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Jul 22, 2016 · Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi/horror epic Alien gave audiences something they'd never quite seen before. The film benefited from the release of Star Wars two years earlier. After the George Lucas fantasy became the biggest movie ever, science-fiction came back into vogue, and 20th Century Fox went looking for more pictures in the genre to greenlight.
- Mike Mcgranaghan
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. It follows a spaceship crew who investigate a derelict spaceship and are hunted by a deadly extraterrestrial creature.
Oct 26, 2003 · Alien. A discovery on an alien planet in "Alien." At its most fundamental level, “Alien” is a movie about things that can jump out of the dark and kill you. It shares a kinship with the shark in “ Jaws,” Michael Myers in “ Halloween,” and assorted spiders, snakes, tarantulas and stalkers. Its most obvious influence is Howard Hawks ...
After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform. In the distant future, the commercial spaceship "Nostromo" crew is on its way home when the crew picks up a distress call from a distant moon.
Jul 13, 2020 · In the timeline of the Alien world, The Engineers visited Earth sometime roughly between 4 billion and 2 million BC, leaving one of their own behind, and as his body broke down, his DNA entered the water, recombining to create life on Earth.
Aug 21, 2024 · Alien begins on the intergalactic mining vessel the Nostromo, as it hauls massive amounts of harvested mineral ore to Earth, its slumbering crew in cryo-sleep for the long journey. The ship's AI,...
After the staff of the merchant's vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew members attacked by a mysterious lifeform, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.