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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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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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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 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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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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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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Over the years, I've heard of many mythical scenes that have supposedly been filmed, lost, seen exclusively at crew/press screenings and even released...

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If you've watched Alien 3 real close, you will notice two commandos that look strange and stick out from the rest. You first come across these two com...

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You will be familiar with Giger's early concept designs for the facehugger and chestburster. However, it wasn't Giger, who built or operated the two c...

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When it came to giving the adult alien function, it was clear that the production team needed someone with not only considerable sculpting skills but ...

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A question I was asked a while ago: Why was Ripley's nose bleeding? was it an accident after she grabbed Ash in the computer annex? No, the scene wh...

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Who the hell is Vincent?Watching the Assembly Cut of Alien 3 you will notice in the bait and chase sequence at the end of the movie, we see Kevin ("Di...

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