Alien 3

Alien 3 (stylized as ALIEN³) is a British science fiction-horror movie. It was released on 22 May 1992.^[1] It was the debut feature movie of director David Fincher. Alien 3 movie stars Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dance, Charles S. Dutton and Lance Henriksen. It is a sequel to Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986). Alien 3 was by followed by Alien: Resurrection (1997).

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Plot

The movie continues the plot of the 1986 movie Aliens. Heading back to Earth a spacecraft has flight difficulties. It crash lands on a planet called Fiorina 161.^[2] The crash kills everyone aboard except Lieutenant Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver). Fiorina 161 is a planet where the temperature averages forty degrees below zero. It was a maximum security prison colony. A group of ex-prisoners chose to remain on the planet. They belong to a sect identified as "an apocalyptic millennarian fundamentalist Christian sect."^[2] The first thing Ripley has to do is shave her head because of the lice there. She is threatened by being the only female on the planet. While waiting for a rescue ship it is discovered that one of the aliens Ripley and the others were fighting before has found its way to Fiorina 161. A pet dog is the first victim. Then ex-prisoners begin disappearing. They have no weapons to fight the alien monster, only fire. Then Ripley learns she has a little alien inside her. Worse, it's a queen capable of producing thousands of eggs. Ripley thinks it happened while she was asleep in her pod.^[2] The creature, called a Xenomorph, refuses to kill Ripley because of the embryo inside her.^[3]

Cast

• Sigourney Weaver: Ripley^[4]
• Charles S. Dutton: Dillon^[4]
• Charles Dance: Clemens^[4]
• Paul McGann: Golic^[4]
• Brian Glover: Andrews^[4]
• Ralph Brown: Aaron^[4]
• Danny Webb: Morse^[4]
• Lance Henriksen: Bishop^[4]
• Chris Fairbank: Murphy^[4]
• Pete Postlethwaite: David^[4]
• Danielle Edmond: Newt^[4]

Production

The movie had a difficult production, with various screenwriters and directors getting involved in the project. Shooting began without a finished script. The movie was the big-budget debut for the young David Fincher. He was brought into the project after a proposed version with Vincent Ward at the helm was cancelled well into pre-production. Fincher had little time to prepare. The experience of making the movie proved agonizing for him.