There’s an ALIENS Reunion Panel Planned for Comic-Con!
For the 30th anniversary of James Cameron’s Aliens there’s a reunion panel planned for San Diego Comic-Con. It’s hard for me to believe that it’s been 30 years. Aliens was the first rated R film that I saw in theaters, and it was AMAZING! You can read all about my experience here.
The Aliens reunion panel is is to take place on Saturday, July 23rd in Hall H, and it will include a Q&A with director James Cameron, producer Gale Anne Hurd, and actors Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Michael Biehn, and Carrie Henn, who played Newt in the film. While talking to EW about the event, Cameron said:
“That should be fun. Get the usual suspects back together. You know, it’s interesting. I don’t normally pursue these kind of nostalgia moments like we’re going to do down at Comic-Con, and I didn’t do it much at all for Terminator on its 30th, but there’s something about Aliens. It was a milestone for myself and Gale because the film got seven Academy Award nominations.”
There’s no doubt that it’s going to be an incredibly fun event, and I will most definitely be attending! This is one of those things that you will not want to miss if you’re going to be at the Con.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is also going to release a new Aliens 30th anniversary Blu-ray and Digital HD edition on September 13th, which will feature a new interview with Cameron on the design and inspiration of the film. That’s going to be a must own for any fan! You’ll be able to pre-order it at Fox’s Comic-Con booth, and the first 250 people will get a lithograph image of “Ripley locked in mortal combat with the Alien Queen.”
EW also offers us some details on the anniversary release, saying that it will “include both the original theatrical cut and the special edition, which features more about the past and child Ripley left behind — and lost forever. It will also come with a commentary track, and previously released deleted and extended scenes.” It will also include some collectible art cards that feature some concept sketches by Cameron and a book featuring art from the Dark Horse Comics Aliens series.