Summary
A mindless, savage, and merciless alien is attacking the crew of an intergalactic freighter and it must be stopped before they are all killed.Contents
Disc 1. Director's cut (117 min., 2003); Theatrical version (116 min., 1979)Disc 2. Behind the scenes featurettes.
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Monsters
-- Drama.
Human-alien encounters -- Drama. Feature films. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Science fiction films. |
| Publisher | Beverly Hills, Calif. :Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,2003 |
| Edition | Director's cut, Widescreen. |
| Contributors |
Carroll, Gordon,
1928-2005, producer. Giler, David, producer. Hill, Walter, 1942- producer. O'Bannon, Dan, screenplay. Shusett, Ronald, screenplay. Scott, Ridley, director. Skerritt, Tom, actor. Weaver, Sigourney, 1949- actor. Cartwright, Veronica, actor. Stanton, Harry Dean, 1926-2017 actor. Hurt, John, 1940-2017 actor. Holm, Ian, 1931-2020 actor. Kotto, Yaphet, 1939-2021 actor. Goldsmith, Jerry, composer. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, production company. Brandywine (Firm), production company. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., publisher. |
| Participants/Performers |
Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto. |
| Other Contributors |
Music, Jerry Goldsmith. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: R. |
| Language |
English Spanish In English or Spanish; with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned. |
| Notes |
Title from container. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979. Special features: (Disc 1) Full-length audio commentary by director Ridley Scott, writer Dan O'Bannon, executive producer Ronald Shusett, editor Terry Rawlings, actors Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt (for both versions); introduction by Ridley; (Disc 2) Behind-the-scenes featurettes, including --"Star beast : developing the story"; "The visualists : direction and design"; "Truckers in space : casting"; "The eighth passenger: creature design"; Sigourney Weaver screen test; "The Chesterbuster : creature design"; multi-angle scene studies; still photo galleries; deleted and extended scenes and more. |
| System Details |
DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; 5.1 Dolby surround, 5.1 DTS, Dolby surround. |
| Description |
2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Other | Classic View |