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Salary; acid blood; lasers; slap; cast tactics; creature effects; spacesuits; cats; deleted footage; casting discovery
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- The production reportedly built planetary terrain in a warehouse and sourced bomber scrap for the designs.
- Unusual organic materials and children beside oversized landing gear reportedly enhanced the design and perceived scale.
- Weaver's Alien Resurrection salary reportedly exceeded the entire budget of Alien.
- The egg chamber's blue lasers reportedly came from the Who rehearsing nearby at Shepperton; the panel discusses the timing around Keith Moon's death.
- For the director's-cut slap, Cartwright reportedly switched hands at Scott's instruction after Weaver kept ducking, producing a visibly surprising hit.
- Scott reportedly instructed Kotto to annoy Weaver off camera; the panel questions this directing tactic and jokes about method acting.
- A German shepherd hidden behind a screen reportedly frightened the cat for its reaction to the descending alien.
- Ash's artificial head reportedly contained milk, caviar, pasta and glass marbles.
- Hurt's head and arms projected through the table into a mechanical torso filled with animal guts; the smell and effect reportedly distressed the cast, including Kotto.
- Actors reportedly fainted in inadequately ventilated spacesuits; Scott reconsidered the problem when his own children fainted during shots using them for scale.
- The dead facehugger reportedly used oysters, sheep kidney and fresh shellfish.
- Four different cats reportedly played Jones.
- The director's cut reportedly followed discovery of one hundred boxes of footage in a London vault in the early 2000s.
- Walter Hill reportedly noticed Weaver and Michael Beck in a film transcribed as Mad Men, leading to Weaver's Alien opportunity and Beck's Warriors casting; the title remains uncertain in this ASR.