Alien (film series)
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Alien (film series) is a far six-part American - British science fiction - film series , which with 1,979 Alien - The sinister creature from another world by director Ridley Scott has started. The historical basis laid the scriptwriters Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett . In addition to the movies, there were adaptations in fiction as well as video and radio plays .
The crossover films Alien vs. Predator and Aliens vs. Predator 2 does not belong to the official Alien film series.
Movies
| year | German title | Original title | Director | FSK classification | running time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feature films | |||||
| 1979 | Alien - The creepy creature from a strange world | Alien | Ridley Scott | from 16 | 117 minutes |
| 1986 | Aliens - The Return | Aliens | James Cameron | from 16 | 137 minutes |
| 1992 | Alien 3 | Alien³ | David Fincher | from 16 | 114 minutes |
| 1997 | Alien - The rebirth | Alien: Resurrection | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | from 16 | 104 minutes |
| prehistory | |||||
| 2012 | Prometheus - Dark Signs | Prometheus | Ridley Scott | from 16 | 124 minutes |
| 2017 | Alien: Covenant | Alien: Covenant | Ridley Scott | from 16 | 122 minutes |
action
Alien - The creepy creature from a strange world
In 2122, the cargo spacecraft Nostromo received a radio message from the planet LV-426. This is initially interpreted as a call for help. While exploring the planet, the crew of the Nostromo discovers a strange but apparently abandoned spaceship.
Aliens - The Return
57 years later, in 2179, Ripley's rescue shuttle is recovered. Ripley initially struggles to explain her experience on LV-426. This planet has been colonized for several years now. Only when the radio contact is lost, a troop of soldiers together with Ripley is sent on the ship Sulaco to LV-426 to investigate the situation.
Alien 3
A fire broke out on board the Sulaco in the same year 2179. As a result, the sleeping pods are pushed off the mother ship by a rescue shuttle. It lands on Fury 161, a prison colony for male felons.
Alien - The rebirth
In 2379, Ellen Ripley was cloned by scientists aboard the Auriga with an alien queen in her stomach. Ripley unexpectedly survives the procedure in which the queen is removed. While the new Ripley, number 8, begins to study, the alien is reproducing. The necessary hosts are supplied in the form of colonists by the space pirates around Elgyn.
Prometheus - Dark Signs
In the year 2089, the archaeologist couple Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway found cave paintings all over the world with one and the same being, which always points to the same constellation. Shaw interprets this as an invitation from the so-called constructors to their home planet. The matching star system is Zeta 2 Reticuli , to which the two fly on board the Prometheus accompanied by other researchers, the android David and the representative of the Weyland sponsoring company, Meredith Vickers . Once there, they land on the moon LV-223 and examine pyramid-like structures that cannot be of natural origin.
Alien: Covenant
The spaceship Covenant is on a colonial mission in 2104. Due to an incident, repair work has to be carried out on the ship's sun shield. A crew member receives radio signals during these repairs. These signals can be interpreted and traced back. You seem to come from a planet that seems much better suited for a colonial mission and is much closer than the original destination. The crew decides to head for the new, unknown planet.
reception
Grossing results
| year | title | Box office earnings (worldwide) in US dollars |
Budget in US dollars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Alien - The creepy creature from a strange world | 104.931.801 | 11 million |
| 1986 | Aliens - The Return | 131.060.248 | 18.5 million |
| 1992 | Alien 3 | 159,814,498 | 50 million |
| 1997 | Alien - The rebirth | 161.376.068 | 75 million |
| 2012 | Prometheus - Dark Signs | 403.354.469 | 130 million |
| 2017 | Alien: Covenant | 240.745.764 | 97 million |
| total | 1,201,282,848 | 381.5 million | |
Reviews
| Movie | Rotten tomatoes | Metacritic | IMDb |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alien - The creepy creature from a strange world | 97% | 83% | 8.5 |
| Aliens - The Return | 98% | 86% | 8.4 |
| Alien 3 | 46% | 59% | 6.4 |
| Alien - The rebirth | 55% | 63% | 6.2 |
| Prometheus - Dark Signs | 73% | 64% | 7.0 |
| Alien: Covenant | 67% | 65% | 6.4 |
Awards (selection)
The films in the Alien series have been nominated eleven times for an Oscar and won three awards. The visual effects of Alien - The uncanny creature from a strange world and Aliens - The return were awarded. HR Giger was one of the winners . The third Oscar came in 1987 for the best sound editing of Aliens - The Return . In addition, Sigourney Weaver was nominated for best female lead in the same year . The last Oscar nomination was in 2013 for the film Prometheus - Dark Characters , for best visual effects. There were also two Golden Globe Award nominations and 13 BAFTA Film Award nominations. Two BAFTA awards went to Aliens - The Return and one went to Alien - The uncanny creature from an alien world .
