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Alien 3
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1992 film directed by David Fincher
"Alien 3" is a 1992 science fiction film directed by David Fincher that continues the "Alien" franchise with the character Ellen Ripley facing the xenomorph creature once again. The film is notable as an early major studio release for then-unknown director Fincher, marking his feature film directorial debut.
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6.4After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.
Cast
- Sigourney Weaver as Ripley
- Charles S. Dutton as Dillon
- Charles Dance as Clemens
- Paul McGann as Golic
- Brian Glover as Andrews
- Ralph Brown as Aaron
Themes
- prison
- android
- spacecraft
- dystopia
- imprisonment
- space travel
- space colony
- redemption
- rottweiler
- sequel
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Ratings
IMDb
6.4/10
351,875 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
44%
Metacritic
59/100
- Year
- 1992
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Genres
- Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 25 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- David Fincher
- Screenplay by
- David Giler Walter Hill Larry Ferguson
- Story by
- Vincent Ward
- Based on
- Characters , by Dan O'Bannon Ronald Shusett
- Produced by
- Gordon Carroll David Giler Walter Hill
- Starring
- Sigourney Weaver Charles S. Dutton Charles Dance Lance Henriksen
- Cinematography
- Alex Thomson
- Edited by
- Terry Rawlings
- Music by
- Elliot Goldenthal
- Production company
- Brandywine Productions
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
- Release date
- May 22, 1992 ( 1992-05-22 )
- Running time
- 114 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $50–60 million
- Box office
- $159.8–180 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 114
- FilmAffinity ID
- 242911
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- publication date
- 1992-09-03
- title
- ALIEN³
- Commons category
- Alien 3
- box office
- 159814498
- capital cost
- 50000000
- review score
- 59/100
- stylized name
- ALIEN³
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Alien 3 (stylized as ALIEN) is a 1992 American science fiction horror film directed by David Fincher and written by David Giler, Walter Hill, and Larry Ferguson, from a story by Vincent Ward. Starring Sigourney Weaver reprising her role as Ellen Ripley, it is the third installment of the Alien franchise.
Set immediately after the events of Aliens (1986), Ripley and an Alien organism are the only survivors of the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco following an escape pod's crash on a planet housing a penal colony populated by violent male inmates. Additional roles are played by Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Ralph Brown, Paul McGann, Danny Webb, Lance Henriksen, Holt McCallany, Pete Postlethwaite, and Danielle Edmond. The film had a troubled production, facing numerous problems, including shooting without a script and the attachment of various screenwriters and directors. Fincher, in his feature directorial debut, was eventually brought in to direct after a proposed version with Ward as director was canceled during pre-production.