
Alien 3
Alien 3 (stylized as ALIEN or ALIEN³) 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.
Plot
Following the events of Aliens, an egg hatches aboard the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco, releasing a facehugger. A fire starts and the ship's computer launches an escape pod containing Ellen Ripley, Newt, Hicks, and the damaged android Bishop; all four are in cryonic stasis. The pod crash-lands on Fiorina "Fury" 161, a foundry and maximum-security correctional facility inhabited by male inmates with a genetic predisposition for antisocial behavior. The inmates recover the crashed pod and its passengers. The facehugger approaches inmate Thomas Murphy's dog, Spike.
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author | David Giler Larry Ferguson Walter Hill |
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award | Kurd Lasswitz Award for best foreign work |
contentLocation | Fiorina "Fury" 161 |
director | David Fincher |
editor | Terry Rawlings |
events | extraterrestrial life |
genre | adventure horror science fiction thriller |
keywords | alien alien queen android antisocial behavior autopsy biological warfare biological weapon biological weapons bishop claim cryonic cryonics dwayne hicks ellen ripley escape pod facehugger first aid room foundry garbage dump hick infirmary kill lead logbook prison warden record rescue sole survivor stasis thermal shock toxic waste turn weyland-yutani corporation |
musicBy | Elliot Goldenthal |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Visual Effects |
producer | David Giler Gordon Carroll Walter Hill |
productionCompany | Brandywine Productions |
publisher | 20th Century Fox |
recordedAt | Los Angeles |
theme | monster movie prison science fiction horror science fiction thriller sequel the future |