- 1980 : Award in the category of best visual effects for Alien - The uncanny creature from an alien world
- 1980 : Nomination in the category best production design for Alien - The uncanny creature from a strange world
- 1987 : Award in the category Best visual effects for Aliens - The Return
- 1987 : Award in the category of best sound editing for Aliens - The Return
- 1987 : Nomination for Best Actress for Sigourney Weaver in Aliens: The Return
- 1987 : Nomination in the category of best sound editing for Aliens - The Return
- 1987 : Nomination in the category of best production design for Aliens - The Return
- 1987 : Nomination in the category of best film editing for Aliens - The Return
- 1987 : Nomination in the category of best film music for Aliens - The Return
- 1993 : Nomination for Best Visual Effects for Alien 3
- 2013 : Nomination in the Best Visual Effects category for Prometheus - Dark Signs
Crossover
| year | German title | Original title | Director | FSK classification | running time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossover | |||||
| 2004 | Alien vs. Predator | Alien vs. Predator | Paul WS Anderson | from 16 | 97 minutes |
| 2007 | Aliens vs. Predator 2 | Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem | Colin and Greg Strause | from 18 | 93 minutes |
Alien vs. Predator
In 2004, a satellite from the Weyland Group discovered a heat field in the Antarctic, which indicates a pyramid lying deep under the ice. The terminally ill founder of the company, Charles Bishop Weyland, decides to go down in history before his death and flies there with a team of security guards and researchers.
Aliens vs. Predator 2
From the killed Predator from the first part, a hybrid of Predator and Alien hatches, a so-called Predalien . It kills the crew of the Predator spaceship and, after crashing, escapes with some facehuggers into the woods near Gunnison , Colorado .
Grossing results
| year | title | Box office earnings (worldwide) in US dollars |
Budget in US dollars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Alien vs. Predator | 172.544.654 | 60 million |
| 2007 | Aliens vs. Predator 2 | 128,884,494 | 40 million |
| total | 301.429.148 | 100 million | |
Reviews
| Movie | Rotten tomatoes | Metacritic | IMDb |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alien vs. Predator | 20% | 29% | 5.6 |
| Aliens vs. Predator 2 | 12% | 29% | 4.7 |
Recurring characters
| role | title | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Alien (1979) |
Aliens (1986) |
Alien 3 (1992) |
Alien 4 (1997) |
Prometheus (2012) |
Alien: Covenant (2017) |
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| Ellen Ripley | Sigourney Weaver | |||||
| Captain Dallas Koblenz Arthur | Tom Skerritt | photography | ||||
| Navigator Joan Marie Lambert | Veronica Cartwright | photography | ||||
| Samuel Elias Brett | Harry Dean Stanton | photography | ||||
| Warrant Officer Gilbert Ward Kane | John Hurt | photography | ||||
| Ash | Ian Holm | photography | ||||
| Dennis Monroe Parker | Yaphet Kotto | photography | ||||
| Rebecca "Newt" Jorden | Carrie Henn | Danielle Edmond | Mentioned | |||
| Bishop | Lance Henriksen a | |||||
| Cpl. Dwayne Hicks | Michael Biehn | photography | ||||
| Dr. Elizabeth Shaw | Noomi Rapace | Photography b | ||||
| David | Michael Fassbender | |||||
| Peter Weyland | Guy Pearce | |||||
| Alien |
Bolaji Badejo , Eddie Powell |
Carl Toop, Chris Webb |
Tom Woodruff Jr. c , David Prior (Alien 4) |
Goran D. Kleut , Javier Botet , Andrew Crawford |
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| constructor | Ian Whyte the Elder | Various e | ||||
background
- The creation of the franchise is closely linked to Ridley Scott. The idea for the story and the script came from Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett .
- The film Alien - The uncanny creature from an alien world is credited for establishing a woman as the leading actress in the action genre . Director Ridley Scott made this a condition to direct the film.
- The alien itself was designed by the Swiss artist HR Giger ; The aliens are outwardly similar to a skeleton or of an appearance that HR Giger himself referred to as "biomechanoids". The alien's head is elongated and smooth, but it has no eyes; Giger wanted to prevent the use of the phrase “We are being watched”.
- The creature has no specific name or is not known. Instead, it is called alien and organism in the first film , later also monster , thing or the Xenomorph ( Greek xénos : strange / strange; morphé : shape / form), which is also popular with fans from film 2 .
