Alien

Alien (franchise)

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The Alien film series is a science fiction horror film franchise, focusing on Lieutenant Ellen Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver) and her battle with an extraterrestrial lifeform, commonly referred as "the Alien". Produced by 20th Century Fox, the series started with the 1979 film Alien , which led to three movie sequels, plus numerous books, comics and video game spinoffs.

In addition to the franchise are the "Alien vs. Predator" films ( Alien vs. Predator and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem ), based on the related franchise which combine the Aliens with the Predator beings from the Predator film series.

Films

Alien (1979)

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The spaceship Nostromo goes to the desolated planetoid LV-426 after receiving an unknown signal from a derelict alien spacecraft. Whilst exploring the ship, one of the Nostromo ' s crewmen discovers an egg-like object, which releases a creature that attaches itself to his face and renders him unconscious. Some time later, the parasite dies and the crewman wakes up, seemingly fine. However, an alien creature later bursts out of the crewman's chest and, after rapidly growing into an eight-foot creature, begins killing the rest of the crew.

Aliens (1986)

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Lieutenant Ellen Ripley, the only survivor of the Nostromo , awakens on Earth 57 years later from hypersleep, only to discover that LV-426 is now home of a terraforming colony. However, contact with the colony has been lost, and Ripley accompanies a squad of space marines there.

Alien 3 (1992)

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Due to an on-board fire aboard the ship that escaped from LV-426 at the end of the second film, an escape pod is released and crash-lands on a refinery/prison planet named Fiorina "Fury" 161. Everyone on board dies in the crash except Ripley. Unbeknownst to Ripley, an Alien egg was aboard the ship, and the creature is born in the prison and begins a killing spree. Ripley later discovers there is also an alien growing inside her.

Alien Resurrection (1997)

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Two hundred years after the incidents of the previous installment, Ellen Ripley is cloned and an Alien queen is surgically removed from her body. The United Systems Military hopes to breed Aliens to study and research on the spaceship USM Auriga , using human hos