I've been waiting like 6 months for this, not expecting it to be released until next year. I know what's going on my x-mas list.

Release date: Dec 2nd.

DVD Features:
Discs 1-2: Alien (1979)

Theatrical version (117 min.)

Extended cut (seamlessly branched) (137 min.)

Commentary by Ridley Scott and technical crew

1.85 anamorphic, English 5.1 DTS, English 5.1 Dolby Digital, Spanish 2.0 Surround, THX Certified

Preproduction: Star Beast (developing the story), First Draft of Screenplay by Dan O'Bannon, The Visualists (direction and design), Ridleygrams (original thumbnails & notes), storyboard archive, Art of Alien (Cobb, Foss, Giger, Moebius), Truckers in Space (casting), Sigourney Weaver's screen test with optional commentary by Ridley Scott, cast portrait gallery

Production: Fear of the Unknown (Shepperton Studios, 1978), production gallery, The Darkest Reaches (Nostromo and alien planet), The Sets of Alien, The Eighth Passenger (creature design), The Chestburster (creature design)

Post-Production: Future Tense (music and editing), 8 deleted scenes, visual effects gallery (photo archive), A Nightmare Fulfilled (reaction to the film), poster explorations, special shoot, premiere

Discs 3-4: Aliens (1986)

Theatrical version (137 min.)

Extended version (154 min.)

Commentary by Michael Biehn, Jenette Goldstein, Carrie Henn, Terry Henn, Lance Henriksen, Gale Anne Hurd, Pat McClung, Bill Paxton, Dennis Skotak, Robert Skotak and Stan Winston

2.35 anamorphic, English 5.1 Dolby Digital, Spanish 2.0 Surround, THX Certified

Pre-Production: 57 Years Later (continuing the story), Original Treatment: by James Cameron, Building Better Worlds (from concept to construction), The Art of Aliens (conceptual art portfolio), Pre-Vis Anamatics,

Preparing for Battle (casting & characterization), Cast Portait (still gallery)

Production: This Time It's War (Pinewood Studios, 1985),

Production Gallery (photo archive), Continuity Polaroids, The Risk Always Lives (weapons and action), Weapons and Vehicles (photo archive), Bug Hunt (creature design), Beauty and the Bitch (Power Loader vs. Queen Alien), Stan Winston's Workshop (photo archive), Two Orphans (Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn)

Post-Production: The Final Countdown (music, editing and sound), The Power of Real Tech (visual effects), Visual Effects Gallery (photo archive), Aliens Unleashed (reaction to the film), Film Finish & Release, Easter egg (A Boy and His Power Loader)

Discs 5-6: Alien 3 (1992)

Theatrical version (114 min.)

Restored work print version (155 min.)

Commentary by Terry Rawlings and crew

2.35 anamorphic, English 5.1 Dolby Digital, Spanish 2.0 Surround, THX Certified

Pre-Production: Development (concluding the story), Tales of the Wooden Planet (Vincent Ward's vision), The Art of Aceron (conceptual art portfolio), pre-production part III featurette, storyboards, Art of Fiorina, Xeno-Erotic (H.R. Giger's redesign featurette)

Production: Production part I featurette, Production Gallery (photo archive), Furnace Construction (time-lapse sequence), Adaptive Organism (creature design), ADI Workshop, E.E.V. Scan Multi-Angle Vignette, Production part II

Post-Production: Post-Production part I, Optical Fury (visual effects), Music, Editing and Sound, Visual Effects (photo archive), Post-Mortem (reaction to the film), Special Shoot

Discs 7-8: Alien Resurrection (1997)

Theatrical version (109 min.)

Extended cut (119 min.)

