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Aliens
This time it's war.
( Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller )


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MPAA Rating:
R
[language]

US Runtime: 137 min

Country of Origin: United States of America

Premiere Date:
Jul 18, 1986   [USA]
 
Director: James Cameron
 
Writers: James Cameron   [Screenplay]
James Cameron   [Story]
David Giler   [Story]
Walter Hill   [Story]
Dan O'Bannon   [Characters]
Ronald Shusett   [Characters]
 
Producers: Gordon Carroll   [Executive Producer]
David Giler   [Executive Producer]
Walter Hill   [Executive Producer]
Gale Anne Hurd   [Producer]
 
Cinematography: Adrian Biddle
 
Edited by: Ray Lovejoy
 
Music Composed by James Horner
 
Production Design: Peter Lamont
 
Costume Design: Emma Porteous
 
Casting by Jane Feinberg
Mike Fenton
Mary Selway
Judy Taylor
 
Production Companys: 20th Century Fox   (US)
Brandywine Productions   (US)
Brandywine Productions Ltd.
SLM Production Group   (US)
 


Plot Summary:

    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.

Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)

Sigourney Weaver
Ripley
Carrie Henn
Newt
Michael Biehn
Corporal Hicks
Paul Reiser
Burke
Lance Henriksen
Bishop
Bill Paxton
Private Hudson
William Hope
Lieutenant Gorman
Jenette Goldstein
Private Vasquez
Al Matthews
Sergeant Apone
Mark Rolston
Private Drake
 
Ricco Ross
Private Frost
Colette Hiller
Corporal Ferro
Daniel Kash
Private Spunkmeyer
Cynthia Dale Scott
Corporal Dietrich
Tip Tipping
Private Crowe
Trevor Steedman
Private Wierzbowski
Paul Maxwell
Van Leuwen
Valerie Colgan
ECA Rep
Alan Polonsky
Insurance Man
Alibe Parsons
Med Tech
 
 

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Miscellaneous Companies:

Arkadon
motion control
Peerless Camera Co. Ltd.
motion control
 
Peter Aston model effects
miniatures
 

Special Effects Department:

Fantasy II Film Effects
Peerless Camera Co. Ltd.
 
Stan Winston Studio
The L.A. Effects Group
 
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$18,500,000
Revenue:
$183,316,455
Camera:
Moviecam Cameras
Color Info:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Laboratory:
Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK
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

Quotes:

  • Ripley: These people are here to protect you. They are soldiers.
    Newt: It won't make any difference.
     
  • Ripley: What do those pulse rifles fire?
    Gorman: 10 millimeter explosive tip caseless. Standard light armor piercing round. Why?
     
  • 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!
     
  • [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.
     
  • [All doors have been welded closed against the advancing aliens.]
    Hicks: Now all we need is a deck of cards.
     

Trivia:

  • 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 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.
     
  • The M-56 smart guns and the sentry guns built for the movie were designed around German MG 42 machine guns.
     
  • Only six alien suits were used. The appearance of hundreds of aliens is simply clever editing and planning.
     
  • During the scene inside the APV preparing for battle, "El riesgo vive siempre" can be seen scrawled in white across Vasquez's armor. This is Spanish for "The risky always live"
     

Credits Fun:

  • As the final credits fade, there is the sound of an alien egg opening.
     


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