Alien News

Weyland-Yutani Archives: In this article, we will be taking a look at some of the deleted and alternate scenes not featured in the Alien 3 assembly cut. Some will be taken fro...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: In this part, we will be taking a look at some of the deleted, unfilmed and alternate scenes from the production storyboards which are based on the Ju...

Alien: Romulus 2 News: A new interview with Danny McBride has revealed that the crew of the USCSS Covenant is on a Colonization mission, not a rescue mission for the Pr...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: In December of 1987, James Cameron wrote an article for Starlog magazine entitled 'Answers about Aliens'. The purpose of the article was to answer que...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: JAMES CAMERON is the writer/director of ALIENS. Previously, he co-wrote (with Gale Anne Hurd) and directed Terminator. His first film as director was ...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: The December 1990 Hill and Giler draft feature a sequence in which Dillon and Morse accidentally walk into the alien's cocoon chamber. In this versio...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: With principal photography for Aliens closing in James Cameron still had nothing designed late in the film's pre-production. With nothing designed mea...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: Ridley Scott originally wanted all three alien forms to be translucent to match Giger's paintings. Giger started work on a translucent Facehugger. Rid...

Alien 5 News: Back in 2014, Poster Posse had a project for the 35th Anniversary of 'Alien'.  This artist, Andrew Swainson, submitted a couple different ones.&n...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: One scene appearing in various drafts of the Alien screenplay, and in the Ridleygrams, has Kane's corpse floating outside. One version takes place dur...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: Fresh from his work on "The Warriors," producer Walter Hill Discusses his role in the making of "Alien". By Bob Martin. Alien is not the initial ex...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: Alien 3 had one of the most tortuous pre-production periods of all the ALIEN movies. And a key figure caught up in the off-screen tribulations was HR ...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: As a producer and/or writer, Ronald Shusett’s credits include FREEJACK, TOTAL RECALL, KING KONG LIVES, and DEAD AND BURIED. But his most famous ...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: ADI claims to have redesigned Giger's Alien. By Tim Prokop Central to director David Fincher's concept for Alien 3 was the premise that the Alien t...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: A real horror show: The filming of Alien 3 was a nightmare for its director David Fincher. 'As I always say, things don't get clearer when you take t...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: THR: You recently received NATO's award as director of the year, and "Aliens" has grossed over $77 million. Do you have any projects on the back bur...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: Over the years, I've heard of many mythical scenes that have supposedly been filmed, lost, seen exclusively at crew/press screenings and even released...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: Alien 3 has so many inconsistencies and plot holes that it leaves not just the casual viewer asking question after question but for the hardcore fan t...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: If you've watched Alien 3 real close, you will notice two commandos that look strange and stick out from the rest. You first come across these two com...

Weyland-Yutani Archives: You will be familiar with Giger's early concept designs for the facehugger and chestburster. However, it wasn't Giger, who built or operated the two c...