Commentary by Jean Pierre Junet and crew

Intro (extended cut only)

2.35 anamorphic, English 5.1 DTS, English 5.1 Dolby Digital, Spanish 2.0 Surround, THX Certified

Pre-Production: From the Ashes (reviving the story), First Draft Screenplay by Joss Whedon, French Twist (direction and design), Under the Skin (casting and characterization), Test Footage #1 (hair/makeup), ADI Effects, Mark Carro Photo Gallery, The Art of Resurrection (conceptual art gallery), storyboards, Pre-Visualizations (multi-angle rehearsals)

Production: Death from Below (underwater photography), In the Zone (the basketball scene), production gallery (photo archive), Unnatural Mutation (creature design), ADI Workshop, ADI Test Footage

Post-Production: Genetic Composition (music), Virtual Aliens (computer generated imagery), A Matter of Scale (miniature photography), Visual Effects Gallery (photo archive), Critical Juncture (reaction to the film), Special Shoot (promotional photo archive), Easter egg (Alien extra)

Disc 9: Bonus disc

ALIEN:

Alien Legacy , Alien Evolution, Experience in Terror (promotional featurette '79), Ridley Scott Q&A

Alien Laser Disc Archive: Part I (pre-production), Part II (production), Part III (post-production), theatrical trailer A, theatrical trailer B, TV spot (Egg), TV spot (Now Playing)

ALIENS:

Aliens Laser Disc Archive: Part I (pre-production), Part II (production), Part III (post-production), theatrical trailer A, teaser trailer, domestic trailer, international trailer, TV spot (Now Playing)

ALIEN 3:

6 trailers, 7 TV spots

ALIEN RESURRECTION:

Theatrical teaser, 2 theatrical trailers, 4 TV spots, Bob Burns Alien Collection

Dark Horse Still Gallery

DVD-ROM (script to screen comparison)

Widescreen anamorphic format

Number of discs: 9

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...0VCZK2/102-1882771-2984942?v=glance

Theres been an Alien box set for years.

this is the QUADdrilogy = all 4 movies, 9 disc's total!

cut and uncut version of each movie.

over 44 hours of bonus material.


the 'alien legacy' boxset just includes the 4 original movies.

oh, thats pretty cool then.

They should release a box set with nothing but the Bill Paxton scenes from Aliens.
There should be at least 75 discs, with over 4,000 hours of deleted scenes and promotional shots of Bill Paxton taking on the aliens with a fury previous thought impossible.

Bill Paxton: the man.

haha yeah, he's such a pussy in aliens it's great.

hudson = bill paxton

"Well that's great, that's just fuckin' great man, now what the fuck are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty shit now man... That's it man, game over man, game over, man! Game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do? " - hudson

"Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen!" - hudson

"We're on an express elevator to Hell! Goin' down!" - hudson

"Hey, maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked pal!" - hudson

"Come on! Come on! Come and get it, baby! Come on! Let's go, yeah, come on! Come on! Come and get it you bastards! Come on, you too! Oh, you want some of this? Fuck you!" - hudson



another good scene:

Ripley: Well, someone's gonna have to go down there, take a portable transmitter and patch in.
Hudson: Yeah, sure, with those things running around? You can count me out.
Hicks: Well I guess we can count you out of everything then.
Hudson: That's right, man.
Bishop: I'll go. I mean, I'm the only one qualified to remote-pilot the ship anyway.
Hudson: That's right, man, Bishop should go. Good idea!

hahahahaha!

Who would win in a fight?

Hicks & Ripley vs. Hudson & Bishop?

hicks and ripley. hahaha.

RustedAngel said:

Definitely.
Hicks not only has the power to fight off aliens in their own habitat, but can also travel back in time to fight Governor Arnold, and even further, can send Governor Arnold back in time to protect himself in the past.
I wonder if he knows that, in the past, he was Eddie Furlong.
I bet that, if he did, he wouldn't have had himself saved.

Ripley is stronger than all.
She's like Blood For Blood and Death Threat all wrapped up into one big ball of lovin'.

ripley = hottttt

She's much better looking than any of her other clones turned out to be.
Unless you're into minor deformities.

even hotter.

