Making a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 classic "Alien" should have been a disaster. This was a movie that defined a whole new sub-genre of outer-space horror, a perfectly structured scarefest that ...
Michael Biehn reveals James Cameron was already working on Aliens just 48 hours after wrapping The Terminator.
Forty years on, James Cameron’s transformation of Ridley Scott’s horror classic remains a masterclass in how to make a sequel.
This story has been documented in several places, including in the book "The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron" by Rebecca Keegan, but it seems that James Cameron, while shooting his first ...