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David Giler, who wrote scripts for MYRA BRECKINRIDGE, THE PARALLAX VIEW and FUN WITH DICK AND JANE, always seemed to get his office located down the h...
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Alien 3 screenwriter David Giler guides us on the terrifying journey from script to screen. Why was there a third Alien movie? What were all the re-wr...
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In 1984, Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier (Melancholia, Dogville) began his directorial career with The Element of Crime, his first feature film.
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In a previous article, we took a look at some of the graphic shots cut from Brett's death. Parker's death also had some graphic scenes cut from the fi...
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For this article, we are going to take a quick look at Brett's original death scene. This article has been updated and redone after a small conversati...
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The Creature creations of Tom Woodruff Jr. And Alec Gillis transformed behind the scenes as much as they did on the screen. By Daniel Schweiger
The p...
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Sigourney Weaver talks about ''Alien3''. The star reveals details about the making of the movie and her future - By James Kaplan
Sigourney Weaver fin...
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In this article, we will be taking a look at some of the deleted and alternate scenes not featured in the Alien 3 assembly cut. Some will be taken fro...
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In this part, we will be taking a look at some of the deleted, unfilmed and alternate scenes from the production storyboards which are based on the Ju...
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In December of 1987, James Cameron wrote an article for Starlog magazine entitled 'Answers about Aliens'. The purpose of the article was to answer que...
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JAMES CAMERON is the writer/director of ALIENS. Previously, he co-wrote (with Gale Anne Hurd) and directed Terminator. His first film as director was ...
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The December 1990 Hill and Giler draft feature a sequence in which Dillon and Morse accidentally walk into the alien's cocoon chamber.
In this versio...
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With principal photography for Aliens closing in James Cameron still had nothing designed late in the film's pre-production. With nothing designed mea...
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Ridley Scott originally wanted all three alien forms to be translucent to match Giger's paintings. Giger started work on a translucent Facehugger. Rid...
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One scene appearing in various drafts of the Alien screenplay, and in the Ridleygrams, has Kane's corpse floating outside. One version takes place dur...
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Fresh from his work on "The Warriors," producer Walter Hill Discusses his role in the making of "Alien". By Bob Martin.
Alien is not the initial ex...
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Alien 3 had one of the most tortuous pre-production periods of all the ALIEN movies. And a key figure caught up in the off-screen tribulations was HR ...
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As a producer and/or writer, Ronald Shusett’s credits include FREEJACK, TOTAL RECALL, KING KONG LIVES, and DEAD AND BURIED. But his most famous ...
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ADI claims to have redesigned Giger's Alien. By Tim Prokop
Central to director David Fincher's concept for Alien 3 was the premise that the Alien t...
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A real horror show: The filming of Alien 3 was a nightmare for its director David Fincher.
'As I always say, things don't get clearer when you take t...
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