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ALIEN The Director's Cut In Theaters on Halloween

This Digitally Remastered Special Edition Incorporates New Footage

Source: Twentieth Century Fox
Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2003
HOLLYWOOD -- For the first time in nearly a quarter-century, movie audiences will be able to experience ALIEN on the big screen, as Twentieth Century Fox releases ALIEN The Director's Cut, a special edition of director Ridley Scott's science fiction/horror classic, in theaters nationwide this Halloween.

For this digitally remastered special edition of what many have called the "scariest movie ever made," Ridley Scott has incorporated new footage never before seen in movie houses.

Working closely with Twentieth Century Fox, Scott oversaw a restoration of the original film's negative, as well as further digital enhancements. In addition, Scott and his team of archivists went through over 100 boxes of film footage, unseen in almost 25 years, which was discovered in a London vault. From this wealth of material, Scott selected new "Director's Cut" footage, which then underwent digital restoration, matching it to ALIEN's newly-"polished" negative. The film also features a brand-new six-track digital stereo mix.

Scott, a relatively new convert to the world of digital cinema, was thrilled with the results of these additional enhancements. "ALIEN looks today as good as it did 24 years ago - maybe better," he says. "The digital work is a great way to preserve the film for future generations."

Among the new material in this special edition of ALIEN is a scene Scott calls "The Nest," in which Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver, finds the remains of Brett (Harry Dean Stanton) and Dallas (Tom Skerritt). Scott has always liked the scene, but in 1979 he opted not to include it because he had thought it interrupted the breakneck pace of the film's final 17 minutes. "It was a matter of dynamics," says the director. "I thought that the nest scene might interrupt the tension as Ripley races for the escape vehicle. But when I reexamined the scene, it seemed to work very well, so it's back in."

The additional material also includes a confrontation that turns physical between Lambert (Veronica Cartwright) and Ripley, and a shot of the Alien hanging from chains just prior to its capture of Brett.

ALIEN tells the story of five men and two women working on a battered commercial space vessel, far way in space and time, who encounter an awesome galactic horror. The members of the Nostromo crew are not stereotyped, heroic space explorers - they're interstellar truck drivers. The realism of the characters -and the performances of Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto - complements Scott's candid, almost documentary-like directing style, drawing the viewer into the action like an eighth member of the crew.

Fox released the original ALIEN in May 1979. The film was hailed by critics and audiences worldwide as a seminal work of science fiction, and went on to gross over $100 million worldwide, a remarkable number for that era. The film's success spawned a film franchise for the studio, with three adventures in the saga following in 1986, 1992, and 1997. The producers are Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill, and the screenplay was written by Dan O'Bannon from a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett.

mattevil

what they don't mention is the cocoon/egg scene destoys the idea of the queen in aliens
here's the scene i'm talking about(it's on the laserdisc/dvd)

Spartak

Sounds sweet, I really liked Aliens, but somehow never got around to watching the first film.

Gonna see it now when it comes out

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BuddyHawks

I didn't see any cocoon/egg.
The people strapped to wall happens in the other movies too.
Or am I missing something?
Queen lays the eggs, crab goes on face, alien comes out of chest, alien grows by killing things.

The people strapped to walls are for the face crabs to attach to once they are born.
The alien must stick all non-dead humans on the wall out of alien instinct.

Moobie

Actually, it doesn't destroy the idea of there being a Queen. The Aliens are much like bees, in that when they are without a queen one of the soliders will metamorph into a Queen. I'm not sure of the specifics behind it but it has to do with pheromones.

If you want check out this site: The AnchorPoint Essays http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/3119/

There is some really impressive information on everything about the Alien.

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mattevil

umm spoilers





the guys are turning into eggs in that scene

Moobie

Back a few months they had a midnight showing of Alien, just the regular version, I managed to go and see it. Man was that cool. The only sucky part was that the film must of been an original from the 70's cause it was all scratchy and jumped. So it'll be really cool to see a remastered version.

Although I'll be interested to see if they change the explosion at the end. I always thought that it was kind of stupid looking. Reminded me of the light shows from StarTrek: The movie. But that would be the only thing I would change.

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XeroxPunk

This is gonna be a good week. First my school is showing a 70mm print of Aliens tonight and then the first one in normal theaters. Sweet.

JimmyTheHutt

I love this film, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it on the big screen. I want to catch the horrified expressions on the casts' faces when the Alien comes a-bursting out of John Hurt. From what I understand, only Hurt and Ridley Scott knew what was going to happen, the rest of the cast was in the dark. So those reactions...they're genuine.....hehehehe.

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brandon11983

I'm really looking forward to seeing this on the big screen. I am a fan of all the Alien flicks, and seeing the original in the theater with a 6 channel audio track to empasize the scary parts is gonna be awesome. I just hope the unseen footage doesn't detract from the overall movie.

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As far as I know <a href="http://www.hrgiger.com/">gigers</a> original concept didn't included the queen. The victims would be cocooned and transformed into an egg. I think that would make the alien more "perfect" (The alien is supposed to by the perfect organism) because it would not depend on a central "leader" or "bithmachine".

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Gortexfogg

Eggs aside, I can't wait to catch Alien in the theaters. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll release Aliens back onto the big screen...

Mr.Deflok

Then you haven't heard the news I'm guessing? Aliens gets re-release next year with even more footage that the DC version!

JStrider

BOOOO when they said limited release they meant very limited... i can count the number of theatres on my fingers and toes!

http://www.cinemark.com/alien.asp

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Moobie

Where did you get this wonderful piece of information from? When will it happen? Where? Who do I have to kill? *drool*

What else could they throw into it? The DC pretty much had everything from the book put back into it. What scenes are left out? I know there was a scene where Ripley finds Burke after he's been impregnated and she hands him a grenade. I don't think that was in the DC, but that was because it caused a continuity glitch. (not enough time had passed since his capture for the facehugger to have fallen off of him) What other scenes are there that they can add?

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