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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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Drake: Man, you look just like I feel.
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Hudson: They're coming outta the walls. They're coming outta the goddamn walls!
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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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Newt: We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly.
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[Pulling out his pump-action shotgun.]
Hicks: I like to keep this handy for close encounters.
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Trivia:
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- The camo pattern worn by the marines is actually called "frog and leaf" and its use and production has been discontinued.
- Al Matthews, who plays a Marine sergeant in this film, was in real life the first black Marine to be promoted to the rank of sergeant in the field during service in Vietnam.
- In both the standard and special addition VHS versions, the fifteen minute countdown at the end of the film is indeed fifteen minutes.
- The body mounts for Vasquez's and Drake's smart guns are taken from Steadicam gear.
- The APC was modeled after an airplane tug.
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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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