In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we continue our series on the “Alien” franchise as we take an express elevator to hell where it’s game over, man, as we review the 1986 sequel “Aliens”…
It took four years after Ridley Scott’s smash hit “Alien” first landed in theaters for producers to begin pitching ideas for a potential sequel.
At the time, a young director and screenwriter named James Cameron was starting to get buzz around Hollywood for a script he had written called “The Terminator.”
It turned out, Cameron had already started working on his own science-fiction script titled “Mother” that felt like it could be set in the same un6iverse as “Alien.”
He got the greenlight to pen a script for an “Alien” sequel at the same time he was hired to write “Rambo: First Blood Part II.” Over the next three months, Cameron furiously hammered away at both scripts while putting the finishing touches on “The Terminator” before production started.
Once he handed in his draft, the studio decided to move forward on the project but because Cameron was still a relative newcomer, he was only handed an $18 million budget so he had to make every dollar count.
The sequel focused on Ripley returning to the planet LV-426, this time alongside a group of Colonial Marines, sent to investigate colonists that discovered the same derelict spacecraft that doomed the crew of the Nostromo…
In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we continue our series on the “Alien” franchise as we take an express elevator to hell where it’s game over, man, as we review the 1986 sequel “Aliens”…
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