Alien Resurrection

Ripley returns as a clone, 200 years after Alien 3.

Alien Resurrection is a 1997 film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and written by Joss Whedon, the fourth in the Alien series, starring Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder. Set 200 years after Alien 3, it opens with military scientists cloning Ellen Ripley and surgically removing the Alien queen from her body.

Quick Facts

Director

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Producer

Gordon Carroll
David Giler
Sigourney Weaver
Walter Hill
Bill Badalato

Writer

Joss Whedon

Based on

Characters
Dan O'Bannon
Ronald Shusett

Starring

Sigourney Weaver
Winona Ryder
Ron Perlman
Dan Hedaya
J. E. Freeman
Brad Dourif
Michael Wincott

Music

John Frizzell

Cinematography

Darius Khondji

Editing

Hervé Schneid

Facts from the source article.

Background

The United Systems Military plans to breed Aliens aboard the USM Auriga, using human hosts kidnapped and delivered by a band of mercenaries. When the creatures escape, Ripley and the mercenaries try to get away and destroy the ship before it reaches Earth. Ron Perlman, Dan Hedaya, Brad Dourif and Michael Wincott also appear.