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Alien: Resurrection (1997)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1996 - 1997
Running Times: 109 mins
Format: Technicolor Super 35mm (Kodak)
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: DTS Dolby Digital
SELECTED CREDITS
(Full Credits)
 PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Twentieth Century Fox/Brandywine Productions
Ltd
Executive Producer (Blue Sky Studios): Amy J. Jupiter
Executive Producer (Duboi): Antoine Simkine
Producers: Bill Badalato, Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill
Producer (Hunter/Gratzner): Lisa Knaggs
Producer (Duboi): Edouard Valton
SCRIPT
Script: Joss Whedon
Characters: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett
DIRECTION
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Darius Khondji
Underwater Photography: Pete Romano
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Hervé Schneid
MUSIC
Music: John C. Frizzell, Jerry Goldsmith (from Alien (1979))
SOUND
Sound Designer: Leslie Shatz
Sound Effects Designer: Paul Urmson
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Bill Myer, Mike Smithsen
Key Hair: Jason Joseph Sica
Costume Designer: Bob Ringwood
SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Original Alien Designer: H.R. Giger
Alien Effects: Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr, Ken Niederbaumer
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Blue Sky Studios; All Effects Company
Digital Visual Effects: Duboi; Digiscope
Miniatures: Hunter Gratzner Industries Inc
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Design Supervisor: Marc Caro
Production Designer: Nigel Phelps
STUNTS
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Ernie F. Orsatti
CAST
Sigourney Weaver (Ripley)
Winona Ryder (Annalee Call)
Dominique Pinon (Vriess)
Ron Perlman (Johner)
Gary Dourdan (Christian)
Michael Wincott (Elgyn)
Kim Flowers (Hillard)
Dan Hedaya (General Perez)
J.E. Freeman (Dr Wren)
Brad Dourif (Dr Gediman)
Raymond Cruz (DiStephano)
Leland Orser (Purvis)
PLOT SUMMARY
200 years after the events at Fury 3, and on their eighth attempt,
a team of scientists succeeds in cloning Ripley from a blood sample
taken during her stay in the penal colony. The result is an altogether
different Ripley, with incredible strength, black fingernails and enhanced
intuition, all inherited from the trace of alien queen DNA mixed in
with her own. The driving force behind the experiment, the United System
Military, have hired a group of mercenaries to smuggle abducted humans
to the laboratory ship for use in their experiments and before long,
the aliens are loose and up to their old tricks.
CAPSULE REVIEW
A visually arresting but soulless and derivative film, Alien Resurrection
is a a huge disappointment, despite the undoubted visual ingenuity of
Delicatessen (1991) and La cité des
enfants perdus (1995) co-director Jeunet. There's
nothing here that we haven't already seen so many times before in the
series (Sigourney Weaver runs around a large spaceship pursued by slobbering
ETs) and for all of Jeunet's panache as a director, the old-hat story
simply never engages. And as for that ending - what was once the cinema's
scariest monster is now reduced to a mewling freak who just wants a
hug from his mummy... Oh dear...
AVAILABILITY
Finland
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia TriStar Egmont Film Distributors
France
Theatrical Distributor: UGC-Fox Distribution
Germany
Theatrical Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox of Germany
DVD Distributor: USA - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (The
Alien Legacy)
Portugal
Theatrical Distributor: Filmes Castello Lopes
Finland
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia TriStar Egmont Film Distributors
France
Theatrical Distributor: UGC-Fox Distribution
Germany
Theatrical Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox of Germany
DVD Distributor: USA - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (The
Alien Legacy)
Portugal
Theatrical Distributor: Filmes Castello Lopes
Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Hispano Foxfilm, S.A.E.
UK
Laserdisc Distributor: Encore (EE1230)
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Video Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Laserdisc Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (0032584);
(0032585)
DVD Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (4110439 -
The Alien Legacy; 4110433)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: MA
Chile
Rating: 18
Finland
Rating: K-16
France
Rating: -12
Germany
Rating: 16
Hong Kong
Rating: IIB
Netherlands
Rating: 16
New Zealand
Rating: R16
Norway
Rating: 15
Portugal
Rating: M/16
Spain
Rating: 18
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: 18
USA
Rating: R (for strong sci-fi violence and gore, some grotesque images,
and for language)
AWARDS
1997
Bogey Awards, Germany
Bogey Award - winner
1998
Academy of Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Films, USA (Saturn Awards)
Best Actress (Sigourney Weaver) - nominated
Best Director (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) - nominated
Best Supporting Actress (Winona Ryder) - nominated
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
Favorite Supporting Actress - Sci-Fi (Winona Ryder) - winner
Favorite Actress - Sci-Fi (Sigourney Weaver) - nominated
Golden Satellite Awards
Best Motion Picture - Animated or Mixed Media (Bill Badalato, Gordon
Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill) - nominated
TIMELINE
1996
November
20: USA - filming begins
1997
May
Day Unknown: USA - filming ends
November
