Alien Franchise: The Ripley Saga

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Introducing our Forgotten Cinema: Lead Up series. This series highlights either a set of movies (or maybe one movie) that wer revisit before we watch the latest installment for our Now Showing Series. For example, when we did the Now Showing for Gladiator II, we also did a Lead Up for Gladiator.

Over the summer, we took on the Alien franchise leading up to the latest release, Alien: Romulus, which we did for a Now Showing episode. Yes, we did ALL of them. Out now is what we're calling: The Ripley Saga — Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection.

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Alien

Story by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett

Screenplay by Dan O'Bannon

Directed by Ridley Scott

Starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto

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Aliens

Story by James Cameron and David Giler & Walter Hill

Screenplay by James Cameron

Directed by James Cameron

Starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton

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Alien 3

Story by Vincent Ward

Screenplay by David Giler & Walter Hill and Larry Ferguson

Directed by David Fincher

Starring Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover, Lance Henriksen

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Alien: Resurrection

Written by Joss Whedon

Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Starring Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary Dourdan, Michael Wincott, Den Hedaya, Brad Dourif