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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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Ripley: What do those pulse rifles fire?
Gorman: 10 millimeter explosive tip caseless. Standard light armor piercing round. Why?
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[Pulling out his pump-action shotgun.]
Hicks: I like to keep this handy for close encounters.
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Van Leuwin: Thank you, Officer Ripley, that will be all.
Ripley: God damn it, that's not all!! 'Cause if one of those things get down here then that will be all! And all this bullshit that you think is so important, you can kiss all that goodbye!
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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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- One of the sets was kept intact after filming. It was later used as the Axis Chemicals set for Batman.
- 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.
- Frost and Spunkmeyer mention Arcturans. In The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy series, various Arcturan species are mentioned.
- The body mounts for Vasquez's and Drake's smart guns are taken from Steadicam gear.
- 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.
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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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