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{\an8}From Alien, certainly as often is the case when you start doing sequels
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Aliens Expanded

{\an8}From Alien, certainly as often is the casewhen you start doing sequels, the people...

{\an8}From Alien, certainly as often is the case
when you start doing sequels, the people who do the original story
have no idea they're going to be sequels

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{\an8}From Alien, certainly as often is the case when you start doing sequels,
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the people who do the original story have no idea they're going to be sequels.
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03:21:15
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Apr 03, 2025
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An in-depth and innovative documentary that explores the story behind James Cameron's beloved sci-fi epic Aliens (1986) and its incredible impact.
So they don't think about maintaining a lot of the internal logic. - Aliens Expanded 00:06
So they don't think about maintaining a lot of the inte...
Nobody in Alien, for example, Dan O'Bannon or Ron Shusett, - Aliens Expanded 00:09
Nobody in Alien, for example, Dan O'Bannon or Ron Shuse...
{\an8}We talked a fair amount as artists about the lifecycle of the alien. - Aliens Expanded 00:08
{\an8}We talked a fair amount as artists about the lifecycle...
You saw some of it in the first film - Aliens Expanded 00:08
You saw some of it in the first film
Thank God that scene that was in the original - Aliens Expanded 00:14
Thank God that scene that was in the original
If that had been in there, you could have had no Queen - Aliens Expanded 00:07
If that had been in there, you could have had no Queen
This opens the way for a hierarchy - Aliens Expanded 00:09
This opens the way for a hierarchy
There was also an interesting thing that Cameron had - Aliens Expanded 00:08
There was also an interesting thing that Cameron had
They were small versions, three, four-foot tall aliens, - Aliens Expanded 00:09
They were small versions, three, four-foot tall aliens,
And for budgetary reasons and other reasons, it was never done. - Aliens Expanded 00:05
And for budgetary reasons and other reasons, it was never do...
Like, "Ooh, we get to make these albino drone characters." - Aliens Expanded 00:06
Like, "Ooh, we get to make these albino drone character...
It was a very logical, almost engineering way to look at it. - Aliens Expanded 00:05
It was a very logical, almost engineering way to look at it.
She lays hundreds of eggs, thousands of eggs, they hatch, - Aliens Expanded 00:08
She lays hundreds of eggs, thousands of eggs, they hatch,
And so there's hosts, - Aliens Expanded 00:21
And so there's hosts,
And to me coming from the first film where Ridley had - Aliens Expanded 00:14
And to me coming from the first film where Ridley had
And suddenly making a female out of it and choosing to use - Aliens Expanded 00:13
And suddenly making a female out of it and choosing to use
It made a lot of sense, - Aliens Expanded 00:07
It made a lot of sense,
{\an8}She's young, she's only been there for a couple of years. - Aliens Expanded 00:06
{\an8}She's young, she's only been there for a cou...
{\an8}Whatever emerged on that colony planet emerged quite rapidly. - Aliens Expanded 00:06
{\an8}Whatever emerged on that colony planet emerged quite r...
So she's a young inexperienced Queen - Aliens Expanded 00:08
So she's a young inexperienced Queen