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 One of the seminal motion pictures of the science-fiction and action genres hit theaters on this date in 1986.

And it still holds its own four full decades later.  Aliens is going to prove to be as timeless as its predecessor.  I love pretty much everything about this movie.

Bit of a side note: a week and a half before 9/11 I had dinner with Jenette Goldstein, the amazing actress who played Vasquez.  She’s an absolutely delightful woman.

Happy anniversary Aliens.  And no doubt we will be enjoying you just as much forty more years from now as we do today.

 

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YES!!!

Holy cow, this is a SERIOUS dream of mine come true! For literally decades I’ve been saying that there needs to be an entry in the Alien franchise
that picks up after Aliens and totally ignores that Alien 3, Alien Resurrection
etc. ever happened.

And now it’s actually happening!!

It began two months ago when Neil Blomkamp (director of District 9 and the upcoming Chappie) twittered some concept art he had quietly been commissioning for his vision of what an Alien movie should look like.  An Alien movie where Ripley and Hicks made it back and thus totally repudiating Alien 3.

Here’s some of what Blomkamp had in mind:

Needless to say, the response those pics engendered was one of frenetic approval.  Throughout social media and across reams of websites the message to Fox was clear: “we demand that Neil Blomkamp make a proper Alien movie!”...

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