Description
Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley: A former warrant officer, and the sole survivor of an Alien attack on her ship, the Nostromo. Weaver reprised her role from Alien. She received a Saturn Award for best actress for her performance and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, her first Academy Award nomination.
Michael Biehn as Corporal Dwayne Hicks: One of the Colonial Marines’ squad leaders; he was hastily cast a week after filming had commenced, and thus was not present for the military training that the other actors playing marines went through James Remar was originally cast as Hicks but left the project over creative differences with Cameron.
Paul Reiser as Carter J. Burke: A representative from the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, sent to investigate LV-426.
Lance Henriksen as Bishop: An android serving as the executive officer aboard the Sulaco.
Bill Paxton as Private William Hudson: The Marine team’s technician. He received a Saturn Award for best supporting actor.
William Hope as Lieutenant William Gorman: The marines’ inexperienced commanding officer.
Ricco Ross as Private Ricco Frost: A member of the Colonial Marines.
Al Matthews as Sergeant Al Apone: One of the Marines’ commanding officers. Matthews attributed his casting to his military experience.
Aliens Marines cast also features Jenette Goldstein as Private Jenette Vasquez (she received a Saturn Award for best supporting actress), Mark Rolston as Private Mark Drake, Colette Hiller as Corporal Collette Ferro, Daniel Kash as Private Daniel Spunkmeyer, Cynthia Dale Scott as Corporal Cynthia Dietrich, the marines’ corpsman, Tip Tipping as Private Tim Crowe, and Trevor Steedman as Private Trevor Wierzbowski.
Aliens is a 1986 American science-fiction action horror film written and directed by James Cameron, produced by his then-wife Gale Anne Hurd, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, and Bill Paxton. It is the sequel to the 1979 film Alien and the second installment of the Alien franchise. The film follows Weaver’s character Ellen Ripley as she returns to the planet where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature, this time accompanied by a unit of space marines.
Aliens was a critical and commercial success, with positive reviews that considered it an entertaining film that despite the tonal shift still served as a worthy sequel to Alien, and grossed $180 million worldwide. The movie was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including a Best Actress nomination for Sigourney Weaver, winning both Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects. It won eight Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Actress for Weaver and Best Direction and Best Writing for Cameron. Aliens is frequently considered one of the best action films ever released.
Frame is shrinkwrapped until time of purchase. Ships boxed with packing peanuts.
THE PERFECT GIFT!