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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,719 (narrator) It waits in silence 2 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:23,997 and strikes without warning. 3 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:34,239 It inhabits its prey like a silent time bomb waiting to explode. 4 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:35,549 (screams) 5 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:37,555 (screams) 6 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:41,710 It is the perfect killing machine. 7 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:53,555 Released in 1979, Alien sparked a science-fiction revolution. 8 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:59,991 It gave us the screen's first bone fide female action hero. 9 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:01,992 Get away from her, you bitch! 10 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:05,630 And helped launch the careers 11 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:07,916 of some of Hollywood's most noted directors. 12 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,230 Now go behind the scenes 13 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,359 of one of the world's most popular and profitable science-fiction franchises, 14 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,557 and witness the evolution of the Alien saga. 15 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,152 Alien began in the mind of Dan O'Bannon, 16 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:49,951 a filmmaker whose 1973 science-fiction comedy Dark Star 17 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,073 had achieved a modest degree of notoriety. 18 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:58,155 In 1975, O'Bannon was hired to oversee the special-effects development 19 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,438 on a proposed French film production of Dune, 20 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,319 based on Frank Herbert's classic novel. 21 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,279 While working on visual design concepts, 22 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,795 O'Bannon was introduced to the disturbing work 23 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,713 of Swiss artist HR. Giger. 24 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:20,357 (O'Bannon) Over in Pans, I had met a Swiss artist named Hans Giger. 25 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:22,994 It was a revelation. 26 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:25,835 I thought to myself 27 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,833 "If somebody could get this guy to design a monster movie," 28 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,799 "it would be like nothing anyone ever saw." 29 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:39,234 (narrator) Unfortunately, neither Giger's nor O'Bannon's visions for Dune 30 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:40,879 would be realized. 31 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,839 The production was shut down for lack of funding. 32 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,911 (O'Bannon) Dune fell through with great abruptness, 33 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:51,393 and I ended up back in L.A. with no money, no car, all my belongings in storage. 34 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,440 And Ron Shusett was good enough to take me in 35 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:57,318 and let me live on his couch 36 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:02,395 (narrator) Ron Shusett was also a young aspiring screenwriter. 37 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:04,198 He and O'Bannon quickly realized 38 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:09,031 that they might stand a better chance of setting a script if they worked together. 39 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,512 In search of the perfect story, they catalogued their ideas 40 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,354 before settling on a partially completed screenplay 41 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,477 that O'Bannon had been working on. 42 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,718 (O'Bannon) It was the flip side of Dark Star-instead of funny, scary. 43 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:24,594 When you make a comedy and they don't laugh, 44 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,036 it's pretty devastating. 45 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:28,679 And I thought 46 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,356 "Well, if I can't make them laugh, maybe I can make 'em scream." 47 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,670 Inspired in part by HR. Giger's designs, 48 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:42,311 O'Bannon's screenplay told the tale of a small group of space travelers 49 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,836 who are menaced by an alien monster on board their ship. 50 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,994 The plot was similar to dozens of other science-fiction films. 51 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,915 But O'Bannon and Shusett felt their concept for the creature 52 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:56,514 would make the film unique. 53 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,916 (O'Bannon) The hardest part of figuring out the script 54 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:03,790 was figuring out exactly what the creature was and how it worked. 55 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,430 And I finally decided to move in the direction of parasites 56 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,034 as they function here on Earth. 57 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:10,235 They're this for a while, 58 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,198 then they jump on your dog and they burrow in 59 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:14,192 and they become something else for a while, 60 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:15,839 and then they jump out of your dog. 61 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,278 We started talking, and he said "Yeah, it could go on his face." 62 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,279 "It could be a creature..." We didn't know what the monster looked like. 63 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,192 "A little creature, and it jumps on his face." 64 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,679 And I said "Somehow the monster has to plant a seed in him." 65 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,436 ”But nobody will know that till it comes bursting out of his chest." 66 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,558 "Oh, my God, I think we've got it. We've got the whole movie." 67 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:40,353 "Nobody’s ever seen anything like this." 68 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,794 And it wrote itself. Within three weeks, we had the story structure completed, 69 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,355 and it took us another three months to do the script. 70 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:52,117 (narrator) Ultimately, O'Bannon and Shusett named their story Alien. 71 00:04:52,280 --> 00:04:56,069 They also hired designer Ron Cobb to prepare concept drawings 72 00:04:56,280 --> 00:04:59,159 in an effort to sell the idea to Hollywood. 73 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,436 Armed with sketches and script, 74 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:05,912 the writers pitched their story to executives at 20th Century Fox. 75 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:10,159 But the studio promptly rejected it as being too violent. 76 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:14,558 In fact, the only person who showed any interest at all in the project 77 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,473 was B-movie king Roger Corman. 78 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,280 (Shusett) We sent it over to him. He loved it and said "I'll make the movie." 79 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:24,035 So we were gonna sign a contract with him to make it for $750,000. 80 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:26,831 But just before the contract was signed, 81 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,476 an old film-school friend of O'Bannon's offered to take Alien 82 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,992 and pass it on to Brandy wine Productions, an independent film company 83 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:40,997 owned by filmmakers Walter Hill, Gordon Carroll and David Giler. 84 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,549 Everybody's heard about scripts that came through the window 85 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:45,558 This one literally came through the window. 86 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:50,191 Somebody gave O'Bannon and Shusett's script of Alien through the window to... 87 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,994 Walter's desk was on an alley. 88 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,510 Walter read it and said 89 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,150 "Maybe I'm crazy, but it's got one really great scene in it." 90 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,312 "I think that we maybe should consider this one." 91 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:06,596 It was the chestburster. It was the thing that comes out of its chest 92 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,639 This scene, this one scene, is just so incredible 93 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:13,916 that it makes it worth it to do the movie. 94 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,797 In the winter of 1976, Brandy wine optioned the script for Alien 95 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,715 and once again pitched it to executives at 20th Century Fox. 96 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:24,473 Fox, they took us to lunch and said 97 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:26,916 "This is not the kind of thing we expected from you guys." 98 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,037 "We know this script, and we've seen it before." 99 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,516 You know, we later found out everybody had seen it before. 100 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:37,278 Undaunted, Hill and Giler began a massive rewrite of the project. 101 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,637 Two weeks tater, they resubmitted the script to Fox. 102 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,519 This time, the executives loved it. 103 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,350 Studio chief Alan Ladd Jr. was ready to move forward, 104 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:49,198 but only if something could be done 105 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,751 to spice up the Seeding rote of Astronaut Ripley. 106 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,629 (Ladd) Women in jeopardy is lot more frightening than men in jeopardy, I think. 107 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:01,237 I said "Let's change the male lead to a female lead." 108 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,238 It was originally written for a male. 109 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:07,109 But we had an asterisk on the front - the title page - and it said 110 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:10,272 "Any of the roles can be changed so there could be two women 111 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:11,754 to give it a broader appeal." 112 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,673 So we really just had a secretary change "he" to "she" 113 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,400 and didn't do anything different. 114 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:20,791 That is how Ripley got to be a woman. 115 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:25,955 (narrator) Envisioning Alien as a small $4.5 million film, 116 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,595 Fox sent the script to Ridley Scott, 117 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,519 a prolific commercial director from England. 118 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,478 Scottie first feature film, a period piece entitled The Duellists, 119 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,395 had just been released and was earning great critical acclaim 120 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,349 for creating a striking visual style on a low budget. 121 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,160 I think I was the right director to do science fiction 122 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:52,190 because I didn't know much about it, and therefore I didn't believe in it. 123 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,751 But I was intrigued enough by the dynamics of the story, 124 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,840 of the script - the outrageous dynamics of the script - 125 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,197 to say "I think I can do something with this." 126 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,119 So I went home and sat at home for three weeks 127 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,033 and story boarded the whole film. 128 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:11,199 And then they saw the board 129 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,069 and saw the additions that I wanted to put into it, 130 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:16,634 figured that we couldn't afford it, 131 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,599 so, what they did is they presented the board to the studio 132 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,034 and we doubled the budget. 133 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,199 With Scott on board 134 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:27,558 and the budget now increased to $8.5 million, 135 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,950 the next challenge was casting. 136 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:31,753 For the pivotal role of Ripley, 137 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:37,313 the studio briefly considered hiring an established female star like Meryl Streep, 138 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:41,030 Katharine Ross or Geneviève Bujold. 139 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,679 But the recent release of 20th Century Fox's Star Wars 140 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:50,277 had proven that big names weren't always necessary to make big money. 141 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:55,472 Everyone thought the same strategy should also apply to Alien. 142 00:08:55,640 --> 00:09:00,760 So the studio launched a massive search for an unknown actress to star in the film. 143 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,230 Eventually, the choice was narrowed down 144 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,437 to a young New York theater actress 145 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,878 whose mos! notable film experience had been a six-second walk-on 146 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,111 in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. 147 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,432 (Weaver) I had heard it was a science-fiction movie, 148 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:17,989 and I wasn't that interested, I have to say. 149 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:19,992 I didn't really wanna make movies. 150 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,391 I wanted to work with, like, Mike Nichols 151 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:25,597 and Woody Allen on movies, and that was about it. 152 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:27,319 So I almost didn't go the audition. 153 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:29,360 Luckily, I went over. 154 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:33,195 I was wearing these very high hooker boots, I remember, cos I really didn't... 155 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,193 I didn't think it mattered how tall I was. 156 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,237 Usually I tried to appear more petite. 157 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,311 Ironically, Sigourney Weaver had little in common 158 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,199 with the blue-collar character of Ripley. 159 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,751 The daughter of former NBC chief Pat Weaver, 160 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:53,471 Sigourney had grown up on the fashionable Upper East Side of New York City. 161 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:55,398 Needing to be convinced, 162 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:58,791 Fox executives ordered these rarely seen screen tests... 163 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,476 - (man) Ashen. » "which Ridley Scott filmed in London. 164 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:04,677 (Weaver) They decided to test me. 165 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:07,275 And Ridley Scott, who'd only done one film, 166 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,511 I think he felt like they were testing him as well. 167 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,909 - (man) One, take four, scene second part. - (man 2) And achoo. 168 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,038 (Weaver) So he built this whole incredible set for me. 169 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,919 I mean, it wasn't like I had to do it with a potted palm or anything. 170 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,152 It was this beautiful set that I ran through. 171 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:30,875 We did a couple of scenes. 172 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,914 (Hesse-ft) What's happening with those repairs? 173 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:35,713 They'll be finished in an hour. 174 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:41,593 Look, I need some relief. 175 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,431 Why did you wait until now'? 176 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,792 You keep staring out at that thing long enough 177 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,236 they'll be peeling you off the walls. 178 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:50,993 - We're the new... - I've seen it nap pen. 179 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,669 We're the new pioneers, Ripley. 180 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:57,196 We even get to have our own special diseases. 181 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,636 I'm tired of talking. 182 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,314 You waited too Mung. 183 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,430 Give it a try anyway. 184 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:08,234 (man) cm. 185 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,835 (Giler) Alan Ladd watched the screen test 186 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,152 and had all the secretaries in the building come down and watch ll, 187 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:16,675 and then everybody asked... They got into a big argument - 188 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:18,831 did she look more like Jane Fonda or Faye Dunaway - 189 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,752 and, you know, all the rest of this stuff. 190 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,515 And he just said "You can have her. She's in." 191 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,031 (narrator) With the leading role filled, 192 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:35,474 filming began on July the 5th, 1978, at Shepperton Studios outside London. 193 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:37,919 To round out the cast, 194 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,311 Scott assembled a team of established veteran actors, 195 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:45,878 including Tom Skerritt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, 196 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:51,035 Harry Dean Stanton, Veronica Cartwright and John Hurt. 197 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,311 But despite the breadth and experience of the cast, 198 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,359 Fox was still taking a gamble on Alien. 