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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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Newt: We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly.
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Gorman: I'm coming in.
Hudson: I feel safer already.
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[Pulling out his pump-action shotgun.]
Hicks: I like to keep this handy for close encounters.
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Drake: Man, you look just like I feel.
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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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Trivia:
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- 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.
- The camo pattern worn by the marines is actually called "frog and leaf" and its use and production has been discontinued.
- 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.
- Hicks was originally played by James Remar, but Michael Biehn replaced him a few days after principal photography began, due to "artistic differences" between Remar and director James Cameron.
- 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.
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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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