Sigourney Weaver stars in ALIENS, the sequel to the 1979 blockbuster Alien, reprising her role as Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of the spaceship Nostromo’s encounter with a deadly extraterrestrial. This time she returns to the very planet where her nightmare originally began with a squad of heavily armed marines, in a search-and-rescue mission for some missing space colonists. James Cameron, creator of the 1984 sleeper hit The Terminator, directs his own screenplay from a story by Cameron and David Giler & Walter Hill, based on the characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett. Gale Anne Hurd is the producer, and the executive producers are Gordon Carroll, Davie Giler and Walter Hill.