199 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,640 The film was still very much a B movie - 200 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,515 a B movie with a large budget, 201 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:09,670 an unproven director, and an unknown star. 202 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:28,111 As the crew of the mining ship Nostromo lies in hypersleep, 203 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:32,672 the peaceful silence aboard the ship is broken by a distress signal. 204 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:42,472 Within seconds, the ship's computer, nicknamed Mother, wakes the crew. 205 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,840 (man) Sixty-five, take six. 206 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:48,835 (man 2) Careful. Watch the wafting. 207 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,320 And cue John. 208 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:52,158 (man 3) Action, John. 209 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,914 (narrator) On top of all the technical and design issues 210 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:59,517 that Ridley Scott would have to face in putting together a production like Alien, 211 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:04,800 these early scenes presented the director with one of his biggest challenges - 212 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:09,033 working with a very independent ensemble of actors. 213 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,589 (Weaver) I don't think that Ridley quite knew what to do with us. 214 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:15,469 I would say that there were a lot of big personalities in the cast 215 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:16,994 and different acting styles. 216 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:20,278 - Still with us, Brett'? - Right. 217 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,910 - (Kane) I feel dead. - Anybody ever tell you you look dead? 218 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:25,354 (laughing) 219 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:26,635 (Weaver) We did not rehearse, 220 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,155 because he wasn't really sure how to get us to rehearse. 221 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,709 So we actually rehearsed a lot on film. 222 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:34,679 It was probably the most chaotic film I've ever done. 223 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:36,638 People were improvising all over the place, 224 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:38,791 and people were quite disconnected from each other, 225 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,399 which maybe worked for the movie. 226 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:42,557 (Parker) I think we ought to discuss the bonus situation. 227 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:45,872 Brett and I think we deserve full shares. 228 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:50,830 Mr Parker and I feel the bonus situation has never been equitable. 229 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,118 You get what you're contracted for, like everybody else. 230 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:59,432 (Skerritt) Ridley's one directorial comment that I recall was, 231 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,989 he was looking through the camera and he looked up 232 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:05,676 and he kind of winced his eyes, and he goes 233 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:08,517 "Interesting 234 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:15,912 That was his only directorial comment that I recall - 'Write-resting." 235 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:19,596 He was so visual that he sort of took refuge behind the camera. 236 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:23,276 He actually operated the camera, he and Derek Vanlint. 237 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,592 Mother's interrupted the course of our journey. 238 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:27,830 Why? 239 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,755 She's programmed to do that should certain conditions arise. They have. 240 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:32,955 (Ripley) Like what'? 241 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:37,318 It seems she has intercepted a transmission of unknown origin. 242 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,472 - She got us up to check it out. - A transmission? Out here'? 243 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:41,675 (Dallas) Yeah. 244 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:43,433 What kind of a transmission? 245 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:47,195 Acoustical beacon that repeats at intervals of 12 seconds. 246 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,152 - SOS'? - I don't know. 247 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,039 - Human? - Unknown. 248 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,880 These were really good actors. 249 00:14:55,480 --> 00:15:00,475 And there wasn't really a lot of depth in any one of these characters as written. 250 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:02,711 It was just a matter of interacting with one another. 251 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,714 There is a clause which states "Any systematised transmission 252 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:09,793 indicating intelligent origin roust be investigated...” 253 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:11,633 - (Parker) I don't wanna hear it. - We don't know... 254 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:12,835 I wanna go home and party. 255 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:14,798 Will you just listen to the man? 256 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,197 People always used to complain that it was a little under-characterized, 257 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:22,234 which I absolutely 100 percent disagree with, because first of all: 258 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,478 what we were doing was a certain kind of film with a certain kind of dynamic. 259 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:29,476 Didn't wanna spend scenes on characters, 260 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:31,717 you know, talking about what it's like back home 261 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,156 and how much they miss the kids. 262 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,039 Money's safe. Let's take her down. 263 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,357 (Lambert) What the hell are we doing out here? 264 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:45,273 - That's not our system. - I know that 265 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,274 Ridley wanted that idea of truckers in space. 266 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:53,434 That we had been up there, and basically what we were, were truckers. 267 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:55,637 (man) Thirty-four, take three. 268 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,877 - (man 2) Turbulence. - (man 3) Turbulence. 269 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:01,633 - One kilometre on ascension - (man 4) And achoo. 270 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,475 (narrator) These scenes of the crew Sanding on the alien planet 271 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,916 were among the first shot for the film. 272 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:14,514 To make the spaceship and planet's surface appear larger, 273 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:19,834 Ridley Scott used a simple yet ingenious device: children. 274 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,594 Two of my sons - who were then 8 and 11 - 275 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,832 and another kid, we built three tiny spacesuits. 276 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,311 So when they come down on the elevator and get off, 277 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:31,596 I over cranked so they wouldn't look like children, 278 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,637 so they looked like big lumbering adults. 279 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:38,637 And so the set was twice the size, twice as big. 280 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:52,354 (narrator) The spacesuits, designed by famed science-fiction illustrator Moebius, 281 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:54,597 had a heavy, well-worn look, 282 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,111 fitting in with the more realistic truckers-in-space design 283 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,556 that Scott wanted to achieve. 284 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:02,472 (Cartwright) They must have weighed 75 pounds, 285 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:05,393 and we were supposed to have little air-conditioner things in there. 286 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:10,111 Well, they forgot to put the escape hole, so we were passing out like flies. 287 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,515 And when you've got all the stuff on you, you can't get it off. 288 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:16,950 You can't do anything cos of these hockey gloves. 289 00:17:17,120 --> 00:17:19,236 I mean, it was very strenuous. 290 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:24,758 But there was an even more daunting design challenge than the spacesuits - 291 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:27,309 the alien planet itself. 292 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:30,916 For that, Scott turned to the man whose dark visions 293 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,516 had originally inspired Dan O'Bannon to write the script - 294 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,198 HR. Giger. 295 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:42,479 (Scott) I met with Dan O'Bannon, and he dug out Giger's books. 296 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,235 Said "What do you think of this?" I said "My God, that's it." 297 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,313 Scott was captivated by the disturbing images 298 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:54,435 that Giger himself had categorized as "bio mechanical an." 299 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,193 (Giger) Biomechanical art, yes. 300 00:17:56,360 --> 00:17:59,352 That's an expression I used 301 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,912 for my first portfolio, which came out in '69. 302 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:10,238 They are a mixture - biological figures in mechanical environments 303 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:13,319 from the 19th century, a little bit. 304 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,992 After a creative meeting with Scott in Zurich, 305 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:23,630 Giger arrived in England in May of 1978 306 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:28,078 and was put in charge of designing everything that concerned the alien creature 307 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,151 and the planet environment. 308 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:34,638 For inspiration, Scott focused the artist on one particular painting 309 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,872 that had captivated him: Necronom IV. 310 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,873 (Scott) It was kind of an Egyptian panel of a creature 311 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,795 who looked part humanoid but definitely an alien. 312 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:49,318 I was just so knocked out by the whole elegance. 313 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,474 It was also a very disturbing image. 314 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:57,520 And we chose that style 315 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,156 for the alien's environment. 316 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:12,475 - (Dallas) Ash, can you see this'? - (Ash) I can. 317 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:15,517 (Shusett) Giger's work was sexual 318 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,035 and that's the most mild thing you could say about it. 319 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,197 The opening of the alien ship 320 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:23,671 looks like two giant vaginas on a 60-foot set. 321 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:25,877 We built that set. It wasn't a miniature. 322 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:27,912 Everyone goes "Oh, my God.' 323 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:33,912 (narrator) Turning Giger's sexually charged designs into three-dimensional realities 324 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:36,077 offered a unique challenge - 325 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:40,791 one that was made even more difficult by Giger's intense perfectionism. 326 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,190 Giger was very protective about his work: 327 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:47,194 and it was very difficult to persuade him to use anybody but himself. 328 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,237 We managed to get a sculptor cal led Peter Voysey, 329 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:56,276 and Voysey and he hit it off, so Giger trusted a lot of his stuff to Voysey. 330 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,078 So Giger then would do a drawing - 331 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,635 a big, big, big drawing with always an airbrush - 332 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,915 and Voysey would take the drawing and then go off to make it. 333 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,753 (narrator) One of the largest and most visually impressive sets 334 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,754 built for the production was the spaceship interior. 335 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,879 It contained what appeared to be the remains of a dead creature, 336 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,829 which the production crew referred to as "the space jockey." 337 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:40,272 Working from Giger's sketch, 338 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,273 the basic outline of the space jockey was constructed 339 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,558 using a supporting steel-and-wood frame, 340 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:50,395 then shaped using ribbed tubing and plaster. 341 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,753 The jockey himself was modeled out of clay, 342 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,230 while the larger components of his chair 343 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:00,359 were comprised of Styrofoam and plastic foam molds. 344 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,437 The jockeys chamber was simultaneously constructed 345 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,718 using a wide variety of available materials. 346 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,474 It was a mixture of Plasticine and real bones, 347 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:21,000 tubes, pipes, plaster cast, different things. 348 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,993 When everything was ready, the ZS-foot-high figure was moved 349 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,676 onto a giant turntable at the center of the set. 350 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,390 This allowed Scott to save time during shooting 351 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:37,155 by simply rotating the jockey to get different camera angles. 352 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,393 Once again, Scott's children stood in 353 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:47,394 to give the set an even more impressive scale. 354 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:53,315 - (Dallas) Can you see anything? - (Kane) I don't know... A cave. 355 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,359 (narrator) The walls of the jockey set were later used 356 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:00,036 as the walls of the alien egg chamber. 357 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,479 (Kane) The pit is completely enclosed. 358 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:09,431 It's full of leathery objects, like eggs or something. 359 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:14,310 Atmosphere was added with the help of some smoke and blue laser light, 360 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,040 borrowed from the rock band The Who. 361 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:22,753 In total, 130 eggs were molded out of plaster, 362 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,350 with one egg given a rubber top 363 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,399 that was designed to open with hydraulics. 364 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:38,434 (Scott) The egg, when it opens, is what the butchers call "Nottingham lace," 365 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,029 cos it's the covering of cows' stomachs 366 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,392 I mean, you can't beat that. It looks like the real thing. It's biological. 367 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,836 And it just... There it is. It's real. 368 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,516 To complete the sequence in which the facehugger attaches itself 369 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,034 to Kane's face, 370 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:56,592 the filmmaker shot numerous takes of him peering into the open egg. 371 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,513 Then four additional shots were filmed. 372 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,597 Shot 1 showed 40 feet of pig intestine 373 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,191 being launched with a small explosive charge. 374 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:13,391 For Shot 2, an effects technician put a rubber facehugger glove on his hand, 375 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,269 wrapped it around a plastic dome placed in front of the camera lens, 376 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,791 and then quickly pulled it away. 377 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:24,238 Then the film was played in reverse. 378 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:29,156 This insert shot represents the interior of Kane's space helmet 379 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:33,194 as the creature's tube-like appendage is forced down his throat. 380 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:39,035 For the last shot, a facehugger model was attached to the actor's helmet 381 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:43,671 and numerous takes were done of him falling away from the egg. 382 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:50,674 Once edited, the sequence lasts a mere four seconds onscreen. 383 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,117 My God. 384 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,149 When Kane is brought back to the ship, 385 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:11,311 the facehugger and its ingenious physiology is revealed in more gruesome detail. 386 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:15,951 - What's it got down his throat? - (Ash) I suggest it's feeding him oxygen. 387 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:21,920 Paralyses him, puts him in a coma, then keeps him alive. 388 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:23,150 What the heH is that? 389 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:27,712 (O'Bannon) The whole thing was supposed to be about the sexual life cycle of an alien. 