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Box office. $131.1–183.3 million. Aliens is a 1986 science fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron. It is the sequel to the 1979 science fiction horror film Alien, and the second film in the Alien franchise. Set in the far future, it stars Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of an alien attack on her ship.
List of. Alien. (franchise) characters. Main cast of 1979's Alien (left to right: Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton, Sigourney Weaver, Yaphet Kotto, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright and John Hurt) Alien, a science-fiction action horror franchise, tells the story of humanity's ongoing encounters with Aliens (xenomorphs): a hostile, endoparasitoid ...
Box office. $187 million [5][6] Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. It follows a spaceship crew who investigate a derelict spaceship and are hunted by a deadly extraterrestrial creature. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver ...
The "Alien" franchise is one of the most beloved in the sci-fi genre. Here are all nine movies in the franchise, ranked. See where the latest one, "Alien: Romulus," lands on the list.
Alien is a science fiction horror and action media franchise centered on the original film series which depicts warrant officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and her battles with an extraterrestrial lifeform, commonly referred to as the Alien ("Xenomorph"), and the prequel series following the exploits of the David 8 android (Michael Fassbender) and the aliens referred to as the "Engineers".
208 cm (6 ft 10 in) Bolaji Badejo (Listen ⓘ) (23 August 1953 – 22 December 1992) was a Nigerian visual artist [1] and actor. He was known for playing the Alien in Ridley Scott 's 1979 film Alien. [2] He was 6 feet 10 inches (208 cm) tall, [2] a height which convinced Scott to cast him in the role. It is his sole acting credit.
Ripley 8. Ripleys 1–7. Ellen Louise Ripley is a fictional character and the original protagonist of the Alien film series, played by American actress Sigourney Weaver. Considered one of the greatest characters in science fiction film history, the character earned Weaver worldwide recognition, and remains her most famous role to date.
Filmed at Shepperton Studios in England, Alien was the sixth highest-grossing film of 1979, earning over $104 million worldwide. [36] Scott was involved in the 2003 restoration and re-release of the original film. In promotional interviews at the time, Scott indicated he had been in discussions to make a fifth film in the Alien franchise.