Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor when she crash lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison. Once again, Ripley must face skepticism and the alien as it hunts down the prisoners and guards.
It was filmed mostly at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, though the surface of the alien planet was Blast Beach, Seaham, alongside Dawdon Colliery on the Durham coast. Blackened with years of detritus from the Seaham Harbour Blast Furnace, the area was recently cleaned up in an extensive restoration programme.
Acheron, formerly designated as LV-426 is one of three known moons orbiting the planet Calpamos, located in the Zeta II Reticuli system, 39 light-years from Earth.
Though the Nostromo was damaged while landing on LV-426, a three-man exploration team -- consisting of Captain Dallas, First Officer Kane and navigator Lambert -- set out on a brief exploration of the moon's surface and discovered a derelict spacecraft that was the source of the signal.
LV-426, or commonly known as Acheron, is a moon orbiting the ringed planet Calpamos in the binary star system Zeta Reticuli, 37 light years from Sol. It is notable for being home to a colony of Xenomorphs, one of the most dangerous parasite lifeforms in the universe.
Prometheus (2012 movie): Was the alien planet the same planet (LV426) featured in Alien? No it does not appear to be the same planet. Aside from having different names LV-223 in Prometheus and LV-426 in Alien their atmospheric compositions are quite different.
Originally there was supposed to be a xenomorph home world that was unbelievably hostile to all kinds of life. Then later the story became that they were bio-engineered and thus have no home world.
The story itself takes place in the year 2104, 11 years after the Prometheus expedition went missing. The colonization ship Covenant is en route to the planet Origae-6, but a mysterious transmission of a human voice makes the crew look for answers in a nearby planet with Earth-like characteristics.
Prometheus acts as a shepherding moon, constraining the extent of the inner edge of Saturn's F Ring. Prometheus is extremely irregular and has visible craters — some up to 12.4 miles (20 kilometers) in diameter. However, it is much less cratered than its nearby neighbors Pandora, Janus and Epimetheus.
In both Alien and the sequel film, Aliens, Xenomorphs were only ever shown on Acheron, and only ventured away from the planet when a Xenomorph or two hitched a ride on a human spaceship–but that only happened twice (Alien and Alien 3) and resulted in the nearly immediate deaths of those Xenomorphs.
Alien is set in the year 2122, which means this Alien prequel series is set in the early 2090s, much closer to Prometheus and Alien: Covenant in the franchise timeline. FX's show is the first project in the Alien franchise to take place on Earth.
In the novelization of Alien: Covenant (which was based on the script) it says the engineers created the Xenomorph. In the Covenant DVD commentary, director Ridley Scott says David created the Xenos.
The film faced problems during production, including shooting without a script and the attachment of various screenwriters and directors. Fincher, in his feature directorial debut, was brought in to direct after a proposed version with Ward as director was canceled during pre-production.
As stated previously, Newt was given an ignominious death at the beginning of the third installment in the "Alien" franchise; despite safely making it off LV-426 with Ripley and Corporal Hicks, she is drowned when their escape pod lands in the water on the planet Fiorina 161, leaving Ripley as the only survivor.
Ripley soon learns that during her cryostasis aboard the escape pod, she was attacked by a Face Hugger, and impregnated with a Xenomorph embryo. A scan using the escape pod's barely functioning medical apparatus reveals this baby is none other than an Alien Queen.
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“Why is Jupiter angry at Prometheus?” Jupiter is angry because Prometheus gives fire to humans. Jupiter wants to keep humans poor and ignorant because he is fearful that if they get fire, they will take over control from the gods.
In Greek mythology, Prometheus is one of the Titans, the supreme trickster, and a god of fire. In common belief, he developed into a master craftsman, and in this connection, he was associated with fire and the creation of mortals. His intellectual side was emphasized by the apparent meaning of his name, Forethinker.
Ripley is in stasis for 57 years between Alien and Aliens, taking the franchise to the year 2179, which is also when Alien 3 takes place. The last film chronologically, Alien Resurrection, takes place in 2318, roughly 200 years after Alien 3 when Ripley is brought back as a clone.
Planet 4 was the fourth of five planets orbiting an ancient star in a system located in Sector 87. It had two moons of its own, each smaller than Earth's. The atmosphere consisted of 19.5% oxygen, 79.4% nitrogen, and was 15.4 PSI in barometric pressure.
the queen mother is the strongest. mainly because she is the biggest and she has direct control over any alien she can think of. she lives in the world hive which you could guess is our world as an alien hive. The Queen Mother is the most powerful of all Plagiarus praepotens, bar none.
Special Hunts are also used as a form of initiation ritual for Young Blood Yautja, representing a kind of a trial-by-combat that marks a young Yautja's passage from adolescence into adulthood. These initiation Hunts typically involve Xenomorph prey and may take place inside a Yautja pyramid or other sacred temple.
Alien blood is an extremely potent acid and is capable of corroding almost any substance on contact with alarming speed. It is dull yellow in color and appears to be pressurized inside the body so that it spurts out with great force when the creature is wounded.