390 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,510 One thing that people are all disturbed about is sex. 391 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,189 Everybody is always all in a knot about sex. 392 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:36,351 I said "That's how I'm gonna attack the audience." 393 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:37,794 "I'm gonna attack them sexually." 394 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,550 "And I'm not gonna go after the women in the audience." 395 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,199 "I'm gonna attack the men." 396 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,591 "And I'm gonna put in every image I can think of 397 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,314 that I know will make the men in the audience cross their legs." 398 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,393 "Homosexual oral rape. Birth." 399 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,440 "The thing Pays its eggs down your throat." The whole number. 400 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,751 (narrator) While Giger supervised the production 401 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,594 of the full-sized alien-creature costume, 402 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:07,597 a sculptor named Roger Dicken was hired to modify Giger's initial facehugger design 403 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,559 and tum the concept into a reality. 404 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:16,231 The central part of the facehugger was sculpted in Plasticine. 405 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,192 Then a rubber mold was made. 406 00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:22,829 Eight fingers were created from another mold 407 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,351 and then given aluminum joints so they could bend 408 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,990 and fit around the sides of the actor's face. 409 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:34,313 The tail was a flexible cord covered with loam and latex. 410 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,517 It was tightened around the actor's throat 411 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,712 by simply putting on an off-screen piano wire. 412 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,355 (Dallas) It's not coming off without tearing his face off with it. 413 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:47,710 But the facehugger also had an internal design component 414 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:53,193 that is revealed when the creature mysteriously removes itself from Kane. 415 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:55,033 Kane'? Dallas? 416 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,679 (screams) 417 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,353 (Dallas) Are you OK? 418 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,753 - (Ash) I didn't see it. Was it in the overhead? - It was up there somewhere. 419 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:11,198 - My God - (Dallas) Cover the damn thing, will you? 420 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:15,957 - It's alive. - That's a reflex achoo. 421 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,950 (Scott) We created a cup for the facehugger, 422 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:21,999 and from the fishmonger's, I ordered shellfish. 423 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,990 So when he turns it over to examine it, you're really staring at oysters and clams. 424 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:28,679 They were fresh, so it didn't stink. 425 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:33,075 (narrator) Perhaps the key sequence in the entire film is this one, 426 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:37,120 in which the crew celebrates Kane's recovery from the alien attack. 427 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,351 (O'Bannon) That's the big moment. That's the kicker. 428 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,229 It's laid its eggs inside of our guy: and it comes out through the chest. 429 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,119 I said "And I'm gonna have it happen at dinner." 430 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,194 "While they're all sitting around, it's gonna land right in the middle of the food." 431 00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:53,512 Unlike the other phases of the alien's life cycle, 432 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:58,675 Giger had a difficult time conceptualizing the chest-bursting creature. 433 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,636 His first sketches looked like bloody turkeys 434 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,394 and were more comedic than terrifying. 435 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:12,793 Once again, Roger Dicken was brought in to help refine the design. 436 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,159 Using Plasticine, he constructed a sleeker, simpler creature 437 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:24,235 that could be manipulated with wires, an aluminum rod, and a hand grip. 438 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,040 It also featured arms that were eventually removed 439 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,714 at the request of Ridley Scott. 440 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:35,198 In order to ensure a surprised and terrified reaction from his actors, 441 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:40,639 Ridley Scott chose to prep the pivotal scene with only John Hurt present on the set. 442 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,757 We should've known something was gonna happen 443 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,833 because everyone was wearing raincoats on the set, 444 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:51,359 including Ron Shusett and Dan O'Bannon, who were the original writers, 445 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,431 who had come up with this chestburster concept, 446 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,830 and they were, like, over on the side: like, hee-hee-hee. 447 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,752 Like this, like it was Christmas or something. 448 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,359 They were very merry. 449 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,397 And I see Sigourney looks really scared. 450 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:03,631 I thought "Boy, she's really getting into character." 451 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,791 I said "Good, Sigourney, you're really up for this." 452 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,230 She said "No, I'm pretty scared." 453 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,195 "I know it's gonna happen live 454 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:15,079 because the cameras have cellophane over them." 455 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,794 "There's gonna be a lot of blood, isn't there?" I said: "Heh." 456 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,633 What's the matter? The food ain't that bad. 457 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,279 (Ripley) What's wrong? 458 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:22,919 (coughing) 459 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,639 This is serious. 460 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:26,711 Kane, what's wrong? 461 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,750 (Weaver) For us, it was almost as if it happened. 462 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,952 And John's work, too, the way he totally committed 463 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:37,192 and was, you know, in so much agony. 464 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,194 (screams) 465 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,159 It was like watching him be in a terrible accident 466 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:45,719 and then the creature coming out 467 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:48,835 (screams) 468 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:50,674 (Lambert sobbing) 469 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:51,910 (Lambert) Oh, God'.! 470 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,833 (Skerritt) I kind of suspected the way he was gonna do it. 471 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,913 What I didn't see, though, 472 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:03,793 was the intestines of a cow that were going to be coming out. 473 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,032 So that was fresh and delicious for me. 474 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:08,554 (screeches) 475 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,118 (Cartwright) Quite a shock, actually. 476 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,433 I mean, we were looking at this sort of gray penis. Can I say that'? 477 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,599 One seventy-five, take four. 478 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:25,711 (man) Leaning in, and turning, and action, and now. 479 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,269 (Shusett) And I remember Yaphet Kotto's wife telling me 480 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,637 for two weeks after that, he came home and he had the creeps. 481 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,156 - (Ash) Don't touch it! - (man 2) Two. 482 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,478 (Shusett) He would sit in a room for a couple of hours 483 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:39,755 before he'd talk to anybody. 484 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:40,955 (man 3) Cut it. 485 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,555 That was the moment they were so into this movie 486 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,472 that they were scared. 487 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,950 They knew this just wasn't some schlock movie. 488 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:49,918 This was gonna scare the hell out of anybody. 489 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,319 (Brett) This is just an ordinary prod, like a cat tie prod. 490 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,358 It shouldn't damage the bastard unless its skin is thinner than ours 491 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:05,150 But it will give him a little incentive. 492 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,233 Now we just have to find him. 493 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:15,312 (narrator) Deck by deck, the hunt for the alien begins aboard the Nostromo. 494 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,797 To design the interior of the ship, 495 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:24,359 Scott instructed concept artist Ron Cobb and production designer Michael Seymour 496 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,431 to come up with something that would be different 497 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,712 from anything seen in the science-fiction genre before. 498 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,032 (Scott) We wanted to keep away from Star Wars because Star Wars was so good, 499 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,511 and we wanted to keep away from 2001 because that was so good. 500 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,712 And so we had to create our own... Find our own formula. 501 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,797 And also, we were on a kind of limited budget. 502 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,799 (Cobb) It was kind of funny. It had an industrial look from a past age 503 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,675 Even at that time, we had transistors and touch screens and all that stuff, 504 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:57,319 but none of that in Alien. 505 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,154 We went back practically to vacuum tubes, you know, 506 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,277 so actually, it was very retro technology. 507 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,158 Ridley was always saying he wanted it to look like a World War ll submarine, 508 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:08,594 you know, with the low ceilings. 509 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,320 Also, the idea that it might look like a tramp steamer 510 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,120 and that it'd be sort of grimy, and it carries ore. 511 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:20,396 He had buyers go out and buy tons and tons of RAF surplus aircraft parts. 512 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,678 (Scott) We went out and bought two old Vulcan bombers, 513 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:25,638 and they just pulled them apart for parts. 514 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,394 So the corridors became lined with aircraft parts. 515 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,870 So the process was more sculptural 516 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:35,876 You would go out and see a big bunch of machinery out of a jet engine 517 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,277 and turn that into a column or a device that you'd put on the wall. 518 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,513 Hundreds of empty television cases sitting at the back of the stage, 519 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:43,994 and you'd wonder what that's for. 520 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,390 About a day later, you'd see them all stapled to the wall 521 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:47,959 as sort of vents and things, 522 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,590 just salvaged and turned upside down, painted this weird color, 523 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,956 and they add a hose and stick it on the wall. 524 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:55,992 And you'd get the benefit of all that machining, 525 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,874 you know, that you wouldn't have to duplicate in wood or Styrofoam, 526 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:00,394 and it looked so real. 527 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:08,911 (narrator) The Nostromo set was constructed as one interconnected piece, 528 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,273 allowing the actors to move easily from room to room. 529 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,717 (Cobb) You couldn't walk through a wall ever. 530 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,998 You would have to enter a real hatch and go down all the real corridors 531 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,117 to get to wherever you were shooting that day. 532 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,157 And you saw nothing of the stage. 533 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,358 You know, everywhere you looked you would see spacecraft, spacecraft. 534 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,514 And all the lighting was practical, inside the craft like you were on location. 535 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,593 So it felt like you were on a spaceship shooting a movie, you know 536 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:34,440 It's in this locker. 537 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:35,635 In where? 538 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,239 (Cobb) And it really helped the actors 539 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:41,434 because it was very claustrophobic, and it was also very isolating. 540 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:42,870 (hisses) 541 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:48,036 - Don't let him go! - (Parker) What the heH are you doing? 542 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:49,873 It's the cat 543 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:51,553 (Parker laughs) 544 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,831 Jonesy? 545 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,070 Here, Jonesy. 546 00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:01,314 (narrator) The most frightening aspect of the film, however, was the alien monster itself. 547 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:02,515 (Brett) Here, kitty, kitty. 548 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,956 To maintain the maximum amount of tension, 549 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:09,751 Scott's plan was to reveal the creature only in short, shadowy glimpses. 550 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,871 (meowing) 551 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,031 First thing I wanted to see was something you didn't understand. 552 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:18,435 Come on, baby. 553 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:19,749 That's a kitty. 554 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,672 (Scott) So when Harry Dean Stanton goes after the cat, 555 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,111 I figured I'd just bring him in from upside down. 556 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:26,549 (hisses) 557 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:30,076 Which was basically just a tail coming down behind his back. 558 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:31,560 (Brett) Come on. 559 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:36,911 (Scott) Then the kind of jellified, almost like aspic forehead. 560 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,831 (growls) 561 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,871 Then he turns around. Then it comes up, you see the face. 562 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:52,870 (chuckles) 563 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:54,798 And then you knew you were in real trouble. 564 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,551 (screaming) 565 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:10,715 (narrator) Because the adult alien was based on HR. Giger's Necronom IV, 566 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,315 designing the creature was simple. 567 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,678 Bringing it to life, however, presented some unique challenges. 568 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,717 (Scott) We went through all sorts of weird things first, 569 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:21,553 where I got in some contortionists, 570 00:34:21,720 --> 00:34:24,280 trying to make a shape that you couldn't understand 571 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,677 by combining three bodies. 572 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,593 Then the one underneath was always staggering all over the place, 573 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,319 so then we developed to two 574 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,511 So then we developed to a midget contortionist 575 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,034 with a normal guy underneath 576 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,953 so you didn't quite know what you were looking at. 577 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,198 And then I figured that wouldn't work because we couldn't get the head on. 578 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:45,997 As Ridley Scott pondered the problem 579 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:51,439 of who or what could convincingly play Giger's alien creature, 580 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:56,271 he went to a local pub and spotted a 7-foot-tall African design student 581 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,120 named Bolaji Badejo. 582 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:03,069 I said "Why don't you pop over to him, ask him if he wants to be in movies?" 583 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,318 And the guy thought we were joking, 584 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,911 and he then worked for the next six months as the alien. 