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Plot Summary:
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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. |
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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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- Arkadon
- motion control
- Peerless Camera Co. Ltd.
- motion control
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- Peter Aston model effects
- miniatures
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Special Effects Department:
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- Fantasy II Film Effects
- Peerless Camera Co. Ltd.
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- Stan Winston Studio
- The L.A. Effects Group
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
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Tech Info:
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- Budget:
- $18,500,000
- Revenue:
- $183,316,455
- Camera:
- Moviecam Cameras
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Color (Eastmancolor)
- Laboratory:
- Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK
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- 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
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Quotes:
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Ripley: These people are here to protect you. They are soldiers.
Newt: It won't make any difference.
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[Pulling out his pump-action shotgun.]
Hicks: I like to keep this handy for close encounters.
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Hicks: Hey! I know we're all in strung out shape but stay frosty and alert. We can't afford to let one of those bastards in here.
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[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.
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[All doors have been welded closed against the advancing aliens.]
Hicks: Now all we need is a deck of cards.
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Trivia:
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- The M-56 smart guns and the sentry guns built for the movie were designed around German MG 42 machine guns.
- The preparation for the actors playing Colonial Marines included two weeks' training with the S.A.S. (Special Air Service, Britain's elite anti-terrorist force) and reading Robert A. Heinlein's novel "Starship Troopers". Michael Biehn missed the training, as he was a last-minute replacement.
- "She thought they said 'illegal aliens' and signed up..." said Hudson. This line (directed towards Vasquez) was in inside joke amongst the actors. Jenette Goldstein (Vasquez) had gone to the audition thinking the film would be about illegal immigrants. She arrived with waist-long hair and lots of makeup. Everyone else was wearing military fatigues.
- None of the models or the original designs of the Narcissus (the Nostromo's shuttle) from Alien could be found, so set designers and model-makers had to reconstruct the model of the ship and the interior set from watching Alien.
- The helmets the Marines wear are modified M-1 ballistic helmets.
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Credits Fun:
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- As the final credits fade, there is the sound of an alien egg opening.
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