- David Fincher made his debut as a feature film director in Alien 3 . However, he was not satisfied with the result because Fincher had to bow to many of the producers' wishes.
- In Predator 2 from 1990, it was suggested that the two film series Alien and Predator are set in the same series universe , since Danny Glover finds an alien skull there in the Predator's spaceship. From this allusion the idea for the crossover films arose.
- In February 2015, director Neill Blomkamp , who had previously attracted attention with his science fiction films District 9 and Elysium , announced that he would direct a fifth part of the main series for 20th Century Fox . Sigourney Weaver, with whom Blomkamp had already worked on Chappie , should also take over her role again. With the start of shooting of the second prequel Alien: Covenant , these plans were put on hold.
Trivia
- In almost every movie, the alien's number of fingers changes. If there were six fingers on each hand in the first film, this number is halved in Aliens , but they appear much longer and more skeletal. In The Rebirth there are finally four, two longer middle fingers, enclosed by two shorter ones.
- In 1980 the Italian film Alien, the seeds of horror is returning , the title suggests that it is a continuation of the 1979 film. However, there is nothing in common in terms of content.
- On the Scottish Paisley Abbey was during renovation work at the beginning of the 90's, under which most of the Gargoyle (Gargoyle Engl.) Were replaced, one of them made in the form of an alien.
- The first flight of the U.S. spaceship Crew Dragon in 2019 was an anthropomorphic device on board , which was named Ripley in allusion to the main alien character .
Alien in other media
literature
- Alan Dean Foster : Alien. The eerie creature from a strange world. Heyne Verlag, 1979, ISBN 978-3-453-30625-7 .
- Alan Dean Foster : Aliens, the return . Heyne Verlag, 1986, ISBN 978-3-453-02456-4 .
- Alan Dean Foster : Alien 3 . Heyne Verlag, 1992, ISBN 978-3-453-05615-2 .
- Tim Lebbon : Alien - In the shadows . Heyne Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-453-31561-7 .
- James A. More : Alien - Beyond the Stars . Heyne Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-453-31616-4 .
- Chris Roberson : Fire and Stone: Aliens . Cross Cult (Comic), 2015, ISBN 978-3-86425-681-3 .
- Paul Tobin : Fire and Stone: Prometheus . Cross Cult (Comic), 2015, ISBN 978-3-86425-680-6 .
- Christopher Golden : Alien - The Lost Planet . Heyne Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-453-31617-1 .
- Alan Dean Foster : Alien: Covenant . Heyne Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95835-222-3 .
Video games
- The story of Alien 3 is told in the Game Boy game of the same name .
- The first games around the crossover of Alien and Predator were developed as early as 1993 . The computer game Aliens versus Predator , published in 1999, achieved particular fame .
- In 1996, Alien Trilogy was released, a first-person shooter in which you can re-enact the plot of the first three films.
- The video game Alien: Isolation is located between the first and second films and tells part of the story of Ellen Ripley's daughter, Amanda Ripley.
radio play
- Alien - In den Schatten was released as a radio play in 2016.
- Alien - The Lost Planet was released as a radio play in 2017 under the title ALIEN - River of Death .
- Alien - Desert of Horror was released as a radio play in 2018
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d BoxOfficeMojo.com - Alien Series , accessed January 7, 2018
- ↑ Alien at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed May 6, 2018
- ↑ Alien (re-release) at Metacritic , accessed on May 6, 2018
- ^ Alien at IMDb , accessed May 6, 2018
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- ↑ Alien vs. Predator at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed May 6, 2018
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- ↑ Aliens vs. Predator 2 from Metacritic , accessed May 6, 2018
- ↑ Alien vs. Predator 2 at IMDb , accessed May 6, 2018
- ↑ The art of HR Giger still shapes science fiction films today
- ↑ Confirmed: Neill Blomkamp's next directorial work will be the newest part of the “Alien” franchise
- ↑ Alien 5: Sigourney Weaver goes hunting again ( Memento from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sigourney Weaver is back on the "alien" hunt
- ↑ Ridley Scott Announces Three More Alien Movies , accessed November 28, 2015
- ↑ Hollywood reporter , accessed November 28, 2015
- ↑ Even more alien - Ridley Scott is planning three prequels , filmstarts.de, accessed on November 28, 2015
- ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-23810978 'Alien' gargoyle on ancient abbey
- ↑ Space capsule: "Crew Dragon" SpaceX takes off into space - with a doll on board. In: Spiegel Online . March 2, 2019, accessed August 24, 2019 .