585 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,631 Bolaji was perfectly suited for Giger's ambitious design, 586 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,589 and the artist was able to literally sculpt the alien creature 587 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,398 onto the young man's body. 588 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,513 (Giger) So they made a plaster cast of him. 589 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,435 This plaster cast we had from Bolaji 590 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:31,271 then was covered with Plasticine - just a fine skin - 591 00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:34,997 and then I could just model the details in. 592 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:41,475 Once Giger's final model was completed, a rubber body suit was cast from it. 593 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:45,599 Then Carlo Rambaldi, famous for his work on King Kong 594 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,195 and Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 595 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,716 was brought in to animate the alien's head. 596 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,919 It was cast from soft polyurethane, 597 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:59,438 providing flexibility for the fleshy, moving parts of the alien's face. 598 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:05,559 Six stretched and shredded condoms doubled as tendons. 599 00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:09,111 The lips could be curled to revealed vicious teeth 600 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,271 fashioned out of polished steel. 601 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,838 Oil was rubbed into the head to give ii a sweaty, reflective shine, 602 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:22,357 and the jaws were smeared with K-Y Jelly to give them a slimy appearance. 603 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,639 (Scott) I wanted it to be insect-like, like an ant, because if you examine an ant 604 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,916 under a microscope, they're kind of elegant you know, 605 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,594 and I wanted him to be very elegant and dangerous. 606 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,069 Am I dear? I wanna get outta here. 607 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,157 (beeping) 608 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:39,799 Move! Get out of there! 609 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:40,995 (over radio) ifs moving towards you. 610 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,755 Move, Dallas! 611 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,389 Move, Dallas! Get out! 612 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,192 No, the other way! 613 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:52,630 (screeches) 614 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,475 (narrator) With budget pressures coming from the Fox home office in Los Angeles, 615 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:03,158 cast and crew soon found themselves working six and even seven days a week. 616 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,919 The grueling schedule took a heavy toll on everyone. 617 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,469 It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. 618 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,837 I mean, just physically, it was exhausting. 619 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,432 Every day, you would get squirted down with your glycerin, 620 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,513 and you felt grubby all the time. 621 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,559 And it ended up being one of the hottest summers 622 00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:26,154 they've ever had in England. 623 00:37:27,240 --> 00:37:30,995 The Alien production team choked on the heavy incense smoke 624 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,357 fit to give the film its eerie, diffused atmosphere. 625 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:36,629 In some scenes, 626 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:41,237 the strobe lights were intense enough to cause nausea in the actors. 627 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,959 The discomfort - the wet, the heat, all of that - 628 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,873 was nothing compared to what these people were actually going through, 629 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,509 so it was sort of fun: I thought, like boot camp. 630 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:57,676 Despite the difficulties, the crew was capturing some amazing scenes, 631 00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,353 including one memorable sequence 632 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:03,315 involving the Nostromo's chief science officer, Ash. 633 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:04,595 (Grunts) 634 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:05,835 (Parker) Gm her up. 635 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,957 Get her up, get her up. 636 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,673 It's a robot. Ash is a goddamn robot. 637 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:24,875 After the chestburster, 638 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,953 there was nothing we had that was as amazing, 639 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,953 but with that robot's head, we came close, and it was late in the movie. 640 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:32,554 It was like 20 minutes from the end. 641 00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:35,917 I think you needed some moment like that - as amazing - to balance it out. 642 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,359 (Ripley) Ash, can you hear me? 643 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:42,070 And that was Giler's and Hill's idea. I credit them for that extra touch of brains. 644 00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:43,833 It just took it to a new level. 645 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,559 (Ripley) Ash! 646 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,636 What was your special order? 647 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,751 You read it. I thought it was clear. 648 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:55,312 Bring back life form, priority one. 649 00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,995 Ali other priorities rescinded. 650 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,033 The damn company. What about our lives, you"? 651 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,636 I repeat, all other priorities are rescinded. 652 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:07,833 (Ripley) How do we kill it? 653 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,434 (Ash) You can't. 654 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,671 The perfect organism. 655 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,720 Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. 656 00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:17,869 You admire it. 657 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,391 I admire its purity. 658 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:22,838 Last word. 659 00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:27,437 - What? - You have my sympathies. 660 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:35,159 We're gonna blow up the ship. We'll take our chances in the shuttle. 661 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,349 (narrator) It is Ripley's confrontation with Ash 662 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,399 that signals the pivotal change in her character. 663 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,958 (computerized voice over PA) The ship will detonate in T minus ten minutes. 664 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:50,440 (Weaver) She had to really take over, 665 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,433 and I fell that she was really sort of a young ensign type 666 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:55,438 who pretty much went by the book, 667 00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,472 and that the movie was a journey 668 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:01,031 from her going from the book to pure instinct. 669 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,111 (Ripley) Where are you? 670 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:06,035 Get out of the way 671 00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,797 (alien screeching) 672 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,911 I remember talking to Ian Holm. I said "Gosh." 673 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:27,836 I said "Do you think that she thinks what she's doing is right all the time?" 674 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,880 "Do you think she's that sure of herself?" He said "Yes." 675 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,873 And I said "You know, I think she's totally winging it all the time 676 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,670 and hopes no one can tell," which, of course, was what I was doing. 677 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,078 It was basically my first film, 678 00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:50,438 and I was learning by the seat of my pants, and I guess so was Ripley. 679 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:56,633 (narrator) Finally, in October 1978, after four months of sweltering heat, 680 00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,798 suffocating smoke, and physical exhaustion, 681 00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:03,351 principal photography was completed on Alien. 682 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,952 The actors and most of the crew were sen! home. 683 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,909 But for Ridley Scott, the production was far from over. 684 00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,715 The director had yet to film the special-effects sequences, 685 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:20,198 and there were still several months of editing and post production ahead. 686 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:26,478 Relocating to Bray Studios, 687 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,871 Ridley Scot! joined his special-effects crew, 688 00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:34,637 who had spent the previous four months shooting the elaborate miniatures. 689 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:41,592 In fact, Scott scrapped most of the shots that had been filmed prior to his arrival. 690 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,719 I mean, if we start level, almost nose down, as she starts to hit the strata, 691 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,638 can you do that'? 692 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:52,920 They told him he couldn't put smoke in. There was no way he could do that. 693 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:55,953 Well, he did it. He did it fine. 694 00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:59,792 And he reshot those, and then we redid a lot of them. 695 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,509 The Nostromo, which had been painted yellow, 696 00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,478 was repainted dull gray. 697 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:11,598 Several pieces of the ship were also redesigned. 698 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,676 The miniature-builders found themselves on such a tight schedule 699 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,679 that they often used commercially available mode! kits 700 00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:20,797 from local hobby shops. 701 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,156 We were raiding plastic kit parts, 702 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,789 and as can happen of course we'd go into a model shop 703 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,396 and the first mastic kit part there was Darth Vader's TIE fighter. 704 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,550 We'd buy 50 Darth Vader TIE fighters, 705 00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:36,475 and we had the whole of the bottom of the refinery to cover. 706 00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:41,112 And so we got a staple gun and were stapling on bits of TIE fighters. 707 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,351 This is how quick it was done. 708 00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,032 (man) Take four. Ready and action. 709 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,396 Filming the miniatures was tedious work, 710 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,915 especially under Ridley Scott's meticulous watch. 711 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:57,355 Shots that lasted only seconds on-screen could take up to three days each to shoot. 712 00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:58,755 (Giler) I would watch Ridley do this. 713 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:02,151 Camera moves one frame every two seconds or something like that. 714 00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,398 And it was like watching, you know, dry-cleaning or something like that. 715 00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:06,875 (man) Take one, A camera. 716 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,270 (man 2) All right, clear the shot. Thank you. 717 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,439 While Scott filmed at Bray Studios, his editors worked on the film. 718 00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:16,749 (man) Cut it. 719 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,958 But when the first cut clocked in at well over two hours, 720 00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:25,071 the director stepped in and began to make a series of strategic trims. 721 00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:28,319 The edits heightened the tension 722 00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:33,117 by keeping the alien's screen time to an absolute minimum. 723 00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:38,558 (Ladd) That's why the alien isn't seen until one of the last shots of the movie. 724 00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:41,997 You see parts of him, but you never see him 725 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:43,873 until he's exposed at the end. 726 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:45,872 (Ripley) Oh, my God. 727 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,711 When he came out of that position, it was extraordinary. 728 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,918 It was like seeing something coming out of a Chrysalis. 729 00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:56,354 (screams) 730 00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,353 (screeching) 731 00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,590 (man) Get that hose out, Jonathan. 732 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:47,077 (narrator) But when Fox executives saw the film for the first time, 733 00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:52,189 they were unhappy with whet they felt was an excessive degree of bloodshed. 734 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,351 (screaming) 735 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,599 The Fox executives saw it, and they were appalled. 736 00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,832 It was just wall-to-wall gore and blood everywhere, 737 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,310 and, you know, it was almost pornographic. 738 00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:10,794 Bret"! 739 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:11,995 (man) Take nine. 740 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,629 (Ladd) We asked Ridley to take out all the blood. 741 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,553 Under the Hitchcock theory, it's much more frightening 742 00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:20,917 when you don't see the event, them doing the bloody thing. 743 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:22,955 (man) Action. 744 00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:28,237 Another infamous deletion from the final version is this one - 745 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:30,353 when Ripley comes upon the chamber 746 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,593 where her fellow crew mates have been cocooned alive. 747 00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:36,235 Dallas. 748 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,038 What did it do'? 749 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,919 Kill me. 750 00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,272 What. .? What did it do? 751 00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:57,349 Brett. 752 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:02,315 It just held it up, 753 00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:06,314 and when the dynamic is really running, you just don't wanna do that. 754 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,198 It's important to know when it's good enough 755 00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:10,715 and not just go on and on and on. 756 00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,154 I'll get you out of here. 757 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,755 I'll get you up to the shuttle. 758 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,800 Kill me. 759 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:26,549 What can I do? 760 00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:29,075 Kill me. 761 00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:32,870 I felt sorry for him having to sit there all day with the maggots crawling on him. 762 00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,236 We always had... We had so many maggots on the set. 763 00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:36,510 It was just vile. 764 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,557 - (man) Ready, Derek? - (man 2) Hold it. 765 00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:43,790 - I mean, wait till I move, okay? - (man 3) Yes, I will. Okay ready? Action. 766 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:47,510 It's just a matter of the job. You take the job, you do the job. 767 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,798 So it's not a matter of discomfort or anything else. 768 00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:03,871 (narrator) Alien was new a sleek and suspenseful one hour and 56 minutes. 769 00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:09,917 Yet despite the many trims, the film still received an R rating 770 00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:12,959 from the Motion Picture Association of America. 771 00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:19,070 Such a rating threatened to strip the movie of its most important audience - 772 00:47:19,240 --> 00:47:22,517 teenaged science fiction and horror fans. 773 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:31,830 In an effort to brand Alien into America's collective social consciousness, 774 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:37,632 20th Century Fox began an impressive multimillion-dollar advertising campaign. 775 00:47:45,240 --> 00:47:49,029 (Giler) This guy, Richard Greenberg: came over with the space letters, 776 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,158 with the, you know, "In space no one can hear you scream," 777 00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,118 with the egg, with everything. 778 00:47:54,720 --> 00:47:58,156 We all took a look at this and thought "No, this is great. Done: settled." 779 00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:06,118 When Alien premiered, audiences lined up around the block. 780 00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:12,950 Critics lauded the film, caning it stylish and spellbinding. 781 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:15,673 Some reviewers claimed that Alien 782 00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,070 had the horror and suspense of The Exorcist, 783 00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:21,912 the epic quality of Star Wars 784 00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:27,554 and a monster that made the shark in Jaws look like a goldfish. 785 00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,156 Somebody once put it... They said Star Wars was the Beatles 786 00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:32,953 and we were the Rolling Stones. 