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Practical effects, production conflicts and the extended cut
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- British crew tea-break conflicts
- A lightweight Newt dummy for carrying scenes
- Carrie Henn repeating slide takes
- Fourteen puppeteers operating the alien queen
- Heavy prop weapons
- Henriksen’s reported illness from Bishop’s milky effects mixture
- Reuse of the alien-nest set for Batman
- Editing out the colony sequence
- Weaver’s objections to cutting Ripley’s daughter backstory
- Franchise timeline complications
- Alien: Isolation’s Amanda Ripley premise