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Alien Resurrection

1997 film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Film · TMDB

6.2

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.

Released: 1997-11-12109 minDir: Jean-Pierre JeunetScience Fiction, Horror, Action

Cast

Sigourney Weaver as Ripley
Winona Ryder as Call
Dominique Pinon as Vriess
Ron Perlman as Johner
Gary Dourdan as Christie
Michael Wincott as Elgyn

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Ratings · OMDb

IMDb

6.2/10

291,722 votes

Rotten Tomatoes

55%

Metacritic

62/100

Rated: R
Awards: 7 wins & 21 nominations total

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Key facts

Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Written by: Joss Whedon
Based on: Characters , by Dan O'Bannon Ronald Shusett
Produced by: Gordon Carroll David Giler Sigourney Weaver Walter Hill Bill Badalato
Starring: Sigourney Weaver Winona Ryder Ron Perlman Dan Hedaya J. E. Freeman Brad Dourif Michael Wincott
Cinematography: Darius Khondji
Edited by: Hervé Schneid
Music by: John Frizzell
Production companies: 20th Century Fox Brandywine Productions
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release dates: November 6, 1997 ( 1997-11-06 ) (Premiere) November 12, 1997 ( 1997-11-12 ) (France) November 26, 1997 ( 1997-11-26 ) (United States)
Running time

Key dates

Published: 27 November 1997

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: film
Part of: Alien (franchise)
Country of origin: United States
Original language: English language
Series: Alien (franchise)
Main subject: Xenomorph
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Screenwriter: Joss Whedon
Cast member: Tom Woodruff Jr.
Composer: John Frizzell

Article

Alien Resurrection is a 1997 American science fiction horror film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Joss Whedon, and starring Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder. It is the fourth installment of the Alien franchise, and was filmed at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles, California.

In the film, set 200 years after Alien 3 (1992), Ellen Ripley is cloned and an Alien queen is surgically removed from her body. The United Systems Military (USM) hopes to breed Aliens to study and research on the spaceship USM Auriga, using human hosts abducted and delivered to them by a group of mercenaries. The Aliens escape their enclosures, and Ripley and the mercenaries attempt to escape and destroy the Auriga before it reaches Earth. Additional roles are played by Ron Perlman, Dan Hedaya, J. E. Freeman, Brad Dourif, and Michael Wincott.