787 00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:36,829 We were the nasty version. Heh, heh. I always liked that description 788 00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,156 In spite of being hobbled by an R rating, 789 00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:47,838 Alien grossed over $4.7 million in its first week of release. 790 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,399 It did a lot for my career. 791 00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:53,440 They wanted me on all these magazines, and basically, I said "No, thanks." 792 00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,432 I wasn't sure how I felt about being famous. 793 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:59,389 I hadn't really anticipated that I would be on the cover of Newsweek overnight. 794 00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:01,597 I think, at the time, I was more of a control freak, 795 00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,354 and I wasn't sure what that would do to my life. 796 00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:08,433 Alien proved so popular 797 00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:12,116 that Fox quickly launched a series of toys and other merchandise 798 00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:15,557 aimed, ironically, at children and teenagers, 799 00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:19,759 a target audience technically too young to see the movie. 800 00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:25,310 One toy, however, would become infamous for its failure - 801 00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:32,517 an 18-inch action figure of the Alien monster issued by Kenner Toys. 802 00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:34,159 That toy was sold to children, 803 00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,631 who hadn't seen the film: didn't understand what it was about. 804 00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,599 Mothers were with them, going "You're not buying that, that's horrible." 805 00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:42,717 So it didn't succeed. 806 00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:50,792 Nevertheless, Alien earned the respect of the Hollywood film industry. 807 00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:53,713 It was nominated for two Academy Awards - 808 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,872 one for best art direction and set decoration 809 00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,436 and one for best visual effects, 810 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:05,390 which the Alien design team most deservedly won. 811 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:12,229 Alien went on to gross over $165 mil/ion worldwide 812 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,516 in its first theatrical release. 813 00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:18,314 A sequel seemed inevitable. 814 00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:20,596 But in June 1979, 815 00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:26,995 Alan Ladd Jr. resigned his post as head of production at 20th Century Fox. 816 00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:33,156 The future of Alien, for now, seemed in doubt. 817 00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:46,678 (narrator) For four years, producers Walter Hill and David Giler 818 00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:50,356 searched for the right person to bring Alien 2 to life. 819 00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:55,797 Their search led them to a young Canadian writer director 820 00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:57,553 named James Cameron. 821 00:50:58,400 --> 00:50:59,515 Cameron had earlier worked 822 00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:03,036 for Roger German's New World Entertainment. 823 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:07,080 There, he earned a reputation as a jack of all trades. 824 00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:12,909 By 1983, Cameron had graduated from B movies to A-list films, 825 00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:18,559 when he landed the-job writing Rambo: First Blood Part ll. 826 00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,473 Another script, entitled The Terminator, 827 00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:25,678 brought him to the attention of producer David Giler. 828 00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:29,879 We had an idea for another project that was about a gladiator tn space, 829 00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:32,190 and so we were talking to him about doing that. 830 00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,432 He knew a lot about Alien - really, a lot. 831 00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:39,110 Ridley Scott made this film that I think just stunned the world. 832 00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,352 And I was one of the people who was stunned by it when I saw it. 833 00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,239 And a few years later, when I was asked to write the second one, 834 00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,710 I saw an opportunity to make a film like that. 835 00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,514 Cameron worked out a treatment in just three days. 836 00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,798 And while he preserved the main ingredients of the first film, 837 00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,600 namely Ripley and the alien creature, 838 00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,912 he took the concept in a new direction. 839 00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,799 By setting the story on the alien planet, 840 00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,636 Cameron could give his characters an arsenal of weapons. 841 00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:13,277 He also released not one, but dozens of alien creatures. 842 00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:18,078 The first one was the haunted house This one should be the roller coaster. 843 00:52:18,240 --> 00:52:22,279 There was no point in trying to do the same kind of scary movie. 844 00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,716 He had to do a different kind of scary movie. 845 00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:29,671 Although Cameron's treatment was universally praised, 846 00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:33,037 it gathered dust at 20th Century Fox - 847 00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,033 that is, until August 1984, 848 00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:40,398 when producer Lawrence Gordon took over as head of production. 849 00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:44,840 Fox hired Cameron, fresh off the success of The Terminator, 850 00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:50,797 to write and direct Alien 2, now simply dubbed Aliens. 851 00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,672 But luring Sigourney Weaver back as Ripley 852 00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:58,435 proved a task more difficult than first imagined. 853 00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:00,674 In the years since Alien, 854 00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,912 Sigourney Weaver's career had taken off with starring roles 855 00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:09,359 in films like The Year of Living Dangerously and Ghostbusters. 856 00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:14,991 To sign her, Fox now had to pay the actress $1 million, 857 00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:20,872 a far cry from the $30,000 she had received for her performance in Alien. 858 00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:24,237 It was a fantastic sort of tour-de-force part. 859 00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:26,597 I liked Jim Cameron right away. 860 00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:29,832 We had a very good dynamic working together. 861 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,469 He was very respectful of whatever I thought, 862 00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:36,952 and Must thought his whole take on it was wonderful. 863 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:45,633 In July 1985, preproduction began at Pinewood Studios. 864 00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:51,318 There, Cameron reunited the team that made his Terminator film so successful. 865 00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:55,431 His wife, Gale Anne Hurd, would serve as producer, 866 00:53:55,880 --> 00:54:01,910 and special-effects masters Stan Winston, Robert Skotak, and Dennis Skotak 867 00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:06,557 would expand upon the original film's already impressive visuals. 868 00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:11,031 But even these loyal supporters couldn't insulate Cameron 869 00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:13,919 from problems with the British crew. 870 00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:16,390 (Weaver) I think one of the things that was difficult for Jim 871 00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:20,309 was that there was a big pro-Ridley feeling on the set 872 00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:22,232 cos we were working in England, 873 00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:26,718 and who was this upstart Canadian kid, you know? 874 00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:29,793 And he arranged several showings of Terminator 875 00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:32,839 so the crew could see, you know, I think how good he was, 876 00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:34,320 and no one ever showed up. 877 00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:43,478 Unfazed, Cameron pushed ahead. Cameras rolled in September 1985. 878 00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:48,596 I only need to know one thing where they are. 879 00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:51,639 - Go Vasquez. Kick ass. - (Vasquez) Anytime, anywhere. 880 00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:52,830 Right. Right. 881 00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:54,758 Are you finished? 882 00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:01,434 I hope you're right. I really do. 883 00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,040 The Marine ships and hardware were created 884 00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:12,876 with the help of designer Ron Cobb, a veteran of the first film. 885 00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:14,758 (Cobb) It was a Vietnam allegory. 886 00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:18,669 There were a lot of references to Vietnam in the way everything looked 887 00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:20,069 and the way people talked. 888 00:55:20,240 --> 00:55:24,279 I sure wouldn't mind gettin' some more Arcturian poontang Remember? 889 00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:29,435 - Yeah, Frost but your one was a male. - Doesn't matter when it's Arcturian 890 00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:34,033 Jim and I brought each actor in and then sat there with felt-tip 891 00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,511 and scribbled comments on their outfits, 892 00:55:37,720 --> 00:55:41,031 you know, just the way the Vietnam soldiers did 893 00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:42,838 Trust me 894 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,594 (narrator) Using the conventions of war films, 895 00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:51,390 Cameron populated his production with likeable characters. 896 00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,031 There was the soldier with false bravado. 897 00:55:54,720 --> 00:55:57,473 How do I get out of this chickenshit outfit? 898 00:55:57,640 --> 00:55:59,074 The soldier with a lot to prove. 899 00:55:59,240 --> 00:56:01,436 (man) Have you ever been mistaken for a man'? 900 00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:03,631 No. Have you? 901 00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:05,393 The unseasoned officer. 902 00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:07,790 How many drops is this for you, Lieutenant? 903 00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:09,712 38. 904 00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:12,229 Simulated. 905 00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,074 And the quiet good guy. 906 00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:18,911 We all kind of bonded, and, you know, there's something like... 907 00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:21,549 When you're young and, you know, you're walking around 908 00:56:21,720 --> 00:56:24,678 and everybody's got their pulse rifles and this armor on 909 00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,593 and their helmets and their gear and their walkie-talkies, 910 00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:29,791 and it's like being a kid -just a lot of fun. 911 00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:32,679 Ready to get it on. 912 00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:34,239 Go. 913 00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:35,953 In an effort to humanize 914 00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:38,760 and further develop the character of Ellen Ripley, 915 00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,070 Cameron made her a mother. 916 00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:47,629 Amanda Ripley-McClaren - married name, I guess - aged 66. 917 00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:49,837 And that was at the time of her death. 918 00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:53,351 I'm real sorry. 919 00:56:56,760 --> 00:57:02,233 I promised her that I'd be home for her birthday. 920 00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,992 Her 11th birthday. 921 00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:12,518 Hey. Shh. 922 00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:13,954 It's all right. 923 00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:18,279 The director also gave Ripley a young companion 924 00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:20,909 in the person of 10-year-old Newt - 925 00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:22,115 (Ripley) Don't be afraid. 926 00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:24,715 The sole survivor of the human colony. 927 00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:26,833 It was a great pleasure, I think, 928 00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:32,200 to play a woman achoo hero who has this other costs. 929 00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:34,994 For Ripley to be able to think about someone else besides herself 930 00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:38,591 and what's happened to her and everything was a great idea for the script 931 00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,434 and a great joy for Ripley. 932 00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:46,470 - Don't go. Please. - I'm gonna be right in the next room. 933 00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:51,039 I'm not gonna leave you: Newt. I mean that. 934 00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:52,520 You promise? 935 00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:57,795 - I cross my heart. - And hope to die. 936 00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:00,349 And hope to die. 937 00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:05,599 (Henriksen) Sigourney took her over. That was really her child. 938 00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:08,679 Wherever she was, Newt was. Wherever Newt was, she was. 939 00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:12,629 And always looking out for her, and Jim was looking out for her too. 940 00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:14,230 And achoo. 941 00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:18,077 (Henriksen) She was this wonder-M real innocence on the set 942 00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:22,478 They were so nice to me all the time. They would come over and play with me. 943 00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:24,677 I had my table on the side, and Pd have clay and .. 944 00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:26,717 It's kind of weird now, looking back and thinking 945 00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,878 Sigourney Weaver was sitting next to me, making clay figures. 946 00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:32,190 I had to do.. I had to go where my strengths were, 947 00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:34,670 which was in character and action. 948 00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:39,391 So I created this interesting hybrid of the suspense and horror of the first film 949 00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:41,995 and the action I brought to it. 950 00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:43,838 - Movement. - What's the position? 951 00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:47,558 Talk to me, Hudson. 952 00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:50,272 Multiple signals. They're closing. 953 00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:52,994 Unh. Aah! 954 00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:54,594 (Vasquez) Let's rock! 955 00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:57,478 - Get them out of there! - (man) Shut up! 956 00:58:57,640 --> 00:58:59,438 - Do it now! - Shut up! 957 00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:01,910 (man 2) They're coming out of the goddamn walls! 958 00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:05,556 (narrator) In Cameron's film, killing the aliens was easy. 959 00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:07,478 (man 3) Eat this. 960 00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:11,038 But killing dozens of them at a time wasn't. 961 00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:12,838 Come on, you bastards! 962 00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,230 Come on, you too. Oh, you want some of this? 963 00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:18,477 - Aah! - Hudson? 964 00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:20,438 Due to budget constraints, 965 00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:25,676 the director had to portray the alien hordes using only 12 monster costumes. 966 00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:27,319 (yelling) 967 00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:32,676 But it is the film's depiction of the human characters 968 00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:36,549 that makes Aliens more than just an exciting action film. 969 00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:38,757 I want you to put this on. 970 00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:41,391 - (Ripley) What's it for'? - It's a locator. 971 00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:44,996 Then I can find you anywhere in the complex on this. 972 00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:49,675 - Thanks. - It doesn't mean we're engaged or anything. 973 00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:53,037 Just nice little, subtle little... You know, like "I like you, you like me." 974 00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:57,234 "You know: maybe when we get rid of killing all these aliens, we'll get together." 975 00:59:57,400 --> 00:59:59,676 But that was never meant to be, I guess. 976 00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:01,951 Show me everything. 977 01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:04,676 I can handle myself. 978 01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:07,634 I noticed. 979 01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:12,154 (narrator) Although Sigourney Weaver handled her firearms 980 01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:14,636 with the steady hand of a pro, 981 01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:17,997 the weapons made the real-life gun-control advocate 982 01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:20,151 more than a little uncomfortable. 983 01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:23,790 I had to do so much shooting. I had to shoot bullets. 984 01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:30,796 And then also the flamethrower part of it, and then also a bazooka. 985 01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,992 And that was hard for me. 986 01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:40,913 I think there are other, shrewder ways of figuring things out. 987 01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:43,589 Flamethrower, fine, but... You know? 988 01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:46,072 Remember, short controlled bursts 989 01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:47,515 Eight metres. 990 01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:49,273 Can't be. That's inside the room. 991 01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:50,794 It's readin' right. Look. 992 01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:52,991 What the heH? 993 01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:57,473 Oh, my God... 994 01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:10,189 (yelling) 995 01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:14,310 (Biehn) There were a lot of dangerous setups in that movie. 996 01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:15,515 Run. 997 01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:19,071 There was a lot of fire, a lot of gunfire. There was a lot of automatic weapons 998 01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:20,958 Of course, Jim's always using full loads. 999 01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:25,317 We really kind of had to be on our toes. 1000 01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:28,438 They would have, like, these stunt guys - real stunt guys - 1001 01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:30,716 and then dummies that I'd have to incinerate. 1002 01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:36,520 I look back and I think "Jeez: they trusted me so much," because... 1003 01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:38,159 I never got it wrong, thank God, 1004 01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:41,991 but what if I'd incinerated a real stunt person? 1005 01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:43,195 They all look the same. 1006 01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:49,193 (screams) 1007 01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:52,034 ' (Newt) Ripley! ' (Ripley) Newt! 1008 01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:55,909 (narrator) For Carrie Henn, some of the stunts were downright fun. 1009 01:01:56,640 --> 01:02:01,714 In this scene, the young actress had to slide down a three-story air shaft. 1010 01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:04,117 (Henn) It took like a zillion takes to do it. 1011 01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:05,998 But it was cool cos there was a huge chute - 1012 01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:07,992 It had to have been two or three stones high - 1013 01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:09,833 and there was a huge mattress at the bottom. 1014 01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:13,829 So I kept wanting to mess up cos I kept wanting to go down the chute. 1015 01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:15,149 That was the coolest part. 1016 01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:17,311 (Newt screams) 1017 01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:20,034 Newt! No. 1018 01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:23,079 At the time: I didn't really realize how dangerous it was. 1019 01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:24,833 I actually did most of my stunts myself. 1020 01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:26,434 (screams) 1021 01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:30,710 (Cameron) Because the alien is so powerful, 1022 01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:33,110 because our weapons are SO useless against it, 1023 01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:37,191 because the differential in strength between a male and a female 1024 01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:38,634 is so inconsequential 1025 01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:41,792 compared to the differential in strength between the human and the alien, 1026 01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:43,919 it's the great leveler. 1027 01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,879 Men and women are on equal footing before the alien. 1028 01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:56,719 (narrator) Although the sinister and deadly alien eggs were featured in the first film, 1029 01:02:56,880 --> 01:03:00,271 one question was left for Cameron's script to resolve: 1030 01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:05,397 just who or what was laying those eggs. 1031 01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:09,677 The answer: the alien queen. 1032 01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:14,877 Like a queen bee, 1033 01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:20,991 she is both mother and ruler of a hive of worker and warrior aliens. 1034 01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:28,039 Based on HR. Giger's original design from the first film, 1035 01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:31,079 Cameron drew upon his special-effects experience 1036 01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:34,392 and designed the alien queen himself. 1037 01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:39,157 He came to Stan Winston's with these beautiful color renderings 1038 01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:41,880 that he himself had done of the queen alien. 1039 01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:47,430 While she looks like she is of the same family as the warrior alien 1040 01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:50,592 has a more elegant flow to her design, 1041 01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:53,878 and he extrapolated the lines of the alien 1042 01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:58,951 but expanded on them, made it more elegant and son of feminine, 1043 01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:00,599 which was a really brilliant move. 1044 01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:06,920 When built, the queen was 20 feet long and 12 fee! (all. 1045 01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:09,879 Her tail alone was nearly 10 feet long. 1046 01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:14,397 Working the suit required two men inside 1047 01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:19,993 while up to 16 puppeteers worked the muscle controls via wire. 1048 01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:24,877 (Giger) That was really great. 1049 01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:28,078 I like the queen. It's really great. 1050 01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:29,435 I thought "I mean, it can't..." 1051 01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:32,877 It would work out also without me very well. 1052 01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:41,636 The end result was a terrifying monster that even HR. Giger could appreciate. 1053 01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:47,310 And Ripley's explosive encounter with the alien queen 1054 01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:54,478 set up a climax that pushed the boundaries of special effects as never before. 1055 01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:00,071 (explosion) 1056 01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:09,751 The audience gets very wound up in an action sequence 1057 01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:12,560 where there's jeopardy to characters that they care about. 1058 01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:15,957 So you have to release that, so now you have to chill people out. 1059 01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:18,629 - You did OK. - I did? 1060 01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:20,791 Oh, yeah. 1061 01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:23,239 (Cameron) Then shock 'em again. 1062 01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:26,831 (grunting) 1063 01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:46,074 We wrapped cables around the upper and lower half of the body 1064 01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:49,949 so that as the cables were pulled, it would twist and throw. 1065 01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:57,235 (narrator) The android blood was made of milk and yogurt, 1066 01:05:57,440 --> 01:06:00,831 a sickening combination under the hot lights of a film set. 1067 01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:04,718 (Henriksen) I got sick as a dog the first day of shooting in that stuff, 1068 01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:05,915 and we had to keep going. 1069 01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:08,838 I was just dying. 1070 01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:13,551 You don't wanna hear the gory details, but I could barely, like, keep my head up. 1071 01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:18,350 In an effort to top his gripping planet-escape sequence, 1072 01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:21,034 Cameron staged the ultimate cinematic showdown: 1073 01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:23,272 Go. Move. 1074 01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:26,512 A battle to the death between Ripley and the alien queen. 1075 01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:28,114 No, here! 1076 01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:29,839 Here. 1077 01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:38,151 Cameron's eye for detail was crucial to successfully capturing the battle. 1078 01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:42,830 The director carefully story boarded the entire sequence? 1079 01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:46,516 Which required live action mixed with miniatures. 1080 01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:54,558 (Gillis) When we shot the scene with the full-scale queen alien, 1081 01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:58,714 we only shot maybe for two days, and that was for the entire sequence 1082 01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:02,069 And I remembered thinking "How's he gonna pull this together?" 1083 01:07:02,240 --> 01:07:03,958 "This is... There's just not enough stuff." 1084 01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:05,997 Get away from her, you bitch! 1085 01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:08,152 (snarling) 1086 01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:18,277 With James Cameron's careful planning and the work of puppeteer Doug Beswick, 1087 01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:22,520 the miniatures cut together flawlessly with the live-action footage. 1088 01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:23,994 Come on! 1089 01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:28,472 The fight between the power loader and the queen alien 1090 01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:31,996 is still, to me, one of the premier examples 1091 01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:37,195 of the effectiveness of editing miniatures intermixed with full-scale. 1092 01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:42,470 (screams) 1093 01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:45,673 (Ripley screams) 1094 01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:49,473 Ripley! 1095 01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:51,674 (grunting) 1096 01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:02,789 (screams) 1097 01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:08,476 (screaming) 1098 01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:13,638 (screeching) 1099 01:08:19,280 --> 01:08:25,754 (narrator) In January 1986, James Cameron began editing on Aliens. 1100 01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:30,950 But his first cut was thought to be too long by the film's executive producers. 1101 01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:34,117 Cameron began trimming. 1102 01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:36,590 He even deleted entire scenes, 1103 01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:40,594 including the sequence that referred to Ripley's daughter. 1104 01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:43,395 That was sort of the linchpin, to me, of my whole performance - 1105 01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:46,558 that she, you know, seeing this little girl: 1106 01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:51,191 doesn't really wanna get close again, be hurt again, but does anyway. 1107 01:08:51,360 --> 01:08:52,919 And we went to the premiere. 1108 01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:57,313 That whole thing had been cut out, and I was furious and so hurt 1109 01:08:57,520 --> 01:09:00,194 because, to me, that was whole point of the whole character, 1110 01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:03,359 was that she had this inside. 1111 01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:09,952 Another cutting-room casualty was this scene, 1112 01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:14,597 in which Newt's family has their first deadly encounter with the aliens. 1113 01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:16,429 What is it Dad? 1114 01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:22,753 I'm not sure. 1115 01:09:24,280 --> 01:09:27,910 Let's see if we can't get a closer look, maybe through that crack down the side. 1116 01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:32,199 - (mother) Shouldn't we call in'? - Let's wait till we know what to call it in as. 1117 01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:40,958 That's about as close as we can get. Shall we take a look inside? 1118 01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:45,551 - Bye. - (mother) Bye. 1119 01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:09,998 Timmy, they've been gone a Mung time. 1120 01:10:10,160 --> 01:10:13,869 It'll be OK, Newt. Dad knows what he's doing. 1121 01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:18,958 Mayday! This is Alpha Kilo Two Four Nine-r calling Hadley Control! 1122 01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:22,192 This is Alpha Kilo Two Four Niner. Alpha Kilo Two Four Niner calling Hadley... 1123 01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:23,794 (screams) 1124 01:10:25,440 --> 01:10:29,798 (narrator) Numerous other trims and deletions helped bring Aliens' total running time 1125 01:10:30,040 --> 01:10:33,874 to a lightning-paced two hours and 17 minutes. 1126 01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:40,677 Studio executives loved the film but felt that ii was still loo long. 1127 01:10:41,480 --> 01:10:44,233 They begged Cameron to make further cuts, 1128 01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:46,994 but this time the director held his ground, 1129 01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:51,233 insisting that any further edits would compromise his creative vision. 1130 01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:55,119 In the end, an agreement was reached. 1131 01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:58,238 The film would remain at its current running time 1132 01:10:58,440 --> 01:11:02,195 and Cameron would direct two more movies for the studio, 1133 01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:06,276 The Abyss and True Lies. 1134 01:11:10,520 --> 01:11:14,991 On July the 78th, 7986, Aliens premiered. 1135 01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:18,760 It was an immediate monster hit. 1136 01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:22,715 It was a different kind of reach on than Alien. It was more fun. 1137 01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:25,076 (whoops) 1138 01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,594 It wasn't the kind of deep terror that Alien provoked. 1139 01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:30,711 This was the roller-coaster ride 1140 01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:33,230 If a filmmaker sets out to make a terrifying experience: 1141 01:11:33,440 --> 01:11:35,590 to make the ultimate monster movie, 1142 01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:39,079 and people don't scream 1143 01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:40,833 or they don't jump when something happens, 1144 01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:42,832 then you've failed 1145 01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:46,956 So it certainly is with a sense of satisfaction that I watch people react. 1146 01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:53,629 (announcer) Aliens: This time, ifs war. 1147 01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:59,351 (narrator) Aliens grossed $10 miff ion on its opening weekend, 1148 01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:03,514 eventually grossing nearly $200 million worldwide. 1149 01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:08,475 The film was even nominated for seven Academy Awards, 1150 01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:14,231 including one for Sigourney Weaver as the year's best actress. 1151 01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:17,349 Not bad for a human. 1152 01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:20,399 Well, it was a big surprise to all of us. 1153 01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:22,916 And I'm still a bit surprised. 1154 01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:26,509 I really think it's to Jim's credit. 1155 01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:30,150 He wrote the role, and the role was a: you know, big, powerful role. 1156 01:12:30,360 --> 01:12:34,194 And I'm grateful to the Academy for putting it in 1157 01:12:34,360 --> 01:12:36,476 with all those other great performances. 1158 01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:39,632 So it was a great honor to squeak through and be nominated 1159 01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:42,749 You wanna know what I think my chances are'? Very slim. 1160 01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:47,118 (narrator) On Oscar night, Aliens claimed two awards - 1161 01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:49,237 one for best visual effects 1162 01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:52,109 and another for best sound-effects editing. 1163 01:12:55,440 --> 01:12:59,195 Alien was now a full-fledged franchise. 1164 01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:02,910 There were action figures, novelizations, 1165 01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:07,517 comic books, model kits and trading cards. 1166 01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:12,469 There was even a highly successful Alien vs. Predator comic book 1167 01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:15,154 and merchandising series. 1168 01:13:16,080 --> 01:13:18,071 Within weeks of Aliens' ref ease, 1169 01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:23,673 it was obvious to everyone another Alien sequel was inevitable. 1170 01:13:23,880 --> 01:13:26,599 The only questions that remained 1171 01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:31,152 were where, when, and how. 1172 01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:44,916 (narrator) During the four years that followed the release of Aliens, 1173 01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:50,234 20th Century Fox spent $13 miff ion on 10 different writers 1174 01:13:50,440 --> 01:13:54,195 in an effort to put a fresh spin on the Alien saga. 1175 01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:55,555 There was a script at one point 1176 01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:58,951 that had 20 power loaders fighting 20 queen aliens, 1177 01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:00,918 and that would have been a $200 million movie, 1178 01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:02,912 and it was just not doable. 1179 01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:07,156 Studio executives finally thought they had found the right idea 1180 01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:11,200 in a story by Vincent Ward and John Fasano. 1181 01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:14,398 Their script, set in a space monastery, 1182 01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:19,515 tried to recapture the claustrophobic terror of the first Alien film. 1183 01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:22,354 I think the alien attacked one of the monks 1184 01:14:22,520 --> 01:14:24,511 as he was sitting on the toilet or something - 1185 01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:27,957 sort of every person's nightmare if they're gonna think about Alien. 1186 01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:29,997 I thought it had a good setting. 1187 01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:32,390 The monastery-in-space thing was cool, I thought. 1188 01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:34,233 But white Fox had a script, 1189 01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:38,439 luring back Sigourney Weaver proved more difficult. 1190 01:14:39,920 --> 01:14:41,433 Following her success in Aliens, 1191 01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:45,389 Weaver had been nominated for two more Academy Awards - 1192 01:14:45,560 --> 01:14:47,631 one for her performance in Working Girl 1193 01:14:47,800 --> 01:14:51,475 and the other for her portrayal of naturalist Dian Fossey 1194 01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:53,631 in Gorillas in the Mist. 1195 01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:56,116 The actress now wanted more than money. 1196 01:14:56,280 --> 01:14:58,271 She wanted creative control. 1197 01:14:58,480 --> 01:15:03,031 Fox readily agreed and hired her as a co-producer of the film. 1198 01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:09,398 Production was scheduled to begin in October of 7 990 at Pinewood Studios, 1199 01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:11,312 with a $50 million budget 1200 01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:15,992 and with relative newcomer David Fincher hired to direct. 1201 01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:18,800 Fincher was known for crafting music videos 1202 01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:22,152 for stars like Paula Abdul, 1203 01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:24,960 Aerosmith and Madonna. 1204 01:15:25,440 --> 01:15:28,831 He had never before directed a feature film. 1205 01:15:29,040 --> 01:15:32,556 But even before one frame of film was exposed, 1206 01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:35,473 production problems began to surface. 1207 01:15:35,640 --> 01:15:38,359 (Giler) David and I and this writer went to London. 1208 01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:42,798 We got a draft of the script, and everybody said they weren't gonna do it. 1209 01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:44,155 By now, we were building sets, 1210 01:15:44,320 --> 01:15:48,154 and there had been a considerable amount of money invested in it. 1211 01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:53,199 The production essentially shutdown while the script was being finished, 1212 01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:55,994 so we were kind of there, you know? 1213 01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:57,873 What do we work on? What do we do, you know? 1214 01:15:58,040 --> 01:15:59,553 We can't lose the crew. 1215 01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:02,791 (narrator) With the crews still on the payroll, 1216 01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:08,433 producers Walter Hill and David Giler stepped in to rewrite the script. 1217 01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:11,752 (Weaver) The tricky thing about writing a character like Ripley 1218 01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:14,639 is that one of the first instincts 1219 01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:17,519 is to write her like some kind of butch gym instructor. 1220 01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:20,360 You know, "AH right, people, let's get out." You know, like that. 1221 01:16:20,520 --> 01:16:23,478 And she's really, I think, a lot cooler than that. 1222 01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:25,870 I knew with Walter Hill and David Giler 1223 01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:28,793 that they would just write a straight character. 1224 01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:32,351 (narrator) The new script changed the story's setting from a monastery 1225 01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:37,390 to a prison colony fitted with rapists and murderers. 1226 01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:41,553 The cast was rounded out with Charles Dance... 1227 01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:43,472 I think it might be better if I left. 1228 01:16:44,480 --> 01:16:45,879 ...Pete Postlethwaite... 1229 01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:47,314 This was her idea. 1230 01:16:47,480 --> 01:16:48,515 ...Charles S. Button... 1231 01:16:48,680 --> 01:16:51,752 Quick, easy and parolees. 1232 01:16:51,920 --> 01:16:53,718 ...and Lance Henriksen. 1233 01:16:53,880 --> 01:16:56,679 Please? Trust me. 1234 01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:01,992 Although the characters of Newt and Hicks had escaped with Ripley 1235 01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:03,958 at the end of Aliens, 1236 01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:08,000 the filmmakers decided not to bring them back for the third movie. 1237 01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:16,840 I was incredibly disappointed and very hurt 1238 01:17:18,440 --> 01:17:21,592 and, you know, didn't understand why they needed to kill my character off. 1239 01:17:21,760 --> 01:17:24,798 I was really hurt by that. 1240 01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:27,793 One thing I actually loved about Fincher, you know, 1241 01:17:27,960 --> 01:17:30,474 was that he just killed everyone she was ever close to. 1242 01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:32,392 I mean, it was.. 1243 01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:37,234 It was: I thought, very appropriate in an odd way. 1244 01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:41,278 (Giler) We just felt that Sigourney coming back by herself 1245 01:17:41,440 --> 01:17:44,751 was the most powerful image that we could have for 3. 1246 01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:49,399 - Where are the others'? - They didn't make it. 1247 01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:52,520 - What? - They didn't survive. 1248 01:17:56,320 --> 01:17:58,152 I have to get to the ship. 1249 01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:00,192 Gotta get to the ship. 1250 01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:03,399 - You're in no condition for that - Wanna get me some clothes, 1251 01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:06,359 or should I go like this? 1252 01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:10,514 Given the nature of our indigenous population, I would suggest clothes. 1253 01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:13,632 (narrator) As the production began to take shape, 1254 01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:16,912 it was obvious that Fincher was infusing his movie 1255 01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:21,119 with a visual style similar to that of the first film. 1256 01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:24,636 The prison, built from the original monastery sets, 1257 01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:27,394 was moody and claustrophobic. 1258 01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:32,555 Fincher's visual direction also included a startling new look for Ripley. 1259 01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:34,313 (Weaver) What I loved about what Fincher was doing 1260 01:18:34,480 --> 01:18:38,599 was that it was so utterly different from what the other two directors had done. 1261 01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:42,759 He said "Well, how do you feel about Dam?" 1262 01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:45,878 And I thought... You know, I thought "This guy's got guts." 1263 01:18:47,160 --> 01:18:49,515 How do you like your new haircut? 1264 01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:52,072 It's OK. 1265 01:18:52,720 --> 01:18:54,711 (Henriksen) She shaved her head: but she still looked feminine. 1266 01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:57,394 She still radiated this woman. 1267 01:18:57,560 --> 01:18:59,392 She's one of the people that can shave her head 1268 01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:03,235 and still have that nice effect. 1269 01:19:05,480 --> 01:19:10,839 (narrator) As in the first film, Alien 3 had only one alien on the loose, 1270 01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:12,957 but this time in an environment 1271 01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:15,999 in which there were no conventional weapons. 1272 01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:20,757 This is a maximum-security prison 1273 01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:25,235 and you have no weapons of any kind'? 1274 01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:31,274 The script called for the creature to gestate inside an animal 1275 01:19:31,480 --> 01:19:34,313 and mutate into a hybrid of its host. 1276 01:19:34,480 --> 01:19:38,235 The theory being that in the last film, 1277 01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:41,552 the creature was essentially a bipedal creature 1278 01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:44,798 because it gestated inside of a bipedal human. 1279 01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:49,557 Originally, the filmmakers planned for the alien to hatch from an ox. 1280 01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:52,360 For this, Fincher turned to HR. Giger 1281 01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:55,831 to create fresh concept drawings for the new monster. 1282 01:19:56,000 --> 01:20:01,439 The Alien 3, that was a big disaster because... 1283 01:20:02,480 --> 01:20:05,677 I don't know, really, what happened there, 1284 01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:08,834 but they made this certain thing, and then it was stopped. 1285 01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:13,233 And I only was engaged about a month. 1286 01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:15,755 Giger's designs were groundbreaking, 1287 01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:19,919 but producers felt they strayed too far from audiences' expectations. 1288 01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:25,755 Fincher next turned to Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc., 1289 01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:27,957 a special-effects house operated 1290 01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:32,671 by former Stan Winston employees Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. 1291 01:20:32,880 --> 01:20:35,713 (man) Roll cameras. Go. 1292 01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:37,395 (Gillis) We shot it We built an ox. 1293 01:20:37,560 --> 01:20:39,597 We shot the scene of this creature coming out, 1294 01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:41,273 but I think he felt, ultimately, 1295 01:20:41,440 --> 01:20:44,558 that, you know, an ox is sort of a cumbersome animal 1296 01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:48,874 Fincher replaced the unwieldy ox with a rottweiler 1297 01:20:49,200 --> 01:20:53,831 so that the new monster could take on the canine is more vicious qualities. 1298 01:20:54,960 --> 01:20:57,952 What kind of animal would do this to a dog'? 1299 01:20:58,320 --> 01:20:59,435 (whimpering) 1300 01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:08,958 Initially, Gillie and Woodruff planned on building an alien suit onto a real animal. 1301 01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:11,396 (man) Yeah, how do you like that? 1302 01:21:11,560 --> 01:21:16,873 Ultimately, the canine-alien hybrid was played by a puppet. 1303 01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:20,753 So really what we were trying to do was to say 1304 01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:23,839 "Generally speaking, this is a four-legged alien." 1305 01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:26,514 "What would that look like if it was running on all fours?" 1306 01:21:26,680 --> 01:21:28,318 "How would it behave?" 1307 01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:34,836 - It's here! It got Clemens! - Stop this raving at once. 1308 01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:37,395 I'm telling you! It's here! 1309 01:21:37,560 --> 01:21:40,393 Aaron, get that foolish woman back to the infirmary. 1310 01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:41,994 (screaming) 1311 01:21:42,480 --> 01:21:45,313 - (man) What is that? - (man 2) Move it! 1312 01:21:51,360 --> 01:21:53,636 For close-ups of the adult alien, 1313 01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:58,033 it was Tom Woodruff Jr. himself who donned a rubber suit. 1314 01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:02,319 I've always wanted to be the guy in the monster suit. 1315 01:22:02,480 --> 01:22:03,515 (man) Action. 1316 01:22:03,680 --> 01:22:04,954 (Woodruff) Sigourney Weaver came up to me 1317 01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:07,509 during one of the shots and said "We should talk about this.” 1318 01:22:07,680 --> 01:22:10,035 "What is it that the alien's gonna be doing for this thing?" 1319 01:22:10,200 --> 01:22:11,599 It was more than just, you know, 1320 01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:14,070 "Where are you gonna be so I don't get hit by the taxi?" 1321 01:22:14,240 --> 01:22:16,675 She actually said "You gotta think of this as an acting thing." 1322 01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:18,632 And I really hadn't up till then, you know'? 1323 01:22:18,800 --> 01:22:22,919 It's a little bit of acting, but it's also getting to be a monster and all this cool stuff. 1324 01:22:26,760 --> 01:22:29,718 (narrator) As the story of Alien 3 unfolds, 1325 01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:34,397 the alien monster strikes from the shadows, killing everyone in its path. 1326 01:22:35,400 --> 01:22:37,391 (alien screeching) 1327 01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:49,958 Everyone except Ripley. 1328 01:22:54,760 --> 01:22:56,114 (screams) 1329 01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:58,671 (whimpering) 1330 01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:02,230 (Weaver) I find that such an amazing moment. 1331 01:23:02,400 --> 01:23:06,633 I think ifs the only Mme she's been that close 1332 01:23:06,800 --> 01:23:10,191 where, for some reason, she's not dead. 1333 01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:21,675 (narrator) Because the prisoners of Alien 3 have no weapons, 1334 01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:23,917 they must use themselves as bait 1335 01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:28,551 to lure the alien to a fiery death in the prison's blast furnace. 1336 01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:32,630 Come on! Come and get me, you fucker! 1337 01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:34,915 It's started. 1338 01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:38,471 With the help of computer animation and special effects, 1339 01:23:38,640 --> 01:23:40,597 Fincher was able to put a fresh spin 1340 01:23:40,760 --> 01:23:44,196 on the now-traditional alien-chase sequences. 1341 01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:45,475 There we go. 1342 01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:49,429 (man) A7 closed! 1343 01:23:54,440 --> 01:23:58,957 Over in the east wing. Door B7 safe! 1344 01:24:07,560 --> 01:24:11,030 The idea in 3 was that you were gonna be able to really see the alien. 1345 01:24:11,200 --> 01:24:14,636 And we wanted to have one where you could really see this thing. 1346 01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:21,554 Pour it! 1347 01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:26,840 (narrator) Eventually, the /one alien is trapped and killed. 1348 01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:31,836 But a new alien queen still lives inside Ripley. 1349 01:24:34,520 --> 01:24:36,113 What is it? 1350 01:24:37,400 --> 01:24:39,994 I think you've got one inside of you. 1351 01:24:42,240 --> 01:24:43,594 That's not possible. 1352 01:24:50,320 --> 01:24:51,674 We want to help. 1353 01:24:51,840 --> 01:24:53,797 What does that mean? 1354 01:24:54,280 --> 01:24:55,873 We're gonna take that out of you. 1355 01:24:56,040 --> 01:24:58,270 Let me help you. 1356 01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:02,194 What guarantee do I have, 1357 01:25:03,920 --> 01:25:06,230 once you've taken it out, 1358 01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:08,110 that you'll destroy it? 1359 01:25:09,600 --> 01:25:10,715 You have to trust me. 1360 01:25:12,160 --> 01:25:13,753 No. 1361 01:25:16,120 --> 01:25:17,269 (Bishop) Ripley! 1362 01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:20,394 Think of all we could learn from it. 1363 01:25:21,200 --> 01:25:23,589 It's the chance of a lifetime! 1364 01:25:23,760 --> 01:25:29,039 You must let me have it. It's a magnificent specimen. 1365 01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:33,919 I felt that it was important for Ripley to die in this movie. 1366 01:25:34,080 --> 01:25:38,711 This whole idea of death and self-sacrifice, 1367 01:25:39,120 --> 01:25:44,513 all of that made perfect sense in terms of the world of the film. 1368 01:25:44,680 --> 01:25:46,796 I knew that she would rather die 1369 01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:51,670 than cooperate with these bad people. 1370 01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:53,160 What are you doing? 1371 01:25:56,840 --> 01:25:59,116 No! 1372 01:26:03,520 --> 01:26:07,957 I don't know, for some reason, I felt it was a good thing to end it, 1373 01:26:08,120 --> 01:26:11,078 and great death scene. 1374 01:26:17,520 --> 01:26:19,511 (screeching) 1375 01:26:34,280 --> 01:26:35,839 (narrator) With Ripley de ad, 1376 01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:39,630 the future of the Alien franchise seemed in doubt. 1377 01:26:40,120 --> 01:26:44,671 But Fox's marketing department had more immediate concerns. 1378 01:26:44,840 --> 01:26:48,549 How do you market a film where the hero dies at the end? 1379 01:26:49,400 --> 01:26:53,553 Their answer was to make Alien 3 look like James Came-rods Aliens 1380 01:26:53,760 --> 01:26:55,751 in the film's promotional campaign. 1381 01:26:56,440 --> 01:26:58,909 The result was a series of trailers 1382 01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:02,596 for a film that audiences would never see. 1383 01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:03,795 (screams) 1384 01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:07,635 (announcer) The bitch is back. 1385 01:27:07,840 --> 01:27:09,956 No! 1386 01:27:10,720 --> 01:27:12,119 It's here! 1387 01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:16,079 (man) Run as fast as you can! 1388 01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:20,793 Ripley! 1389 01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:24,075 (announcer) Alien 3. 1390 01:27:25,320 --> 01:27:28,039 (narrator) At a final production cost of $50 million, 1391 01:27:28,200 --> 01:27:32,558 Alien 3 brought in a disappointing $55 million at the box office. 1392 01:27:33,360 --> 01:27:36,830 3 was not much liked in America. I think people were disappointed in it. 1393 01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:39,276 I don't know if it was too cold of a movie. 1394 01:27:39,440 --> 01:27:43,638 People walked out of that theater like "Oh, man." You know: 1395 01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:49,512 It was like... Probably like having a party at Attica. 1396 01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:52,877 (Gillie) From what I understand, however, in Europe and the U.K., 1397 01:27:53,040 --> 01:27:56,715 the film was much more warmly received 1398 01:27:56,880 --> 01:27:58,917 because the people were interested 1399 01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:02,277 in some of the subtext that was going on there. 1400 01:28:02,440 --> 01:28:06,832 And I think over time, it has done quite well. 1401 01:28:07,000 --> 01:28:09,514 It ended up doing as well as the rest of them: 1402 01:28:09,680 --> 01:28:11,079 but it did it in different places. 1403 01:28:12,360 --> 01:28:16,797 (narrator) Although many fans criticized Alien 3 for its downbeat ending, 1404 01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:19,236 the film was rewarded for its unique style 1405 01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:23,435 with an Oscar nomination for best visual effects of 1993. 1406 01:28:25,400 --> 01:28:26,515 Concerned that the future 1407 01:28:26,680 --> 01:28:30,150 of their once-lucrative Alien franchise was in jeopardy, 1408 01:28:30,320 --> 01:28:34,359 Fox quickly began developing another Alien script. 1409 01:28:34,520 --> 01:28:39,196 But with Ellen Ripley dead, where else could the story go? 1410 01:28:46,920 --> 01:28:52,313 (narrator) In 1993, 20th Century Fox hired 29-year-old screenwriter Jess Whedon 1411 01:28:52,480 --> 01:28:55,518 to map out a fourth Alien movie. 