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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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[When the Alien "baby" emerges from the Queen's womb]
Dr. Gediman: You are... a beautiful, beautiful, little butterfly.
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Johner: What a waste of ammo. Must be a chick thing.
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Johner: I'm not a mechanic, Mr. Ironsides! Mostly I just hurt people!
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Annalee Call: You're a thing, a construct. They grew you in a fucking lab.
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Purvis: WHAT'S IN FUCKING SIDE ME!?!
Ripley: There's a monster in your chest. These guys hijacked your ship, and they sold your cryotube to this... human, and he put an alien inside of you. It's a really nasty one. And in a few hours, it's gonna burst its way through your rib cage, and you're gonna die. Any questions?
Purvis: Who are you?
Ripley: I'm the monster's mother.
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Trivia:
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- The first draft of the script contained an action sequence that took place in a garden contained within the spaceship "Auriga," with Ripley driving an electrically-powered jeep to avoid aliens attacking from all sides. This was to take place after the scene in the chapel but before the sequence where the Newborn is introduced. The sequence was cut due largely to budget constraints.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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