Aliens Poster #28 FRAMED Dillon from Alien 3 Charles Dutton

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Charles S. Dutton as Dillon, one of Fiorina’s inmates who functions as the spiritual and de facto leader amongst the prisoners and attempts to keep the peace in the facility.

Alien 3 (stylized as Alien³) is a 1992 American science-fiction horror film and the debut feature film of director David Fincher. The film is the third installment of the Alien film series. The film takes place after the events of Aliens (1986). An escape pod from the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco crash-lands on a prison-run refinery planet, killing everyone aboard except Lieutenant Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver). Unknown to Ripley, an Alien organism was also aboard the escape pod, which then begins a killing spree in the prison.

The film had a difficult production, with various screenwriters and directors getting involved in the project, and shooting began without a finished script. The film was the big-budget debut of a young David Fincher, who was brought into the project after a proposed version with Vincent Ward at the helm was cancelled well into pre-production. Fincher had little time to prepare, and the experience of making the film proved agonizing for him. Besides the need to shoot and rewrite the script simultaneously while fitting in sets that had already been built, filming was also plagued by incessant creative interference from studio executives, who overruled many of Fincher’s decisions and dictated a large part of production. Fincher has since disowned the film, citing the aforementioned reasons. In 2003, a heavily revised version of the film, known as the Assembly Cut, was released without Fincher’s involvement.

While under-performing at the United States box office, it earned over $100 million outside of North America. An alternate version of Alien 3 (officially titled the “Assembly Cut”) with over 30 minutes of additional footage was released on the 9-disc Alien Quadrilogy box-set in 2003, and later in the Alien Anthology Blu-ray set in 2010. The film’s extended footage includes alternate key plot elements, extended footage and deleted scenes. Director David Fincher was the only director from the franchise who declined to participate in the box-set releases.

The Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco experiences an onboard fire and launches an escape pod containing Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) along with Newt, Hicks and the damaged android Bishop. All four are in cryonic stasis. The pod then crashes on Fiorina ‘Fury’ 161, a foundry facility and penal colony inhabited by all-male inmates with “double-Y” chromosome patterns, and histories of physical and sexual violence. After some inmates recover the pod and its passengers, an Alien facehugger is seen approaching the prison dog. Ripley is taken in and awakened by Clemens (Charles Dance), the prison doctor, and is told she is the only survivor of the crash. Many of the ex-inmates, led by Dillon (Charles S. Dutton), have embraced an apocalyptic, millenarian version of Christianity.

“Take off. I gotta re-educate some of the brothers.” ?Dillon to Ripley, after saving her from a gang rape attempt.

Leonard Dillon was an inmate at the Fiorina “Fury” 161 Class C Work Correctional Unit, one of several who stayed behind after the facility was officially closed down by Weyland-Yutani. He was involved in battling a lone Xenomorph that was born in the prison in 2179.

Dillon acted as something of a religious leader and preacher among the remaining inmates, leading them in prayer and overseeing their social harmony. When the prison’s warden Superintendent Andrews was killed, Dillon became a reluctant leader for the survivors, despite initially refusing the role. He ultimately sacrificed himself to help kill the Xenomorph on Fiorina 161.

Charles Stanley Dutton (born January 30, 1951) is an American stage, film, and television actor and director, best known for his roles as “Fortune” in the film Rudy, “Dillon” in Alien 3, and the title role in the television sitcom Roc (1991–1994).

In his youth, Dutton dropped out of school before finishing middle school. He had a short-lived stint as an amateur boxer with the nickname “Roc.” When he was 17, he got into a fight which resulted in the death of a man Dutton claimed had attacked him. Dutton was charged and convicted of manslaughter, and he spent the next seven years in prison. Several months after being released from prison, Dutton was arrested for possession of a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to three years in prison.After his time at Towson, Dutton earned a master’s degree in acting from the Yale School of Drama. Dutton co-starred in Alien 3, the debut film of director David Fincher.

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