Aliens: How Cameron Turned Dread Into Warfare

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 09:00:00 +0000

The smartest thing James Cameron ever did was refuse to remake the film he was hired to follow. In 1979 Ridley Scott’s Alien had been a haunted-house picture in orbit, a slow, dripping horror film about a single unkillable thing stalking a crew through a dark ship. The obvious sequel was more of the same, bigger. When Cameron took the job for 1986’s Aliens, he pitched something that should not have worked: keep the creature and the survivor, throw out the genre, and make a combat film. He even wrote the title on a blackboard as Alien with an s scratched over a dollar sign, or so the studio legend goes. The gamble is the reason the two films sit side by side as equals instead of as an original and its echo.

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Aliens: How Cameron Turned Dread Into Warfare