Alien Resurrection is a science fiction film released in 1997 by 20th Century Fox and the fourth installment in the Alien franchise. Directed by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the film is based on a screenplay by Joss Whedon. With a budget of $70 million, Alien Resurrection was the first film in the Alien series to be filmed outside of England, at Fox studios in Los Angeles, California. In the film, which is set 200 years after the preceding installment Alien 3, Ellen Ripley is cloned and an Alien queen is surgically removed from her body. The United Systems Military hopes to... breed Aliens to study and research on the spaceship USM Auriga, using human hosts kidnapped and delivered to them by a group of mercenaries. The Aliens escape their enclosures, while Ripley and the mercenaries attempt to escape and destroy the Auriga before it reaches its destination, Earth. Alien Resurrection was released on November 26, 1997 and received mixed reviews from film critics.
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| Release date: | November 6, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 109 Minutes |
| Producer: | Bill Badalato, Gordon Carroll, Walter Hill, David Giler |
| Editor: | Hervé Schneid |
| Music by: | John Frizzell |
| Cinematography: | Darius Khondji |
| Screenplay by: | Joss Whedon |
| Estimated budget: | $70,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller, Science Fiction, Action |