6: France - world premiere in Paris
12: France - theatrical release
12: Switzerland - theatrical release in French speaking region
26: Spain - theatrical release
26: USA - theatrical release
27: Germany - theatrical release
27: Netherlands - theatrical release
27: Singapore - theatrical release
28: Austria - theatrical release
28: Ireland - theatrical release
28: Sweden - theatrical release
28: Switzerland - theatrical release German speaking region
28: UK - theatrical release
December
3: Belgium - theatrical release
5: Denmark - theatrical release
5: Israel - theatrical release
1998
January
1: Australia - theatrical release
8: New Zealand - theatrical release
9: Estonia - theatrical release
10: South Korea - theatrical release
12: Poland - theatrical release
15: Slovakia - theatrical release
16: Norway - theatrical release
23: Iceland - theatrical release
27: Thailand - theatrical release
28: Taiwan - theatrical release
29: Slovenia - theatrical release
February
5: Mexico - theatrical release
12: Hungary - theatrical release
20: Portugal - shown at the Fantasporto Film Festival
26: Hong Kong - theatrical release
27: Italy - theatrical release
27: Portugal - theatrical release
27: Switzerland - theatrical release in Italian speaking region
March
4: Kuwait - theatrical release
6: Finland - theatrical release
20: Greece - theatrical release
April
9: Argentina - theatrical release
9: Brazil - theatrical release
25: Japan - theatrical release
May
1: Colombia - theatrical release
June
3: USA - laserdisc release (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
(0032585))
July
1: USA - laserdisc release (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
(0032584))
1999
March
15: UK - laserdisc distributor (Laserdisc Distributor: Encore (EE1230))
June
1: USA - DVD release (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (4110439
- The Alien Legacy); (4110433))
2000
May
25: Germany - DVD release (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
- The Alien Legacy)
POSTER TAGS
Witness the resurrection.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Alien 4 - working title
Alien: Die Wiedergeburt - German title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Alienł (1992)
Alien: Resurrection (2000)
SEE ALSO
Blade Runner (1982)
La cité des enfants
perdus (1995)
Curse of the Fly (1965)
Cut (1999)
Dune (1984)
The Green Slime (1969)
Muppets From Space (1999)
The Mutations (1973)
Species II (1998)
Taxi Driver (1976)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Cinefantastique May 1996 p.5 (UK)
note
Cinefantastique vol.29 no.12 (April 1998)
pp.5; 40-41, 43 (USA)
illustrated article; illustrated article
Cinefantastique vol.30 no.1 (May 1998)
pp.28-31 (USA)
illustrated article
Cinefantastique vol.36 no.1 (February
/March 2004) pp.58-59 (USA)
illustrated DVD review
CinémAction no.112 (2004) (France)
illustrated article
Creative Screenwriting vol.5 no.4 (July
/August 1998) p.54 (USA)
illustrated article
Empire July 1997 pp.12-13 (UK)
review
Empire January 1998 p.34 (UK)
review (by Ian Nathan)
Empire no.108 (June 1998) p.134 (UK)
illustrated review
Empire no.114 (December 1998) p.156 (UK)
review
Empire no.132 (June 2000) pp.124-125
(UK)
illustrated DVD review
Empire no.161 (November 2002) pp.164-169
(UK)
illustrated article
Empire no.167 (May 2003) pp.126-127 (UK)
illustrated article
Empire no.175 (January 2004) pp.190-191
(UK)
illustrated DVD review
Fangoria no.186 (September 1999) p.58
(USA)
illustrated DVD review
Film Review January 1998 p.17 (UK)
review (by Jason Caro)
Film Review June 1998 p.71 (UK)
illustrated review
Film Score Monthly vol.9 no.2 (February
2004) pp.44-46 (USA)
illustrated article
Hollywood Reporter 4 February 1997 p.15
(USA)
review
Imagenes January 1998 p.118 (Spain)
review (by Quim Casas)
Metro no.116 (1998) pp.30-35 (Australia)
illustrated article
New Review of Film and Television vol.1
no.1 (November 2003) pp.101-130 (UK)
article
Premičre December 1997 p.35 (France)
review (by Éric Libiot)
Premičre no.281 (Summer 2000) p.117 (France)
illustrated article
Premiere vol.10 no.8 (April 1997) pp.30-31
(USA)
illustrated production notes (Resident Alien)
Premiere vol.17 no.5 (February 2004)
p.91 (USA)
illustrated DVD review
Screen vol.40 no.1 (Spring 1999) pp.38-50
(UK)
article
Screen vol.44 no.3 (Autumn 2003) pp.251-276
(UK)
illustrated article
SFX 30 (Spoiler Zone) p.4 (UK)
review
Sight and Sound June 1996 p.5 (UK)
note
Sight and Sound vol.10 no.5 (May 2000)
p.66 (USA)
DVD review
Sight and Sound vol.14 no.2 (February
2004) p.68 (UK)
illustrated article, DVD review
Soundtrack! The Collector's Quarterly
vol.17 no.67 (September 1998) pp.32-34 (Belgium)
illustrated interview
Starburst no.267 (November 2000) pp.36-43
(UK)
illustrated article
Studio December 1997 p.12 (France)
review (by Thierry Klifa)
Total Film November 1997 pp.14-15 (UK)
illustrated article
Total Film January 1998 p.90 (UK)
review (by Andy Lowe)
Vox Magazin February 1998 pp.29-31 (Hungary)
review (by László Horváth)
NEWSPAPERS
A Capital 27 February 1998 (Portugal)
review (bu Rui Brazuna)
Diário de Notícias, Programas 27 February
1998 (Portugal)
review (by José De Matos-Cruz)
Svenska Dagbladet 28 November 1997 (Sweden)
review (Obändig livskraft tar över by Jeanette Gentele)
BOOKS
The A-Z of Science Fiction and Fantasy Films p.15
credits, review
Film Review 1998 - 1999 pp.15-16
credits, review
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military, mutations, scientists, regeneration, human duplication, space,
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Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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