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{{Infobox movie
| name           = Alien: Resurrection
| writer         = '''Characters:'''<br />[[Dan O'Bannon]]<br />Ronald Shusett<br />'''Screenplay:'''<br />[[Joss Whedon]]
| starring       = [[Sigourney Weaver]]<br />[[Winona Ryder]]<br />[[Dominique Pinon]]<br />[[Ron Perlman]]<br />[[Gary Dourdan]]<br />[[Michael Wincott]]<br />[[Brad Dourif]]<br />[[Leland Orser]]<br />[[Dan Hedaya]]<br />[[J.E. Freeman]]<br />[[Kim Flowers]]<br />[[Raymond Cruz]]
| director       = [[Jean-Pierre Jeunet]]
| producer       = Bill Badalato<br />Gordon Carroll<br />David Giler<br />[[Walter Hill]]
| distributor    = [[20th Century Fox]]
| released       = November 26, 1997
| runtime        = 109&nbsp;[[minute]]s
| country        = [[United Kingdom]]
| language       = English
| budget         = [[United States dollar|$]]70,000,000
| gross          = $47,795,658 (domestic)<br />$113,500,000 (international)<ref name="gross">{{Cite web |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alienresurrection.htm |title=Alien: Resurrection at BoxOfficeMojo.com |access-date=2007-09-22 |archive-date=2010-01-17 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5mr05WzFh?url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alienresurrection.htm |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref><ref name="imdbbusiness">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118583/business Alien: Resurrection (1997) - Box office / business]</ref>
| music          = [[John Frizzell]]
| cinematography = [[Darius Khondji]]
}}
'''''Alien: Resurrection''''' is a 1997 [[United Kingdom|British]] [[science fiction movie|science fiction]]-[[horror movie|horror]]-[[thriller movie]]. It was [[Screenwriter|written]] by [[Joss Whedon]] and directed by [[Jean-Pierre Jeunet]]. It opened on November 26, 1997. The movie is the fourth in the ''[[Alien (movie series)|Alien]]'' series of movies. The [[music]] was [[composer|composed]] by [[John Frizzell]]. It stars [[Sigourney Weaver]] as Ellen Ripley.
== Plot ==
The events of ''Alien: Resurrection'' take place two [[century|centuries]] after the events of ''[[Alien³]]''. Ellen Ripley has been [[cloning|cloned]] on the [[outer space]] [[military]] [[science]] [[spacecraft|vessel]] ''Auriga''. This is done so they can get the [[extraterrestrial life|alien]] queen [[embryo]] that was inside her. After taking out the queen embryo, the [[scientist]]s decide to keep the Ripley clone alive for further study. They raise the alien queen to [[adult]] size and collect its [[Egg (biology)|eggs]] for further use. Because of the cloning process, Ripley has several new [[ability|abilities]] including enhanced [[strength]], [[acid]]ic [[blood]], and a link with the aliens.

The ''Betty'', a ship full of [[soldier|mercenaries]], comes to the ''Auriga''. It is bringing several kidnapped humans to be used in [[experiment]]s. The mercenaries meet Ripley. Their youngest member Call ([[Winona Ryder]]) recognizes her name and tries to kill Ripley. Call thinks Ripley may be used to create more aliens. Call is too late. The adult aliens have already been created and quickly escape their [[prison|confinement]]. Dr. Wren, one of the ship's scientists, tells them that, in an [[emergency]], the ''Auriga'' will automatically return to [[Earth]]. Knowing that this will free the aliens on Earth, Ripley, the mercenaries, Wren, a surviving marine named DiStephano, and a surviving alien host, Purvis, set out to escape on the ''Betty'' and then destroy the ''Auriga''.

As the group makes their way through the damaged ship, several of them are killed by the aliens. The group finds out that Call is an [[robot|android]]. Using her abilities to control the damaged ship's systems, they set it to crash into the Earth. They hope that the aliens will be destroyed when the ship crashes. The alien queen from inside Ripley has also gain a new ability. She can give [[birth]] to live [[offspring]] now. The offspring, which appears more [[human]]oid, sees Ripley as its "mother" and kills the alien queen. Ripley escapes soon after and heads for the ''Betty''.

Ripley and the surviving mercenaries arrive at the ''Betty''. As they launch, the human/alien offspring [[attack|attacks]] Ripley and Call. Ripley kills it by using her own acidic blood to burn a hole through part of the ship. This causes the creature to be pulled through the small hole and into the [[vacuum]] of space. The survivors escape in the ''Betty'' as the ''Auriga'' crashes through the [[atmosphere]] and down towards Earth.
== Reception ==
Despite positive reviews for [[Sigourney Weaver]]'s and [[Winona Ryder]]'s performances, the movie is the least successful in the series and was not well liked by the [[film critic|critics]].<ref name="MetaCritic">{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/alienresurrection?q=Alien|title=Overview of ''Alien: Resurrection'' reviews|access-date=2007-02-04|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5mr05XFqR?url=http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/alienresurrection?q=Alien|archive-date=2010-01-17|url-status=live}}</ref> The movie cost $70 million to make, but it earned only $47.8 million in the US. It did earn a total of $161.3 million worldwide.<ref name="gross"/><ref name="imdbbusiness"/> However, Winona Ryder won the [[Blockbuster Entertainment Award]] for her role in the movie.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118583/awards Alien: Resurrection (1997) - Awards]</ref>

[[Screenwriter]] [[Joss Whedon]] was extremely unhappy with the final version of movie. In a 2005 interview, when asked how the movie was different from the [[screenplay|script]] he had written, Whedon said, "It wasn't a question of doing everything differently, although they changed the ending; it was mostly a matter of doing everything wrong. They said the lines... mostly... but they said them all wrong. And they cast it wrong. And they designed it wrong. And they scored it wrong. They did everything wrong that they could possibly do. There's actually a fascinating lesson in filmmaking, because everything that they did reflects back to the script or looks like something from the script, and people assume that, if I hated it, then they’d changed the script... but it wasn’t so much that they’d changed the script; it’s that they just executed it in such a ghastly fashion as to render it almost unwatchable."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bullz-eye.com/mguide/interviews/2005/joss_whedon.htm|title=Joss Whedon on ''Alien Resurrection''|publisher=Bullz-eye.com|access-date=2006-12-15|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5mr05XUOe?url=http://www.bullz-eye.com/mguide/interviews/2005/joss_whedon.htm|archive-date=2010-01-17|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Alien: Resurrection Media ==
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== References ==
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== Other websites ==
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