
|
Special Effects Department:
|
- Fantasy II Film Effects
- Peerless Camera Co. Ltd.
|
|
- Stan Winston Studio
- The L.A. Effects Group
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
|
|
|
|
Tech Info:
|
- Budget:
- $18,500,000
- Revenue:
- $183,316,455
- Camera:
- Moviecam Cameras
- Color Info:
-
Color (Eastmancolor)
- Laboratory:
- Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK
|
- Aspect Ratio:
- 1.85 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Spherical
- Film Negative Format:
- 35 mm - Kodak 5294 & 5295
- Printed Film Format:
- 35 mm / 70 mm
- Shooting Dates:
- Sep 1985 - Jan 1986
-
|
|
|
Quotes:
|
-
Ripley: What do those pulse rifles fire?
Gorman: 10 millimeter explosive tip caseless. Standard light armor piercing round. Why?
-
[On whether she would return to LV-426]
Ripley: Now please leave. I am not going back, and I am... I would not be any good to you if I did.
-
Hudson: They're coming outta the walls. They're coming outta the goddamn walls!
-
[Pulling out his pump-action shotgun.]
Hicks: I like to keep this handy for close encounters.
-
Newt: We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly.
|
|
Trivia:
|
- A scene on the colony before the alien infestation was deleted from the final cut. Elements of that scene show up in later James Cameron projects. The line, "...and we always get the same answer: 'Don't ask'" was used in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The character name "Lydecker" was used in "Dark Angel".
- Ripley's (Sigourney Weaver) daughter was played by Weaver's mother.
- The mechanism used to make the face-huggers thrash about in the stasis tubes in the science lab came from one of the "flying piranhas" in one of Cameron's earlier movies Piranha Part Two: The Spawning. It took nine people to make the face-hugger work; one person for each leg and one for the tail.
- The shotgun that Hicks (Michael Biehn) pulls out in case of "close encounters" is the same weapon that Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) used in The Terminator, another James Cameron film.
- All the marines (with the exception of Hicks) use thir real life first names as their characters' first names.
|
|
Credits Fun:
|
- As the final credits fade, there is the sound of an alien egg opening.
|
|
are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation.
is a trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd.