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aka "Cinemassacre's Monster Madness: Sequel-A-Thon 2" - USA (seventh season title) Aliens (1986) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error The moon from Alien (1979) has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough? Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON TV a list of 24 titles created 20 Nov 2010 a list of 38 titles created 26 Mar 2011 a list of 21 titles created 29 Mar 2011 a list of 24 titles created 19 Jan 2014 a list of 21 titles created 18 Oct 2015 Search for " Aliens " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 2 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 22 nominations. See more awards » Videos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as distress call, their landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious lifeform. Continuing their journey back to Earth with the attacked crew having recovered and the critter deceased, they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun. Director: Ridley Scott After her last encounter, Ripley crash-lands on Fiorina Fury 161, a maximum security prison. When a series of strange and deadly events occur shortly after her arrival, Ripley realizes that she brought along an unwelcome visitor. Director: David Fincher Two centuries after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the aliens. Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from a more advanced cyborg.

Director: James Cameron 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8/10 X A seemingly indestructible humanoid cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs. Director: James Cameron A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior. Director: John McTiernan Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown. Director: Robert Zemeckis Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.

Director: Steven Spielberg 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7/10 X Following clues to the origin of mankind a team journey across the universe and find a structure on a distant moon containing a monolithic statue of a humanoid head and stone cylinders of alien blood but they soon find they are not alone. Director: Ridley Scott During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok. Director: Steven Spielberg When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis. Director: Steven Spielberg A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Director: Stanley Kubrick Edit Storyline Fifty seven years after Ellen Ripley survived her disastrous ordeal, her escape vessel is recovered after drifting across the galaxy as she slept in cryogenic stasis. Back on Earth, nobody believed her story about the "Aliens" on the moon LV-426.

After the "Company" orders the colony on LV-426 to investigate, however, all communication with the colony is lost. The Company enlists Ripley to aid a team of tough, rugged space marines on a rescue mission to the now partially terraformed moon to find out if there are aliens or survivors. As the mission unfolds, Ripley will be forced to come to grips with her worst nightmare, but even as she does, she finds that the worst is yet to come. Written by Brian Rawlings This time there's more. See more » Genres: Rated R for monster violence, and for language | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 18 July 1986 (USA) See more » Also Known As: 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)| Dolby (35 mm prints) Color: Did You Know? Trivia The "special edition" includes seventeen minutes of extra scenes: Newt's parents discovering the abandoned alien ship on LV-426, scenes of Ripley discussing her daughter, Hudson bragging about his weaponry, robot sentry guns repelling first alien raid, and Hicks and Ripley exchanging first names.

Also included is a scene on LV-426 where a child rides a Bigwheel similar to one ridden in The Terminator (1984), also directed by James Cameron . See more » Goofs When the marines are loading the drop-ship aboard the Sulaco, right after Sgt Apone says 'take it away,' to Spunkmeyer, the power-loader pivots - holding a weapon, and a high set light is visible. See more » Quotes [first lines] Salvage Team Leader : Bio-readouts are all in the green, looks like she's alive. Well, there goes our salvage, guys. See more » Crazy Credits As the final credits fade, there is the sound of a facehugger scurrying across from left to right. See more » Connections Spoofed in Coneheads (1993) See more » Frequently Asked Questions (Edinburgh, Scotland) – See all my reviews Seven years after barely surviving events on board the Nostromo in Ridley Scott's classic sci-fi horror ALIEN, Sigourney Weaver reprised her role as Warrant Officer Ripley for one of the most compelling and critically-acclaimed sequels of all time.

Canadian director James Cameron had already struck gold with the Arnold Schwarzenegger starring vehicle THE TERMINATOR (1984), after his somewhat inauspicious feature film directorial debut with the long-forgotten, Dutch-backed PIRANHA II: THE SPAWNING 3 years earlier. ALIENS would further cement Cameron's growing reputation as a first-rate director of high-tech, fast-paced, adrenaline-pumping action thrillers, from which there would normally be no let-up once they got going. When Ripley is rescued from drifting aimlessly through deep space, she is horrified to learn that not only has she been asleep for 57 years, but the planet on which she had encountered the original alien all that time ago has since been colonized. At first no-one will heed her warnings or completely believe the story she gives at an official enquiry as to what happened to her and her fellow Nostromo crew members. But then contact is lost with LV-426, and despite initially throwing Ripley "to the wolves" (as she herself puts in), The Company, through representative Carter J.

Burke (Paul Reiser), suddenly finds itself in a position of having to ask Ripley for help, finally persuading her to return to the planet that still consumes her every nightmare, as an advisor to a motley group of very tough colonial marines expecting this to be just another run-of-the-mill "bug-hunt". But how wrong that assumption turns out to be! I would argue that ALIENS far surpasses its celebrated predecessor in almost every aspect. Obviously the sheer spectacle of what is basically a Vietnam war movie in space is particularly awe-inspiring - the impressive sets, the many excitingly-staged combat sequences, the aliens themselves (interestingly enough, although through fast cutting and appropriate camera placement it seems as though there are hundreds of aliens being blasted to kingdom come - or else picking off the gung-ho marines one by one - in reality no more than 6 aliens are ever seen in any one shot).

But the human drama element of this sequel is also greatly heightened, primarily by the introduction of "Newt" (wonderful little Carrie Henn, in her only film role), who turns out to be the sole survivor of recent events on LV-426, becoming a kind-of surrogate daughter to Ripley, which leads to several touching moments and gives the story a surprisingly effective emotional core in the midst of all the otherwise pre-eminent carnage. Amongst the talented supporting players are Cameron regulars Michael Biehn (THE TERMINATOR, THE ABYSS) and Bill Paxton (bit part in THE TERMINATOR, TRUE LIES, TITANIC), and Cameron's punchy dialogue includes such suitably macho wisecracks as - Hudson (Paxton): "Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?" Vasquez (a pumped-up Jenette Goldstein): "No, have you?" Nominated for 7 Oscars, including Weaver as Best Actress (again this confirms the general class on display, as it is fairly rare for the Academy to recognize the acting qualities inherent in this type of predominantly action-driven movie), the film went on to win for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Effects Editing.

Further, almost inevitable sequels followed in 1992 and 1997, but I prefer to think of the terrifying perils of Ellen Ripley as ending on this high note. 143 of 260 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Ellen Ripley (Played by Sigourney Weaver in Alien Series) Posted by Darkness on May 9, 2015 (Updated: 09-May-2015) Sigourney Weaver Ellen Ripley is the central character in the Alien franchise, played by actress Sigourney Weaver. She first appeared in Ridley Scott’s Alien in 1979, then James Cameron’s Aliens in 1986, David Fincher’s Alien 3 in 1992 and followed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien Resurrection in 1997. She is slated to appear in Neill Blomkamp’s upcoming Alien sequel too. Early Life Ellen Ripley was born on January 7, 2092 at the Olympia colony on Luna.

She gained a Masters in engineers at the New York Aeronautics University and went on to serve in the US Merchant Navy on a ship called the Zelazny where she was the co-pilot. At some point, she had a child called Amanda. After which, she tried to take a leave of absence from her job so she could spend more time with her daughter. Ripley and Weyland-Yutani came to arrangement where she could take her leave of absence after she had served with the Nostromo. Alien Ripley came aboard the Nostromo in 2122 along with seven other crew members. The crew came out of their stasis and found out the ship had woken them up because it had detected a distress signal emanating from a nearby moon called LV-426. It was stated in their contracts that they had to investigate any kind of extra-terrestrial life so the crew landed on LV-426, damaging their ship in the process. Captain Dallas, Executive Officer Kane and Navigator Lambert were part of the team that went to investigate the distress signal while the rest of the crew stayed on the ship to work on the ship repairs.

Medical Officer Ash observed the ground team from the ship as they came across a Derelict spacecraft. As Dallas, Kane and Lambert entered the Derelict, their radio signals were interrupted cutting them off to the Nostromo. Soon after, Dallas and Lambert bring an injured Kane back to the ship. He had an unknown parasite on his face – a Facehugger so Ripley refused to allow them entry onto the ship citing quarantine protocols. Ash had overridden the door by himself and let them in. Lambert later hit Ripley for refusing to let them back in. Ash and Dallas attempted to remove the Facehugger from Kane but it was wrapped around him too tightly and removing it would probably kill him. They tried cutting off one of its digits and acid spilled out and burnt through the deck. Later, the Facehugger had mysteriously fell off Kane and disappeared. Ripley, Dallas, and Ash search the infirmary and find the creature dead. Kane regained consciousness and the crew had one last dinner before they went back into stasis. As they were eating, Kane started to have a seizure and a Chestburster burst out of his chest and disappeared into the ship.

The crew said a farewell to Kane before shooting his body out of the airlock and prepared to find the alien creature. Brett made a cattle prod and Ash made a motion tracker to help them. Parker, Brett and Ripley took off to find the Chestburster while Dallas, Lambert and Ash stayed behind. Ripley’s team detected a signal but realised it was just Ripley’s cat, Jonesy. Brett inadvertently let it go but Ripley and Parker told him to go and find it so that they wouldn’t detect it again. Brett follows the cat and finds a shed skin. He finds the cat but now the Chestburster has grown into a much larger creature – an adult xenomorph, and it attacks him. Ripley and Parker get there just in time to see if scurry off into the vents. The crew regrouped and realised the creature was using the air ducts to get around the ship. Parker made a few flamethrowers while Dallas agreed to go into the air ducts and drive the alien to the air lock. Parker and Lambert used the ship’s tracker to guide Dallas and tell him where the alien was.

The plan seemed to work and they closed off some parts of the air ducts. The alien seemed to appear and disappear on the motion tracker and before Dallas realised, it attacked him. Parker found the flamethrower but no trace of Dallas’s body. The remaining crew got back together and discussed where to go from here. Lambert suggested escaping in the Narcissus shuttle but Ripley explained that it could not support four people. Later Ripley asked the Nostromo’s computer system, Mother, what to do about the creature. It refused to tell her but she did find out about Special Order 937 which was to recover the alien and keep it alive. Ripley went to find the other crew members but Ash locks her inside. He attacks her and shoves a magazine down her throat. Parker and Lambert came just in time to save her. Parker knocked Ash’s head off with a fire extinguisher and realised he was an android all along. Ripley reactivated Ash to get information about the special order but he didn’t really tell them much. They left and Parker set fire to Ash. The three remaining members of the crew could now use the Narcissus to escape in.

Parker and Lambert went off to collect supplies while Ripley goes to collect her cat. The alien attacks Parker and Lambert, killing them both and Ripley finds their bodies. She activates the Nostromo’s self-destruct mechanism and gets to the shuttle. In the Director’s cut of Alien, she finds Brett and Dallas cocooned and transforming into something. Dallas begs Ripley to kill him so she torches them with a flamethrower. When she reaches the shuttle, she finds the alien blocking her way so she returns to try and deactivate the self-destruct. Despite turning the cooling back on, the ship still finalises the self-destruct mechanism. Ripley rushes back to the shuttle and escapes the Nostromo explosion. She prepares to enter hypersleep when the alien reveals itself hiding in some pipes. She gets to the closet and puts on a spacesuit. Ripley gets to the control unit and opens the airlock to get rid of the alien. It flies out hanging onto the entrance but Ripley manages to use a harpoon gun to get rid of it. She closes the airlock and fires up the engine, and the alien was blown into space. Ripley gives her final report of the Nostromo and enters hypersleep.

Aliens Aliens takes place in 2179 and Ripley has been floating in space in hypersleep for 57 years when a Tripast Salvage ship recovered the Narcissus. She is sent to the Gateway Station to the medical section to recover from her ordeal. She soon talks to a Weyland-Yutani representative called Carter Burke who informs her that her daughter Amanda had died two years before Ripley was woken up from hypersleep. Ripley is brought before an enquiry who wish to know what happened to Nostromo and why she armed the self-destruct mechanism. She tried to convince them that an alien had attacked the crew but the court denied the existence of it and the special order to retrieve it. Ripley tells them to go to LV-426 for themselves but the court tells them that a terraforming colony has been living there for years. The court decides that she acted with ‘questionable judgement’ and revokes her flight license. She begins working as a Powerloader operator on Gateway but Ripley continues to have nightmares about what happened on the Nostromo.

Burke tells her that they have lost contact with the colony on LV-426 and he convinces her to go there with a team of Colonial Marines to find out what happened to them. The team travel there on the Sulaco spacecraft and come out of hypersleep. When they sit down for dinner, Ripley realises that Bishop is an android who tells him to stay away from her, given what happened with Ash on the Nostromo. Burke tells Bishop that the previous android malfunctioned and a few deaths were involved but Bishop tells Ripley that this is impossible with the new models. The team prepare by getting supplies and go down to LV-426 in an APC which is in a dropship. The marines enter the colony ‘Hadley’s Hope’ and search through the medical and operation sections and find the place deserted. After the complex was secured, Ripley, Lt. Gorman, Burke entered the facility. They discovered two alive Facehuggers in stasis tanks in the med lab and realise the colonists had discovered the Derelict spacecraft. The team continue to explore the complex and discover something on their motion tracker. It turns out to be a little girl who escapes into the vents.

Ripley follows her into the vents and corners her. She convinces her to come back with her and the marines. Ripley discovers that she is called Rebecca Jordan or Newt, and her family are dead. She’s been surviving all this time by hiding in the vents. The marines soon discover that all the colonists are grouped together in the atmospheric processing center which is a huge terraforming reactor pumping oxygen into the air. They travel in an APC and the marines go inside the station in search for the colonists. Ripley, Gorman and Burke keep in contact with the marines over the radio and via their video links. The marines come across the aliens’ nest and their communication signal gets weaker. Ripley and Burke tell Gorman that the marines are under the cooling tower and in turn, Gorman tells the marines to hand over their pulse rifle ammunition and grenades so they wouldn’t rupture the reactor. The marines discover the cocooned colonists, along with some Alien Eggs and dead Facehuggers. One of the colonists is alive and starts to convulse. A Chestburster emerges from her chest which Apone kills with the flamethrower.

This causes lots of warrior aliens to attack the marines. One alien takes Corporal Dietrich causing her to fire her flamethrower at Private Crowe who falls to his death. In the chaos, Private Wierzbowski is taken by an alien while Vasquez and Drake open fire on the aliens with their smartguns. Apone is then attacked by a xenomorph which causes Gorman to panic. Ripley takes over and drives the APC into the alien hive. Hicks, Hudson and Vasquez escape in the APC but Drake is sprayed with acid. The APC gets damaged and Gorman gets knocked out by some falling boxes. The group discuss how to proceed and Ripley suggests leaving for the Sulaco and destroying the colony from orbit. They send a signal to one of the dropships to pick them up but a xenomorph snuck aboard and kills Spunkmeyer and the pilot Ferro. This causes the dropship to crash into the marines’ APC. The group then decides to barricade themselves in the colony complex. The group manage to salvage some weapons, ammunition and four sentry guns from the APC. Hicks tells them that they have to wait at least 17 days before rescue comes for them.

Hicks gives Ripley a tracker so they can locate her if she gets lost and later Ripley gives it to Newt in the medlab. Bishop tells the team that the fight with the xenomorphs has damaged the reactor and they have a few hours before it completely explodes. They agree to pilot the last dropship from the Sulaco so they can escape but they discover the radio link is down inside. Bishop agrees to go outside and pilot the dropship while the rest of the marines seal off every entrance to the colony to prevent the aliens from getting in. The aliens soon attack and the sentry guns’ ammunition almost runs out. Ripley discovers that Burke ordered the colonists to go to the Derelict and she tells him that she won’t allow him to take an alien back to Earth. Ripley goes back to Newt in the medlab and goes to sleep. She wakes up and notices that the two Facehuggers have broken out of their stasis tubes and attacks them. They both realise the door to the medlab is locked and Ripley’s pulse rifle is outside the room. She fails to break the glass with a chair so she triggers the fire alarm with a lighter.

This gets the attention of the marines who break the glass, and save Ripley and Newt from the Facehuggers. Ripley realises that Burke had trapped them in there in an effort to infect them with an alien embryo so he could sell them to Weyland-Yutani. He was planning to kill all of the marines in hypersleep. As they confront Burke, the colony loses power and figure out the xenomorphs have found a different way into the complex. Hudson is tracking the aliens coming towards them but don’t know where they are. They realise they were using the air ducts to move around and they attack them from the ceiling. Hudson and Burke are grabbed by aliens in the battle while Newt guides the rest of the group through the airducts. Vasquez and Gorman sacrifice themselves in the air ducts with a grenade which causes Newt to fall in some water. A xenomorph grabs her before Hicks can get to her. Ripley and Hicks escape the facility with Hicks getting injured in the elevator. They tell Bishop to land the dropship near the cooling tower. Ripley refuses to leave Newt behind.

She takes a pulse rifle and flamethrower, and she uses the tracker that she gave to Newt earlier to find her in the alien hive. Ripley uses an elevator to go down many floors and reach the alien hive. She sees no aliens around and drops flares to find her way back to the elevator. In a deleted scene, she catches up with a cocooned Burke who tells her to kill him. She finds Newt’s tracker device and suspects that she has been killed. Just then, Newt, now trapped in alien resin, sees an Alien Egg open and Ripley hears Newt’s cries for help nearby. Ripley kills the Facehugger and frees Newt. They are about to escape when they enter another section where they find lots of alien eggs and an Alien Queen laying the eggs. Some xenomorphs were about to attack Ripley and Newt but the Queen directs them to back off when it realises Ripley is threatening to destroy the alien eggs with her flamethrower. Ripley backs away and destroys the alien eggs, the xenomorphs and fires grenades into the Queen Alien’s egg sack. The Queen tore free from the egg sack and chased after Ripley and Newt.

Ripley and Newt reach the elevator just as the reactor explodes. They escape in the elevator just as the Queen Alien appear and when they get to the cooling tower platform, they realise the dropship was gone. Meanwhile the Queen was coming up to them in the elevator but Bishop arrives in the dropship to rescue them just in time. They take off for the Sulaco just as the colony is destroyed in the reactor explosion. When the group gets to the Sulaco, Ripley thanks Bishop for rescuing them but just then, the Queen impales Bishop through his chest with her tail and rips him apart. The Queen descends from the dropship after it had hidden on there from the cooling tower platform. Newt hides under the floor grates while Ripley goes into a storage area. As the Queen is about to grab Newt, Ripley emerges in a Power Loader suit to battle the Queen. She dodges its attacks and manages to push the Queen into the airlock along with the Power Loader suit. Ripley escapes up a ladder despite the Queen holding onto her and activates the airlock. The Queen Alien is sucked out into space. Ripley climbs out of the airlock and disables the airlock.

Ripley, Newt, Hicks and Bishop enter hypersleep as they make their way back to Earth. Alien 3 After the remaining crew enter hypersleep, an alien egg hatches and unleashes a Super Facehugger. It attacks Ripley in her cryotube which causes the Sulaco to eject all of the cryotubes into an EEV which then crashes onto Fury 161. Hicks is killed by a support beam, while Newt drowns in her cryotube and Bishop is damaged even more. Fury 161 contains a prison facility – a Class C Work Correction Unit, who salvage the EEV and rescue Ripley. The prison’s doctor explains to Ripley where she is and suggests shaving her head as they have a lice problem in the prison. She convinces Clemens to perform an autopsy on Newt as Ripley was worried she was carrying an alien embryo but she wasn’t. They have a funeral for the deceased and their bodies are incinerated in the leadworks while a prisoner called Dillon recites a poem. Prison Warden Andrews is unhappy at the disruption having a female present is causing in an all-male prison.

Ripley later goes to the scrapyard to get what’s left of Bishop but many prisoners attempt to rape her. Dillon saves her and beats them off her. Ripley tried to repair Bishop and temporarily reactivates him. He tells her that an alien was on board the entire trip and caused the Sulaco to eject them in the EEV. Ripley disconnects Bishop and goes to see Clemens. During this time, the same Facehugger that was aboard the EEV, infects a dog (or an ox depending on which version of Alien 3 you watch). During the funeral, the alien emerges from the dog and quickly grows into a large xenomorph. This time, the creature actually borrows traits from its host so it walks on all fours like a dog and is generally more agile. It killed three prisoners leaving Golic alive who is later restrained in the infirmary. As Clemens is seeing to Ripley, he is killed by the xenomorph. Ripley runs to the mess hall to warn the others but Prison Warden Andrews is grabbed from the air vent and killed by the creature. The prisoners regrouped and tried to figure out a way to kill it.

Their idea was to fill the ventilation system with toxic waste and set it alight in an attempt to force out the alien. The xenomorph unfortunately struck and caused a huge explosion, killing many prisoners. Ripley starts feeling sick and asks Aaron to run a scan of her in the EEV. She discovers that she is carrying a Queen Chestburster inside of her. Ripley then asks Dillon to kill her which agrees to but only after she helps kill the alien. They plan to trap the alien in the prison’s leadworks so the prisoners start luring it into different sections and sealing it in. Eventually, most of the prisoners are killed leaving Ripley, Dillon, Morse and Aaron left. The xenomorph gets trapped in the mold with Ripley and Dillon and Dillon stays behind to distract it while Ripley climbs out. The alien charges at Dillon killing him and Ripley tells Morse to pour the lead into the mold. The alien was still alive and jumps out covered in molten lead. Morse tells her to turn to the sprinklers on which causes the alien’s body to crack and explode. Ripley prepares to kill herself with the help of Morse.

People from the Weyland-Yutani company arrive to help Ripley and remove the Chestburster from inside of her. One of them is Michael “Bishop” Weyland, the person who allegedly designed the Bishop androids and used his likeness. Weyland told her that they could remove the embryo and it would be destroyed. Ripley refused to believe him and Aaron attacked Weyland proving that he was human after all. Aaron was shot dead by Weyland’s team while Ripley and Morse move off the platform. Bishop tells Ripley not to do it and that he must have the alien. Ripley sacrifices herself and falls into the molten lead just as the Chestburster erupts from her chest. She grabs onto it and she falls into the lead and dies. Alien Resurrection After Ripley sacrificed herself on Fury 161, samples of her blood were recovered from the planet. In 2379, two hundred years since the events on Fury 161, military scientists aboard the USM Auriga spacecraft attempt to clone Ripley in order to extract the alien embryo from her. After seven attempts to clone Ripley , the eighth attempt is successful.

Known as Ripley 8, the company extracts the Chestburster from her body. As a result of the cloning procedure, Ripley 8 has part alien DNA inside of her which gives her enhanced strength, acidic blood and a special connection to the xenomorphs. In the mean time, the military have raised a Queen Alien which has begun laying eggs. A group of mercenaries arrive on the Auriga in a ship called the Betty and delivery many kidnapped humans in stasis so the military could use them as hosts for the aliens. A member of the Betty, Call, attempts to kill Ripley 8 so they couldn’t extract any DNA but it was too late. The xenomorphs have also gained a huge amount of intelligence through the cloning process and escape their containers. They begin killing the crew and Ripley 8 and the Betty crew decide to escape in their ship and destroy the Auriga to prevent it from getting to Earth. Along the way, Ripley 8 discovers a room containing all the other failed Ripley clones and sets fire to them all. The group swims through a flooded kitchen and try to escape two xenomorphs. Hillard and Christie are killed and Call is fatally shot.

Call reappears at the top of the shaft and reveals herself to be an advanced android. Ripley 8 tells Call to interface with the Auriga and tell the ship to set a collision course with Earth hoping to destroy the xenomorphs in the crash. Ripley is captured by the aliens who witnesses the Queen Alien give birth to a new creature known as the Newborn which has a mixture of human and alien DNA. The Newborn kills the Queen and believes Ripley is its mother. As Dr. Gediman distracts the creature, Ripley 8 uses the moment to escape to the Betty. With Ripley on board, Call goes to the cargo bay to shut the hatch and discovers the Newborn is on the ship. She hides away while Distephano is killed when he comes into the cargo bay. Ripley 8 goes back there and hugs the Newborn. She then cuts her hand on it and spills her acidic blood onto the window. Call and Ripley manage to hang on but the Newborn is sucked out of the window as she cries. The Auriga crashes into Earth causing a huge explosion and the Betty lands in a now destroyed Paris.

Ripley 8 and Call are discussing life on Earth and Ripley tells her the she is a stranger here herself. Trivia Sigourney Weaver is the only actor/actress to appear in all four Alien films. Veronica Cartwright originally auditioned for the role of Ripley, but the filmmakers went with Sigourney Weaver. Sigourney Weaver wasn’t too keen to reprise her role as Ripley after Alien and rejected many offers from Fox to do any sequels. However, after reading James Cameron’s script, Weaver was so impressed with it that she agreed to do the film. For Alien 3, Sigourney Weaver had a clause in her contract which said Alien writers Walter Hill and David Giler should write the final shooting script. Weaver felt that those two and James Cameron were the only people to understand the character. David Giler later stated that he regretted writing Alien 3 as it caused numerous problems between him and director David Fincher and 20th Century Fox. Sigourney Weaver mainly signed on to do Alien Resurrection because of the scene where Ripley 8 discovers her other clones. Sigourney Weaver was paid $11 million to do Alien Resurrection.

In Alien Resurrection, Sigourney Weaver actually made the basketball shot from behind in the very first take. 20th Century Fox wanted to cut the scene in Alien Resurrection where Ripley gets sucked into the Alien hive due to its sexual nature. Sigourney Weaver threatened to not promote the movie if they cut it out. Sigourney Weaver reprised her role as Ellen Ripley for the 2014 video game Alien Isolation for the Last Survivor and Crew Expendable DLC. Login Info Alien's Ellen Ripley almost played by Meryl Streep | SyfyWire Alien's Ellen Ripley almost played by Meryl Streep Nathalie Caron Fri, Dec 14, 2012 4:31pm As hard as it is to imagine everyone's favorite alien-ass-kicking action heroine, Ellen Ripley, played by anyone other than Sigourney Weaver, it almost happened—and the other actress who almost got the role in 1978 was none other than Meryl Streep. That's what Shadowlocked discovered in the Charles De Lauzrika Alien franchise documentaries on the new Alien Anthology Blu-ray release.

The site reports that: Alien franchise producer Gordon Carroll says, in an interview segment that never made it into the main documentaries either on the DVD or Blu-ray editions, that "We had a casting girl working for us named Mary Goldberg—she told us that there were two women we should see in New York that she thought would be perfect [for 'Ripley']. One who had done some films, but had not broken through as yet, and the other was a young girl who had not made a movie as yet. The first woman was Meryl Streep. Meryl's long-time companion had just died, and I did not feel that she should be asked to come in from the country. It had just happened the day before ... we could see her another time. The other woman was, of course, Sigourney Weaver." While we're sure Meryl Streep would have been fantastic—as the most Oscar-nominated actress in history always is—but an action heroine? Though Streep is a wonderful actress, we do have a difficult time imagining anyone else in the role of Ripley other than Sigourney Weaver, who played the character for a total of four films.

It's like imagining what Indiana Jones would have been like if Tom Selleck had played the character, as was originally planned instead of Harrison Ford; or what Back to the Future would have been like with Eric Stoltz in the role of Marty McFly instead of Michael J. Fox; or Burt Reynolds as Han Solo instead of Ford again; or even Clint Eastwood as Superman instead of the beloved late Christopher Reeve. In the end Streep may not have ended up with the Ripley role, but the actress made a rather interesting cameo of sorts in Alien 3, because: On the Anthology Blu-ray, prosthetic masters Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff note, in a segment excluded from the original De Lauzrika documentaries, that the face to which the face-hugger is seen attached in the opening credits of Alien 3 is actually that of Meryl Streep ... If we squint our eyes really, really hard we can almost see Meryl Streep there ... maybe. So—what kind of Ripley do you think Meryl Streep would have made?

Ellen Ripley, a Feminist Film Icon, Battles Horrifying Aliens … and Patriarchy | Bitch Flicks Ellen Ripley, a Feminist Film Icon, Battles Horrifying Aliens … and Patriarchy Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley Written by Megan Kearns . When I was 10 years old, the scariest movie I ever saw was Aliens. I remember the first time I saw it like it was yesterday. Late one night, plagued with insomnia (perhaps a product of my tumultuous childhood), I heard the TV on in my mother’s bedroom. Sitting down next to her, I began watching too. My mom was watching Aliens. It was the scene where Ellen Ripley goes down the elevator, guns strapped to her, to rescue Newt. Entranced, I watched as encased in a forklift, she clashed with the Alien Queen. But it wasn’t the gore or even the alien that mesmerized me. It was Ripley. Seeing a strong badass woman on-screen left in an indelible impression on me. With its tense, gritty, noir atmosphere, Alien broke ground spawning numerous imitations in the horror and sci-fi genres.

Set in the year 2122, crew of the freighter spaceship Nostromo answer a beacon on the planet LV-426 and encounter a terrifying and insidious creature that attempts to wipe out the crew. Eschewing some of its horror roots in favor of an action-packed bonanza, the sequel Aliens features Lt. Ellen Ripley (the superb Sigourney Weaver), the Nostromo’s sole survivor (along with Jones the cat), warning and advising a group of Marines going to LV-426 to investigate after Earth lost contact with the planet’s colonists. For me, I can’t separate Alien and Aliens (although I pretend the 3rd and 4th don’t exist…ugh). Both amazing films possess pulse-pounding intensity, a struggle for survival, and most importantly for me, a feminist protagonist. Radiating confidence and strength, Ripley remains my favorite female film character. A resourceful survivor wielding weapons and ingenuity, she embodies empowerment. Bearing no mystical superpowers, she’s a regular woman taking charge in a crisis.

Weaver, who imbued her character with intelligence and a steely drive, was inspired to “play Ripley like Henry V and women warriors of classic Chinese literature.” Sigourney Weaver’s role as Ripley catapulted her to stardom, making her one of the first female action heroes. Preceded by Pam Grier in Coffy and Dianna Rigg as Emma Peel in The Avengers, she helped pave the way for Linda Hamilton’s badassery in T2, Uma Thurman in Kill Bill, Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix, Lucy Lawless as Xena, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy, and Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider and Salt. But Ripley, a female film icon, wasn’t even initially conceived as a woman. Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, Alien’s screenwriters, wrote into the original script that all of the characters, while written as men (including “Ripley” who was originally written as “Roby”), were in fact unisex and could be cast as either women or men.

While they never actually pictured Roby/Ripley as a woman, when producers Walter Hill and David Giler rewrote the final draft of the script, Ripley was indeed a woman…huzzah! While the original and final scripts differ, particularly in that android Ash isn’t in the original, Roby and Ripley are surprisingly similar, sharing similar dialogue and eventually asserting their authority through decisive actions. Neither character wants to let the injured crewmember (Standard the Captain in the original script / Kane the Ex. O in the final draft) onto the ship as they might be infected. Although interestingly, Ripley stands her ground and doesn’t let him in while Roby caves. Also, both remain the sole survivors of the crew. While both Alien and Aliens straddle the sci-fi/horror divide, one of the horror elements apparent in Alien is Carol Clover’s notion of the “final girl.” In numerous horror films (Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, The Descent), the resourceful woman remains the sole survivor, the audience intended to identify and sympathize with her. Oftentimes sexual overtones exist with the promiscuous victims and the virginal survivor.

While Alien and Aliens display sexual themes (we’ll get to those in a moment), Ripley isn’t sexualized but remains the sole survivor in the first film. She’s also never masculinized as Clover suggests happens to final girls in order to survive. So remember those sexual themes I just mentioned…well just because Ripley isn’t sexualized, doesn’t mean sexuality doesn’t play a pivotal role in Alien. Swiss artist H.R. Giger designed the alien as well as some sets for the first film with pervasive phallic and vaginal imagery (don’t believe me…take a look; you won’t be able to not see it). Alien took the horror of rape comingled with the “male fear of female reproduction” and put it in space. Rather than maniacal villains attacking women and glorifying femicide, as many horror films do, Alien showed a creature attacking men (and eventually women too). While dangerous sexual elements abound, women weren’t punished for their sexuality. Ripley never becomes an object merely for the male gaze. In Alien, she strips down to a tank top and underwear before she enters the cryogenic chamber. But rather than objectifying, to me it seemed to symbolize her vulnerability.

The alien stows away in her escape pod yet she doesn’t hesitate, immediately slipping into a spacesuit to battle the alien. The script initially intended for Ripley to sleep with Dallas the Captain. Thank god that was never filmed! We need more movies where a woman is not reduced to a sex object. Ultimately, Ripley is not defined by her relationship with a man; she defines herself. Films rarely feature multiple women; even rarer is it to see various depictions of women. In Alien, Ripley is juxtaposed with Lambert (Veronica Cartwright). While Ripley remains calm and collected, Lambert is an emotional hot mess, unhinged by fear. Time after time, the media pits women against one another. But after initial reluctance, Ripley and Lambert in Alien and Ripley and Vasquez (fiercely played by Jeanette Goldstein) in Aliens, work cooperatively together. Motherhood exists as a reoccurring theme in Alien and Aliens. A pivotal scene cut from Aliens reveals that Ripley had a daughter. When she returns to Earth, after being stranded in space for 57 years on the Nostromo’s escape pod, Ripley discovers her daughter recently died at the age of 66.

She survives to ultimately lose her daughter. Her grief catalyses her connection with the young girl Newt (Carrie Henn). Ripley risks her life to save and protect this little girl, perhaps in an attempt to reconcile her feelings of loss. At the end of the film, Newt hugs Ripley, calling her “Mommy;” she becomes a mother again. Even in Alien, Ripley smashes the computer called “Mother” onboard the Nostromo. Interestingly in Aliens, Ripley isn’t fighting a male villain; she combats a female: the Alien Queen. While the Alien Queen doesn’t equal a human woman, it’s hard to ignore that the film portrays one mother warring against another, both protecting their children. Of the few truly empowered female film characters, most are lioness mothers: Ripley protecting Newt, Sarah Connor fiercely protecting her son and all of humanity in Terminator and T2, The Bride/Beatrix Kiddo a vengeful mother in Kill Bill. Despite the frequent comparisons made between the two badass women warriors, there’s a crucial difference between Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor. Connor exists solely to protect her male son from assassination or humanity will be wiped out; she possesses no other identity.

While Ripley becomes a surrogate mother to Newt, her identity still remains her own, not solely contingent on another. A feminist commentary regarding female voice confronted by sexism in society emerges in both Alien and Aliens. In Alien, Ash undermines Ripley’s authority as Warrant Officer as he lets Kane onboard, disobeying Ripley’s decision to follow protocol and quarantine him. Dallas the Captain disregards Ripley’s concerns about not trusting Ash. After Ripley uncovers Ash’s treacherous plot, he stuffs a porn magazine in her mouth, “the film’s most explicit equation of male violence with the desire to annihilate the female voice.” In Aliens, Ripley tries to warn the Weyland-Yutani Corporation about the danger of the alien and the LV-426 colonists’ impending doom. When she travels with the Marines, they initially discount her testimony. Only when the shit seriously hits the fan do they listen, looking to her as a tactical leader to survive. A futuristic Cassandra, prophesying destruction yet no one heeds Ripley’s warning. Is it because she’s a woman? That seems to be the message. Society continually devalues women, silencing their voices.

The media inundates us with images of male protagonists so it’s refreshing to see women lead…and of course kicking ass! Living in a world dominated by patriarchy, women receive societal cues telling them explicitly and implicitly how to behave, look and speak. Social norms dictate that women should be gentle, nurturing, and caring. Subtly implied lies the assertion that women should support the men in their life, that they should not be too outspoken or too unruly. In theory, women action heroes break that mold. But in reality, most female film characters don’t shatter gender stereotypes . They rarely lead as heroes, usually serving as props to the male protagonists, and serving as love interests. Rather than showcasing empowerment, researcher Katy Gilpatric found that women in action films ultimately succumb to stereotypical gender roles . Under the guise of empowerment, most female film characters still play out gender norms where women serve men and stay out of the limelight. That’s what makes Ripley so unique. She subverts traditional gender roles while retaining her female identity. In an interview in Time Magazine, Weaver talked about Ripley and film roles for women : “Usually women in films have had to carry the burden of sympathy, only coming to life when a man enters.

Doesn’t everyone know that women are incredibly strong?” Growing up, Ellen Ripley was my role model, a fierce feminist. Alien and Aliens taught me an invaluable lesson. They showed me a woman doesn’t need a man to solve a problem or fight their battles. After recently watching the documentary Miss Representation , which exposes the ways the media objectifies and attempts to strip women and girls of their power, I realize the gravity of seeing strong, confident women on-screen who aren’t valued merely for their appearance. And therein lies the power of Ripley. While sexist studio execs might not want a 60-year-old Sigourney Weaver to reprise her iconic role , we need more Ripleys on-screen. Weaver said that all women possess “a secret action heroine” inside them. Women don’t always know their own strength. We don’t need to be rescued or saved; we can do that on our own. We may not live in a world with chest-bursting aliens bleeding acid for blood. But anyone can aspire to be Ellen Ripley. … Megan Kearns is a blogger, freelance writer and activist. She blogs at The Opinioness of the World , a feminist vegan site.

Her work has also appeared at Arts & Opinion , Fem2pt0 , Italianieuropei , Open Letters Monthly , and A Safe World for Women . She earned her B.A. in Anthropology and Sociology and a Graduate Certificate in Women and Politics and Public Policy. Megan lives in Boston with more books than she will probably ever read in her lifetime. Ellen Ripley | Horror Film Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Portrayed by Sigourney Weaver Ellen Ripley is the primary protagonist of the Alien franchise. She is played by Sigourney Weaver . She is the first officer of the cargo ship Nostromo, when she first met the Alien and has a daughter on Earth. "Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew — Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash and Captain Dallas — are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off." - Ripley in Alien Contents Edit In this movie she is the first officer of the cargo ship Nostromo on the way to Earth.

The crew consists of seven members and they are transporting 20 million tons of mineral ore towards Earth and they are alll in hibernation, until they are woken up by Mother, who has detected a signal of unknown origin. She goes with the rest of the crew to the planet that has the signal, because they are forced to according to their contracts. While half of them explore the origin of the signal, which leads them to discover the ship and the aliens, she stays inside the ship with the other half, analises the signal and detects, the signal is not an emergency, but a warning, but it is too late. When one of them has the alien from the crashed alien ship there, she intends not to let them go inside, because the quarantine laws rightfully demand it for the protection of the ship. Ash, the science officer refuses to follow that order and lets them in, which forces her to become suspicious about him since he should have known better as a science officer.

When the alien begins to kill the crew one by one, she finally sees her suspicions confirmed by exposing through her own investigation about his activities, that Ash has been protecting the creature under the orders of the company, who wants to study it and that they knew all along about the signal and its real meaning and had used the ship as a basis for the study of the creature and intended to sacrifice the crew in their quest to bring it to Earth for further study. Ash tries to kill her for her discovery, but fails, because the others stop him. She activates him again to find out from him, if there is a way to stop it and when he says no, she deactivates him and tries to flee to the escape ship and prepare to self destruct the ship with the rest of the crew, but they are all killed by the alien except her. She still manages to self destruct the ship anyway and flee in the escape ship, where she has to battle the alien, that realised in time, what was going on and also went inside and barely manages to defeat it by throwing it out of space and stops his attempt of returning by activating the engines of the ship.

She then hibernates with her cat after recording what has happened in the hopes of being found later by other ships. Aliens Edit Ellen has been sleeping for 57 years, while the ship has been drifting towards the core systems, until she is casually found and woken up. She is then in a space station on orbit of Earth recovering in an infirmary and has to deal with her actons regarding the events on the Nostromo. Noone believes her story, while her daughter, that lived on Earth, died out of old age. She loses her position as first officer as a result of the investigation and has to work as a cargo worker. In the meantime, the planet with the aliens now has a colony, whose job is to make it habitable, until the company loses contact with it. The company then recruits Ripley and a unit of Colonial Marines to deal with the Species should it have been destroyed by the Species. She agrees in order to have her former status back and to deal with the traumatic experience 57 years back and on the promise the aliens will be eradicated. On the planet they realise, they have taken over the colony there Only one girl has survived. Her name is Newt.

Ripley develops maternal feelings for the girl. She comes to the realisation she has to face with the marines dozens of aliens lead by their leader, the Alien Queen, who decimate the Marines and maintain them on the planet. She also has to face the company and its representant Burke, who want to have some of those creatures like before and who are responsible for the disaster by sending the colonists to the ship without warning them in order to have these creatures without interference. Undeer her unofficial leadership they manage to defeat the creatures by destroying the place with a thermonuclear detonation after having managed to leave the planet with a reserve spaceship in time. Burke´s plan to get some of the creatures and sacrifice the others to cover up the events is thwarted by Ripley, too The Alien Queen, however, survives by hiding under the spaceship and faces Ripley in a showdown on the marine main ship with noone being able to help her at that moment. She manages to defeat it by using a cargo robot and throw it out in space, save Newt, the android Bishop and the last of the marines, corporal Hicks.

Then she makes sure everyone hibernates on the way home, her own demons about the first encounter with the species eradicated. Alien³ Edit The Alien Queen has been defeated, but she left an egg behind the ship of the Marines. It impregnates Ripley and causes the marine ship to crash on a deserted planet with a near abandoned prison, who only has a handful convicts that have been converted into a religion of one of their own. Before the parasite dies, he impregnates a dog. It hatches immediately and begins to kill everyone there. They have to stop it without guns or anything. An attempt fails and Ripley realises in time, she has an alien embryo. A company ship in the meantime approaches, that knows about Ripley´s condition.Ripley and the leader of the prisoners hatch a last plan to stop the creature. They carry it out using the prisoners and themselves as bait. Nearly all of them sacrifice their lives to lure the alien into the factory there and to the corresponding pit, where they throw molten lead on it. It survives, but Ripley manages to throw cold water on it later. It explodes because of it.

At this moment the company comes to convince Ripley to turn herself in in order to get the alien queen out of her body, so that she can continue to live and have a long life. She refuses and throws herself into the molten lead taking the alien queen with her. As the place is closed and the only survivor is taken away, you hear the signal of the escape ship of the Nostromo coming in there, that Ripley sent 57 years before. Alien: Resurrection Edit A clone of Ripley has been created with blood samples from the place, where she committed suicide. She is the eighth one. The others were imperfect and therefore disposed. She has the memories of Ripley a byproduct of still having a little alien blood in her body, which also gives her extra strength, speed, precision and agressiveness. This was done to get the alien queen from her body and harness it for military and scientific purposes in a ship near Earth. Thirteen persons have been abducted to breed thirteen aliens in them, who then get out by sacrificing one of their own. They cause havoc across the ship and decimate the crew and its inhabitants.

The clone must ally herself with the group of pirates, that brought the abducted to the ship and an android, who came to stop the experiment to leave the ship alive and stop the ship and the aliens before they arrive Earth. In the meantime it turns out, the Alien Queen also has human genes and creates a new alien with human genes from Ripley´s genes representing an even greater threat than the aliens, because he is far more intelligent. They also have to deal with it, too. It is also a race with the leader of the experiment becoming insane regarding his obsession with the aliens. He is stopped by the pirates, who didn´t know about this experiment. The alien-human hybrid alien is stopped by Ripley and the ship crashes on Earth obliterating the surviving aliens on the way. It is hinted, that the clone of Ripley wants to stay on Earth and longes for a peaceful life after everything that happened. It is also hinted she has developed a friendship with the android.

Gallery Actor who played Aliens' Newt back after three decades | Film | The Guardian Close This article is 1 year old She ought to have been the breakout star of Aliens as the little girl, Newt, who defies all odds to escape from a remote planetoid overrun by lethal extra terrestrials, but Carrie Henn never saw her name in lights again . Now the actor is to return to the screen almost 30 years on from the release of James Cameron’s brutal space thriller in a fan film set in the Alien universe. Henn, 39, will play Anne Jorden, young Newt’s mother, in a flashback sequence for Alien Identity, which is being directed by Adam Sonnet. Newt herself will be portrayed by the film-maker’s wife Elle Viane Sonnet. “I am looking forward to working on Aliens from a different perspective,” said Henn, who has been active on fan convention circuits in recent years. “I can’t wait to hear what all the fans think!” Ricco Ross, who played space grunt Private Robert Frost in Aliens, is also returning for the new film. He will play the role of Richard Frost, the late Robert’s brother, as well as taking a producer’s credit.

I'll ignore Alien 3 and take the franchise back to familiar territory, says Neill Blomkamp Read more Fans of the Alien series have long speculated on how Henn’s career might have developed had her character not been written out by Alien 3 director David Fincher at the start of the film. Many remain angry at the way Newt was so quickly dispensed with after audiences had spent so much time rooting for her and Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley in Cameron’s film. Henn is known for the line “They mostly come at night … mostly”. According to Alien fan sites she was discovered by casting agents while living with her US air force-employed father on a base in Lakenheath, England, in the mid-80s. The agents sent a photograph to producers and the eight-year-old girl won the part after auditioning at Pinewood Studos. Pinterest The Alien saga, which began with Ridley Scott’s Alien in 1979 and has spanned four films and two Alien vs Predator spin-offs, not to mention the pseudo-prequel Prometheus, is also set for a big screen return .

In fact, Newt but might still be alive in District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s proposed film, which will see Weaver returning as Ripley. The South African film-maker said in February that he planned to ignore Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection to return to the “Freudian nightmare” of the earlier films, though he later appeared to backtrack . Alien Identity takes place 14 years after the events of Aliens, which was released in 1986. Producers are currently crowdfunding via Kickstarter at . I'll ignore Alien 3 and take the franchise back to familiar territory, says Neill Blomkamp | Film | The Guardian Neill Blomkamp I'll ignore Alien 3 and take the franchise back to familiar territory, says Neill Blomkamp District 9 film-maker reveals plans to ignore unpopular sequels Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection in order to take the franchise back to ‘a Freudian kind of nightmare’ Hello, old friend ... Alien.

Photograph: Allstar/20th Century Fox/Sportsphoto Ltd Thursday 26 February 2015 04.04 EST Last modified on Thursday 26 February 2015 05.12 EST Close This article is 1 year old Neill Blomkamp plans to ignore 1992’s Alien 3 and 1997’s Alien: Resurrection in his ongoing efforts to deliver a new Alien movie starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, reports Sky News . No space jockeys, no time travel: five things the new Alien film should avoid Read more The South African film-maker revealed last week that his proposal for a new Alien movie centred on Weaver’s extra-terrestrial-exterminating space warrior had been greenlit by studio 20th Century Fox . The announcement immediately led to discussion on the web as to how Blomkamp planned to bring Ripley back, given the character died at the end of Alien 3 and was brought back as a human-xenomorph clone in Alien: Resurrection.

During recent interviews for Blomkamp’s new film Chappie, the District 9 director explained his approach would involve setting aside the later films. “I want this film to feel like it is literally the genetic sibling of Aliens, so it’s Alien, Aliens, this movie,” said Blomkamp, who also signalled he would return the series to its horror roots. “It’s a Freudian kind of nightmare,” he said. “That element to me is what is so appealing, to try to put the audience on the edge of their seat the whole time in a traditional ‘monster stalking you/dark corridor’ way. And then when you mix in the life cycle and the design elements of the Alien , it’s just a powder-keg of creativity to me.” Meanwhile, Weaver signalled her continued commitment to exploring the possibility of a return for Ripley, though it is understood she has not yet officially signed on to the role. “I’m delighted that he is interested in doing this,” she said. “I think it’s a great series; it deserves a proper ending. I know the fans would love that, and so I hope it works out.” Alone out there ...

Sigourney Weaver in Alien Photograph: Allstar/20TH CENTURY FOX/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar Blomkamp also told The Guardian that he would “categorically” rule out any return for the cloned version of Ripley, further hinting that the new film will ignore later Alien instalments. The film-maker first alerted fans to his interest in continuing the space saga in a series of Instagram posts on New Year’s Day, featuring extensive artwork for an Alien project he said he was no longer working on. The mocked-up concept art featured Weaver, who played Ellen Ripley in four Alien movies between 1979 and 1997, and Michael Biehn, who played Hicks in 1986’s Aliens. Blomkamp later revealed that he had worked with Weaver on the project during downtime from Chappie, which features the former Ghostbusters star in a supporting role. And last week he took to Instagram once more with a new xenomorph image to confirm his Alien movie was going ahead . The South African film-maker’s caption read: “Um … So I think it’s officially my next film.

#alien.” Sigourney Weaver's Ripley return will pick up after 'Aliens', ignoring other sequels - CNET CNET Sigourney Weaver's Ripley return will pick up after 'Aliens', ignoring other sequels Sigourney Weaver's Ripley return will pick up after 'Aliens', ignoring other sequels Director Neill Blomkamp has revealed his new "Alien" movie will overwrite "Alien 3" and "Alien: Resurrection". Up Next Death to Apple's Mac Mini: I made a Hackintosh Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) sets her sights on the xenomorphs with the help of Corporal Hicks (Michael Biehn) in "Aliens".Photo by Fox We've all suffered through movies we wish we could strike from our memories -- and the new "Alien" movie is set to do that officially, writing off everything after "Aliens". In a video seen by blogging site /FILM , director Neill Blomkamp and star Signourney Weaver confirmed during an interview with the UK's Sky Movies that they are working together on a new film in the "Alien" series.

They also revealed that the film will fit into the series before the unpopular "Alien 3" and "Alien: Resurrection" sequels. 55 Every geek movie we're excited about in 2015 The chest-bursting, acid-dripping sci-fi horror series began with Ridley Scott's haunted-house-in-space chiller "Alien" in 1979, in which Weaver played ass-kicker Ellen Ripley. James Cameron directly continued Ripley's story in "Aliens" in 1986, albeit with a marked shift in tone. David Fincher's "Alien 3" also took up Ripley's story, but dismayed fans by killing off the previous film's other survivors -- and to add insult to injury it was done offscreen, before Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 1997 "Alien Resurrection" brought Ripley back as a part-alien clone. The latter two films are certainly stylish and audacious exercises in science fiction, but fans have long considered them as being the point where the series lost its way in narrative terms. Woah-oh I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien Iconic 'Alien' designer H.R.

Giger passes away So now it looks like Blomkamp is going to just pretend they never happened, a bit like how "Superman Returns" wrote off all the Superman movies after "Superman II". Blomkamp, the South African director of sci-fi films "District 9" and " Elysium ", first signalled his dream of an "Alien" movie by posting concept art on Instagram earlier this year. He developed the film in his own time after working with Weaver, but after a huge fan reaction 20th Century Fox quickly gave the film the green light. Blomkamp's concept art features both Ripley and surviving space marine Dwayne Hicks, played by Michael Biehn in "Aliens", although it's currently unknown as to whether Biehn will reprise his role. There's also no word yet on whether we'll see a return for other "Aliens" characters such as bifurcated 'bot Bishop, played previously by Lance Henriksen, or adorable alien-dodging scamp Rebecca "Newt" Jorden, played in "Aliens" by child actor Carrie Henn.

Henn never acted in anything else and grew up to be a school teacher, so a grown-up actor would probably be cast. In the meantime, Blomkamp's "Chappie", which tells the tale of a robot discovering its humanity, is in cinemas this weekend. 28

Question: Who played 'Ellen Ripley' in the films 'Alien' and 'Aliens'?
Answer: SIGOURNEY WEAVER