I bought the old triolog boxset.
there were only 4 dvds in that.

also AMC had #4 on the other night
it rocked.

Best lines in aliens
Riply:This little girl survived this long with these things
Hudson: Well why dont you put her in charge!??!!??!"

add to that list:

"Get away from her you BITCH!!" - ripley

RustedAngel said:

Isn't that what Joe/NotCommon said when he saw you banging his girl?

Beakey said:

hahahahaha!

This is what Joe/NotCommon's girl looked like after four hours of listening to Not Common Records albums.

I never knew Amex points could get me the dvd set. Thank you Wal-Mart!

I will cease to have a life once I start watching all the extra hoo-ha's on this thing.

i'm loving this boxset so far. so much good extra shit to watch.

SWEET

damn it... why did I buy the boxset for $48 2 or 3 years ago!
I could have had so much more.

I'm sure I'll be thinkin' the same thing after Aliens vs. Predator is released with all this extra stuff and more, including

1.) infinity hours of Ripley bloopers
2.) all the metal CDs you could ever want
3.) the key to the meaning of life
4.) and Osama's head on a plate

I assume that extended version of alien 1 is the director's cut that was in the theaters again last halloween right?

Also, I wonder if they'll release another boxset once Aliens vs. Predator comes out. haha.

supposively 'quadrilogy' is not a real word...thats kinda funny.


and yes, the directors cut that was in theaters last helloween is included, but it's 1 minute shorter than the original theatrical. honestly, the original cut is little bit better. for example in the directors cut:

the scene when brett looks for jones (cat) and enters the room with the chains hanging from the ceiling you see the alien hanging on the chains, and when the alien pulls him up 2 crew members run in right after and looking up. In the original after he gets pulled up it just shows the cat looking up. i think the original was more eerie.


unless sigourney is in alien vs predator i don't think they should connect it to the previous movies. hopefully it doesn't suck too bad.

actually, it would be super sick if they do a vs. p well.
not cheese but super in depth with histories of each of the cultures of each creature. Maybe this is asking too much, but all the freaking details that the aliens movies are built on top of are super super sick.

i just hope the no00b director in charge doesn't ruin everything.

Id like to see a Lez scene with Ripley and.......that spanish space marine chick in Aliens....she was hot.

Paul Anderson (Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon, Resident Evil) is doing it. I don't think sigourney is in it either. I saw some pre-production trailer or something. The plot is something about arctic archeologists who uncover an underground pyramid with aliens all over it or some shit. and then the predators come down and try to kill something to complete their predator bar mitzvahs or something.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avp/featurette/

Aliens Vs. Predator.

I hate to be a noodge, but aren't they technically BOTH aliens?

Maybe Predator is like a really old caveman time race that populated Earth initially, then they left cause they got sick of humans as our numbers grew, then they can back to fight Arnold and Danny Glover. Then technically they wouldn't be aliends, but they would be deserving a homecoming parade.

From IMDB:

1.- An expedition of archaeologists on Earth discover an Aztec temple hidden under the Antarctic circle, housing a host of Alien creatures. A group of five coming-of-age Predators have also come to the temple, as it has long been a training ground for their race. From there on, it's Aliens vs. Predators, with the humans caught in the middle.

2.- Set in the early 21st century on Earth, Charles Weyland, an industrialist billionaire, leads an archaeological expedition in Antartica. Using thermal imaging satellites, Weyland believes to have discovered the ruins of an ancient pyramid temple that predates the Egyptian and Aztec pyramids buried under the ice. Once inside, the team finds the remains of humans with holes in the rib cage and the remains of facehuggers, meaning that the possibility of the temple being uninhabited is very unlikely. To make matters worse, five teenage Predators are coming to the temple to perform a coming-of-age ritual that involves fighting to the death with the aliens. Soon, it becomes clear that only one species is getting out alive.