1412 01:28:55,680 --> 01:28:58,115 The young writer had already made a name for himself 1413 01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:02,433 creating the hit film Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 1414 01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:06,036 I wrote a treatment, and they said ”This is interesting." 1415 01:29:06,200 --> 01:29:07,679 "We'd like maybe to make this, 1416 01:29:07,840 --> 01:29:10,559 but you have to put Sigourney Weaver in it." 1417 01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:13,553 Because originally, she had been dead. 1418 01:29:13,720 --> 01:29:18,112 And so I wrote a completely new one: and that became the script. 1419 01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:24,670 In order to solve the dilemma created by Ellen Ripley's death in the previous film, 1420 01:29:24,840 --> 01:29:30,472 Whedon created a whole new character by bringing Ripley back as a clone. 1421 01:29:31,240 --> 01:29:32,310 I didn't expect to like it. 1422 01:29:32,480 --> 01:29:36,917 I expected really just to say "It's fine: go ahead and make a movie without me." 1423 01:29:37,080 --> 01:29:40,550 But I didn't realize I would be brought back from the dead against my will 1424 01:29:40,760 --> 01:29:42,159 and that they would've screwed it up 1425 01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:45,398 so that, in fact, I wasn't playing Ripley anymore, 1426 01:29:45,560 --> 01:29:48,393 I was playing some new and improved Ripley. 1427 01:29:50,520 --> 01:29:54,275 In addition to the promise offered by playing a new character, 1428 01:29:54,440 --> 01:29:58,479 Fox also lured Weaver with an $11 million paycheck 1429 01:29:58,640 --> 01:30:03,714 plus a percentage of the film's gross profits and co-producer credit. 1430 01:30:04,880 --> 01:30:06,518 Let me see the rehearsal. 1431 01:30:06,680 --> 01:30:09,320 French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1432 01:30:09,480 --> 01:30:14,953 the man behind the critically acclaimed films Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children, 1433 01:30:15,160 --> 01:30:20,280 was hired even though he had never before helmed an English-language film. 1434 01:30:20,440 --> 01:30:22,556 He didn't really speak any English at all, 1435 01:30:22,720 --> 01:30:24,791 and I thought that would be tough: you know, 1436 01:30:25,000 --> 01:30:27,355 to make a movie in someone else's language. 1437 01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:30,876 But there was something about him and he loved the Alien series, 1438 01:30:31,040 --> 01:30:36,274 and so in the end, I thought it was a very good choice. 1439 01:30:36,680 --> 01:30:40,230 Winona Ryder was cast as mechanic Annalee Call 1440 01:30:40,400 --> 01:30:45,759 in hopes that her character might help lure a fresh, young audience into theaters. 1441 01:30:46,440 --> 01:30:50,673 Rounding out the cast were a team of established character actors, 1442 01:30:50,840 --> 01:30:55,516 including Ron Per/man, Dan He day a and Brad Dourif. 1443 01:30:56,080 --> 01:30:59,277 We weren't handed a script. Nobody got a script. 1444 01:30:59,440 --> 01:31:03,195 We got, you know, one of those shot-by-shot... 1445 01:31:04,160 --> 01:31:05,230 That has dialogue in it, 1446 01:31:05,440 --> 01:31:09,149 but you basically see drawings of the frames. 1447 01:31:09,320 --> 01:31:11,357 And that was strange. 1448 01:31:11,520 --> 01:31:13,193 - (man) Take two. - Action. 1449 01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:18,676 (narrator) When Alien Resurrection began shooting in November of 1996, 1450 01:31:18,840 --> 01:31:20,717 it became the first of the Alien movies 1451 01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:24,760 to be filmed at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles. 1452 01:31:24,960 --> 01:31:27,679 (man 2) Drop your weapons or I blow his head off! 1453 01:31:27,840 --> 01:31:31,151 The soul of the piece is her process of waking up, 1454 01:31:31,320 --> 01:31:33,834 finding out she's alive, and finding out who she is 1455 01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:39,120 and if she's what she was, and if hot, is she still strictly human? 1456 01:31:39,280 --> 01:31:41,317 And so that sort of .. 1457 01:31:41,480 --> 01:31:44,836 The whole movie revolved around Ripley's problem. 1458 01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:47,560 Ellen Ripley died 200 years ago. 1459 01:31:48,960 --> 01:31:50,155 You're mother. 1460 01:31:52,360 --> 01:31:53,509 I'm not her'? 1461 01:31:55,000 --> 01:31:56,070 (sighs) 1462 01:31:57,600 --> 01:32:01,514 - Who am I? - You're a thing, a construct. 1463 01:32:01,680 --> 01:32:04,115 They grew you in a lab. 1464 01:32:04,600 --> 01:32:06,432 And now they brought it out of you. 1465 01:32:07,480 --> 01:32:09,198 Not all the way out. 1466 01:32:09,520 --> 01:32:14,310 I felt that she should kind of be as if someone had put, you know, 1467 01:32:14,480 --> 01:32:16,869 like, super-octane gas inside of her. 1468 01:32:20,920 --> 01:32:22,911 (grunting) 1469 01:32:31,720 --> 01:32:34,997 (narrator) To show off Ripley's new found dexterity and strength, 1470 01:32:35,160 --> 01:32:36,798 Joss Whedon devised a scene 1471 01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:40,834 in which the genetic a fly engineered character confronts the smugglers. 1472 01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:43,113 (grunting) 1473 01:32:54,240 --> 01:32:57,312 The scene was to end with Ripley making a half-com shot 1474 01:32:57,520 --> 01:32:59,557 with her back to the basket - 1475 01:32:59,720 --> 01:33:02,678 a shot Sigourney Weaver wanted to make herself 1476 01:33:02,840 --> 01:33:05,912 without the aid of camera tricks and special effects. 1477 01:33:06,080 --> 01:33:09,994 Well, we try and we try and we try, 1478 01:33:10,840 --> 01:33:13,434 and there is just no way that this basketball 1479 01:33:13,640 --> 01:33:16,871 is gonna go anywhere near to in the basket. 1480 01:33:17,280 --> 01:33:19,669 After nearly a full day of shooting, 1481 01:33:19,840 --> 01:33:23,799 Jeunet told Weaver she had one more chance to make the shot. 1482 01:33:32,080 --> 01:33:35,152 You know, the crew just exploded with cheers and screams, 1483 01:33:35,320 --> 01:33:39,518 and to my absolute astonishment you know, I had gotten a basket. 1484 01:33:39,680 --> 01:33:41,079 You know, it was just swish. 1485 01:33:43,840 --> 01:33:45,877 Something of a predator, isn't she? 1486 01:33:46,040 --> 01:33:49,158 Yes, she continues to make us all very proud. 1487 01:33:49,320 --> 01:33:52,472 Jean-Pierre said "Well, yes, but you know, it left the frame for a second, 1488 01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:54,273 so no one will think you got the basket." 1489 01:33:54,440 --> 01:33:55,589 And I said "Yes, they will 1490 01:33:55,760 --> 01:33:59,435 because I'm gonna tell everybody lever meet that I got this basket." 1491 01:34:00,600 --> 01:34:03,513 (narrator) Of course, Ellen Ripley wasn't the only character in the film 1492 01:34:03,680 --> 01:34:06,194 to be affected by the genetic engineering. 1493 01:34:06,840 --> 01:34:12,153 The aliens are now more vicious and cunning than ever before. 1494 01:34:12,360 --> 01:34:14,351 (screeching) 1495 01:34:39,920 --> 01:34:44,551 What we wanted to do was to make the creature look more ferocious 1496 01:34:44,720 --> 01:34:45,755 and more aggressive. 1497 01:34:45,920 --> 01:34:49,197 We really sloped the forehead back and moved the chin forward 1498 01:34:49,400 --> 01:34:50,720 so they look more evil. 1499 01:34:50,880 --> 01:34:53,030 (roars) 1500 01:34:53,440 --> 01:34:56,114 We gave it the triple-jointed leg 1501 01:34:56,280 --> 01:34:59,671 but also a tail with a sort of blade-like structure to it 1502 01:34:59,880 --> 01:35:02,076 that would allow it to swim. 1503 01:35:02,280 --> 01:35:06,353 So we made a number of changes that: hopefully, you know, improved the look of it 1504 01:35:06,520 --> 01:35:11,435 without making it unrecognizable from the first film. 1505 01:35:12,880 --> 01:35:16,874 I heard you, like, ran into these things before. 1506 01:35:17,280 --> 01:35:18,315 That's right. 1507 01:35:18,720 --> 01:35:21,189 (Johner) So, like, what did you do? 1508 01:35:25,000 --> 01:35:26,673 I died. 1509 01:35:28,320 --> 01:35:31,039 (narrator) in one of the most disturbing sequences in the film, 1510 01:35:31,520 --> 01:35:34,638 Ripley confronts the horrors of her own cloning. 1511 01:35:35,280 --> 01:35:37,078 There, in front of her, 1512 01:35:37,280 --> 01:35:41,274 are the fatted efforts of the scientists to bring her back to life. 1513 01:35:41,440 --> 01:35:45,320 (Weaver) The clone situation was really amazing. 1514 01:35:45,520 --> 01:35:47,477 I love it when it can really get into science 1515 01:35:47,640 --> 01:35:52,157 and take, you know, the audience to places that we can only dream about. 1516 01:35:52,360 --> 01:35:53,998 Then I think it really works. 1517 01:35:54,400 --> 01:35:59,031 The clones were sculpted by Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. 1518 01:35:59,240 --> 01:36:01,834 from molds taken of Sigourney Weaver. 1519 01:36:02,040 --> 01:36:04,395 (Gillie) She was the one who wanted to put herself 1520 01:36:04,560 --> 01:36:06,995 into these positions as a clone 1521 01:36:07,160 --> 01:36:09,276 where she would just look absolutely horrible. 1522 01:36:12,280 --> 01:36:18,037 She has no problem getting down and dirty and slimy and grimy. 1523 01:36:29,400 --> 01:36:31,596 Kill me. 1524 01:36:33,880 --> 01:36:35,871 (crying) 1525 01:36:44,880 --> 01:36:47,713 (narrator) One of the most physically challenging moments in the movie 1526 01:36:47,880 --> 01:36:49,279 was the underwater sequence 1527 01:36:49,440 --> 01:36:53,957 for which a special 36-foot-deep tank was constructed. 1528 01:36:54,120 --> 01:36:56,270 (Gillie) Very complicated scene to shoot. 1529 01:36:56,440 --> 01:36:58,909 We must have been there for weeks. 1530 01:36:59,080 --> 01:37:02,198 There was always an issue of safety. 1531 01:37:02,360 --> 01:37:05,193 - You ready to get wet, partner? - Yeah. 1532 01:37:10,400 --> 01:37:13,358 (Weaver) Some people were able to stay down and have some air and keep going, 1533 01:37:13,520 --> 01:37:15,796 but I always had to come up. 1534 01:37:15,960 --> 01:37:19,999 So that was certainly, for me, the most frightening thing I'd ever done. 1535 01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:23,073 I mean, I've dealt with fire and explosives, and, you know, it's fine, 1536 01:37:23,240 --> 01:37:25,754 but the underwater thing was creepy. 1537 01:37:27,760 --> 01:37:30,752 (narrator) The sequence was especially frightening for Winona Ryder, 1538 01:37:30,920 --> 01:37:36,074 who had a dread fear of water after nearly drowning at age 12. 1539 01:37:36,240 --> 01:37:38,914 Although she spent weeks working on the underwater scenes 1540 01:37:39,080 --> 01:37:43,836 and training with divers, Ryder found the experience terrifying. 1541 01:37:44,520 --> 01:37:48,479 (man) Panic, panic. Cut, cut. Get 'em. 1542 01:37:49,760 --> 01:37:53,594 Safety divers were especially important for Tom Woodruff Jr., 1543 01:37:53,760 --> 01:37:56,639 who had to perform underwater in the alien suit. 1544 01:37:56,800 --> 01:38:00,316 Remember, he's blind, so we have to help him in. 1545 01:38:00,480 --> 01:38:02,596 Unable to see through the cumbersome mask 1546 01:38:02,760 --> 01:38:05,070 and burdened by the heavy costume, 1547 01:38:05,240 --> 01:38:08,790 Woodruff could not surface even in an emergency. 1548 01:38:08,960 --> 01:38:13,113 Between shots, safety divers fed the actor air, 1549 01:38:13,280 --> 01:38:15,840 but during each take, he was on his own, 1550 01:38:16,040 --> 01:38:18,714 holding his breath for up to two minutes at a time. 1551 01:38:18,880 --> 01:38:22,669 - (man) We're still rolling. - During one take, he nearly drowned. 1552 01:38:23,160 --> 01:38:26,516 (Woodruff) And the shot's over, and Pm just in the dark, I'm just waiting. 1553 01:38:26,680 --> 01:38:29,320 I have my hand up, my safety signal 1554 01:38:29,480 --> 01:38:31,835 And I'm waiting and waiting. I'm thinking 1555 01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:34,560 "I know I can hold my breath. How long can I hold my breath?" 1556 01:38:34,760 --> 01:38:38,230 And I'm just thinking of all this stuff. I'm thinking "it's taking way too long." 1557 01:38:38,400 --> 01:38:42,314 And then, finally, the safety diver's there to put the mouthpiece in. 1558 01:38:43,240 --> 01:38:47,711 (narrator) Ultimately, Woodruff's creature was augmented by digital animation 1559 01:38:47,880 --> 01:38:50,110 courtesy of Blue Sky Studios. 1560 01:38:59,640 --> 01:39:03,031 Blue Sky's animators patterned the underwater alien's movements 1561 01:39:03,200 --> 01:39:05,476 on reference footage of sea Iguanas. 1562 01:39:06,160 --> 01:39:07,594 They wanted to create the impression 1563 01:39:07,760 --> 01:39:11,958 that the alien was propelling itself forward with its tail. 1564 01:39:30,240 --> 01:39:34,120 But as ingenious as the underwater alien was, 1565 01:39:34,280 --> 01:39:39,116 Jeunet's most notable contribution to the alien's onscreen evolution 1566 01:39:39,320 --> 01:39:44,030 was the sequence in which Ripley and her alien-queen counterpart 1567 01:39:44,200 --> 01:39:47,113 share the birth of the new alien child. 1568 01:39:47,280 --> 01:39:48,600 (screeching) 1569 01:39:52,200 --> 01:39:54,032 (roars) 1570 01:39:54,200 --> 01:39:56,476 Half human, half alien, 1571 01:39:56,640 --> 01:40:01,589 the mutant child is a fearsome and loathsome creature to behold. 1572 01:40:09,160 --> 01:40:13,711 (Weaver) I felt because they have this bond - sort of mother-child whatever - 1573 01:40:13,880 --> 01:40:17,669 that there would be this immense tenderness between them 1574 01:40:17,840 --> 01:40:22,550 that was also erotic, that was sort of in that questionable area. 1575 01:40:23,200 --> 01:40:25,396 Mostly tenderness, but because it was tenderness 1576 01:40:25,600 --> 01:40:28,479 it would seem, you know, like you couldn't get enough of each other, 1577 01:40:28,640 --> 01:40:30,551 I think the way you do feel about a baby. 1578 01:40:39,080 --> 01:40:40,115 The last thing she wanted 1579 01:40:40,320 --> 01:40:43,711 would be for this creature to fall into the wrong hands, to be... 1580 01:40:43,920 --> 01:40:46,719 Land on Earth and be put in some horrible place 1581 01:40:46,880 --> 01:40:47,950 and experimented with. 1582 01:40:48,120 --> 01:40:52,159 80, you know, in an odd way, she's doing it to save him. 1583 01:40:57,960 --> 01:40:58,995 (sizzling) 1584 01:41:01,640 --> 01:41:03,631 (screeching) 1585 01:41:32,320 --> 01:41:34,311 (screaming) 1586 01:41:55,280 --> 01:41:57,874 (narrator) With stunning visuals, a fresh script, 1587 01:41:58,040 --> 01:42:00,759 and two leading female stars, 1588 01:42:00,920 --> 01:42:03,753 Fox had high hopes for Alien Resurrection 1589 01:42:04,600 --> 01:42:08,389 I think it stands up. People on the street loved it. 1590 01:42:08,560 --> 01:42:09,914 It was so full of surprises 1591 01:42:10,080 --> 01:42:14,472 and kind of juicy characters and stuff. 1592 01:42:17,240 --> 01:42:20,437 The film earned $160 million worldwide, 1593 01:42:22,040 --> 01:42:25,317 a promising improvement over the third installment, 1594 01:42:26,200 --> 01:42:27,520 but disappointing enough 1595 01:42:27,680 --> 01:42:30,354 to call the future of the Alien franchise into question. 1596 01:42:38,520 --> 01:42:42,275 Since the premiere of the first Alien film in 1979, 1597 01:42:43,440 --> 01:42:48,230 the Alien franchise has grossed $600 million at the box office. 1598 01:42:55,800 --> 01:42:59,111 There's that equipoise between the great human forces 1599 01:42:59,320 --> 01:43:01,118 of the fear of going into the unknown 1600 01:43:01,280 --> 01:43:03,999 and the curiosity to see what's in there, what's around that corner: 1601 01:43:04,160 --> 01:43:06,151 what's in that shadow. 1602 01:43:16,480 --> 01:43:17,800 They are still scary. 1603 01:43:17,960 --> 01:43:23,034 I don't know, it touches some kind of, you know, visceral note. 1604 01:43:28,360 --> 01:43:29,873 (Weaver) I really have to thank Ridley Scott 1605 01:43:30,040 --> 01:43:34,432 for giving us that kind of gritty, real beginning. 1606 01:43:34,960 --> 01:43:38,669 I think he transformed the way we look at space completely. 1607 01:43:38,840 --> 01:43:42,674 And M's been a fantastic opportunity for me as an actor 1608 01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:46,310 to be able to come back to a role with more experience 1609 01:43:46,480 --> 01:43:50,394 and a different perspective and a different kind of hunger 1610 01:43:50,560 --> 01:43:52,790 It's been a good gig, you know. (laughs) 1611 01:43:53,720 --> 01:43:57,759 (narrator) The Alien saga fives on through home videos, 1612 01:43:57,920 --> 01:44:02,756 books, graphic novels and video games. 1613 01:44:05,840 --> 01:44:08,719 Studio executives even considered the possibility 1614 01:44:08,880 --> 01:44:11,713 of making an Alien vs. Predator movie. 1615 01:44:11,920 --> 01:44:14,275 (announcer) The deadliest creatures in the universe 1616 01:44:15,760 --> 01:44:17,478 will meet their match: 1617 01:44:18,680 --> 01:44:19,829 each other. 1618 01:44:20,240 --> 01:44:21,639 Fox is talking about making. 1619 01:44:21,800 --> 01:44:23,393 They wanna make Alien vs. Predator, 1620 01:44:23,640 --> 01:44:26,678 which, to me, is like Godzilla and Mothra or something. 1621 01:44:27,840 --> 01:44:31,470 (announcer) "Aliens vs. Predator" from Fox Interactive. 1622 01:44:32,600 --> 01:44:35,718 (narrator) The advent of digital video technology 1623 01:44:35,880 --> 01:44:39,430 has allowed the director's original vision to be examined, 1624 01:44:41,720 --> 01:44:42,755 evaluated... 1625 01:44:43,880 --> 01:44:44,915 Dallas? 1626 01:44:46,040 --> 01:44:47,599 Wand appreciated. 1627 01:44:47,800 --> 01:44:49,791 (screams) 1628 01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:56,120 But for the loyal fans of the Alien saga, four films just aren't enough. 1629 01:44:56,840 --> 01:44:58,911 They clamor for a fifth movie. 1630 01:44:59,600 --> 01:45:02,035 In February 2001, 1631 01:45:02,200 --> 01:45:05,556 rumors of Alien 5 hit the mainstream press 1632 01:45:05,720 --> 01:45:08,678 and quickly traveled the globe. 1633 01:45:08,840 --> 01:45:10,513 Suddenly, people will ask me about Alien 5. 1634 01:45:10,680 --> 01:45:12,637 They were quite delighted. I was a bit surprised. 1635 01:45:13,160 --> 01:45:17,916 But as always, developing the right storyline is key, 1636 01:45:18,080 --> 01:45:20,196 and nearly everyone involved in the series 1637 01:45:20,400 --> 01:45:24,633 seems to have their own ideas about where the franchise should go. 1638 01:45:24,800 --> 01:45:28,077 I think what was interesting that was touched on in Alien 4 1639 01:45:28,240 --> 01:45:33,076 was this idea of mixing of human and alien DNA. 1640 01:45:33,960 --> 01:45:36,474 (Weaver) There is something about it that feels a little unfinished to me 1641 01:45:36,680 --> 01:45:39,069 because I don't know which side was gonna Wm, 1642 01:45:39,280 --> 01:45:41,317 for instance, with Ripley. 1643 01:45:41,480 --> 01:45:44,154 I always felt that to really finish the series, 1644 01:45:44,320 --> 01:45:48,075 you'd have to go back to the planet from which the alien originated 1645 01:45:48,240 --> 01:45:50,072 and get rid of it at the source. 1646 01:45:50,800 --> 01:45:52,154 Who are you? 1647 01:45:53,480 --> 01:45:55,551 I'm the monster's mother. 1648 01:45:55,720 --> 01:45:58,189 (Woodruff) What draws the audience? I think it's Ripley. 1649 01:45:58,360 --> 01:46:02,240 I think it's Sigourney Weaver playing Ripley that brings people to see the films. 1650 01:46:02,440 --> 01:46:04,511 Get away from her, you bitch! 1651 01:46:04,880 --> 01:46:05,995 (snarls) 1652 01:46:06,760 --> 01:46:09,070 Is there more to be mined from the whole thing? 1653 01:46:09,280 --> 01:46:10,873 Probably there is. 1654 01:46:11,040 --> 01:46:14,112 And do I sometimes miss science fiction? I do. 1655 01:46:14,280 --> 01:46:17,113 You know, I love getting dirty and rolling around in slime 1656 01:46:17,280 --> 01:46:19,715 and stuff like that and... 1657 01:46:19,880 --> 01:46:24,192 80, you know, I said no like 50,000 times before: 1658 01:46:24,360 --> 01:46:26,078 and now I've sort of learned not to do that, 1659 01:46:26,240 --> 01:46:28,629 cos it is science fiction and anything can happen. 1660 01:46:29,160 --> 01:46:30,230 What happens now? 1661 01:46:32,560 --> 01:46:34,233 I don't know. 1662 01:46:35,320 --> 01:46:38,358 I'm a stranger here myself. 1663 01:46:42,320 --> 01:46:43,594 (narrator) Four films. 1664 01:46:48,360 --> 01:46:52,319 Four separate experiences in science fiction, 1665 01:46:52,480 --> 01:46:55,598 action-adventure and terror. 1666 01:46:55,760 --> 01:46:58,912 Alien conjures our worst nightmares 1667 01:46:59,080 --> 01:47:01,469 and preys on our deepest fears. 1668 01:47:02,800 --> 01:47:07,749 It burst upon the big screen and seized our imaginations. 1669 01:47:08,960 --> 01:47:11,839 And now it lurks in our living rooms, 1670 01:47:12,360 --> 01:47:17,150 always ready to strike again. 1671 01:47:22,560 --> 01:47:26,519 (man) Running dry. Ready'? And action. 1672 01:48:17,480 --> 01:48:19,756 - (man) Oh, yeah. - (Weaver) Okay, back on. 1673 01:48:46,080 --> 01:48:47,115 (laughter) 136395

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