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Aliens (film)

Aliens
Aliens poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by James Cameron
Produced by Gale Anne Hurd
Screenplay by James Cameron
Story by
Based on Characters created
by Dan O'Bannon
Ronald Shusett
Starring
Music by James Horner
Cinematography Adrian Biddle
Edited by Ray Lovejoy
Production
companies
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • July 18, 1986 (1986-07-18)
Running time
137 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $17–18 million
Box office $131.1–183.3 million

Aliens is a 1986 American science fiction action horror film written and directed by James Cameron, produced by Gale Anne Hurd, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, and Bill Paxton. It is the sequel to the 1979 film Alien and the second installment in the Alien franchise. The film follows Weaver's character Ellen Ripley as she returns to the planet where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature, this time accompanied by a unit of space marines.

Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill of Brandywine Productions, who produced the first film and the later sequels, were executive producers of Aliens. They were interested in a follow-up to Alien as soon as its 1979 release, but the new management at 20th Century Fox postponed those plans until 1983. That year Brandywine picked Cameron to write after reading his script for The Terminator; when that film became a hit in 1984, Fox greenlit Aliens with Cameron as director and a budget of approximately $18 million. The script was written with a war film tone influenced by the Vietnam War to contrast the horror motifs of the original Alien. It was filmed in England at Pinewood Studios and at a decommissioned power plant in Acton, London.


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