History Trivia / AlienResurrection

* MoneyDearBoy: After declaring she wouldn't do another ''Franchise/Alien'' film, Creator/SigourneyWeaver agreed to do this film, in her own words, "They basically drove a dumptruck full of money to my house".

** As Ripley and Gediman are having lunch, Wren would tell her that Weyland-Yutani was bought out by Wall-Mart years ago.

** When Ripley is being shown various pictures - glove, fruit etc. - one of them is of a young girl who resembles Newt. Ripley would be visibly troubled by this.

** Creator/SigourneyWeaver was reluctant to do a fourth movie, after the rather final ending of the third. However when she read the script, the scene where Ripley sees the seven failed attempts at cloning her was enough to make her sign on. But she also gave other reasons:

** Cretor/WinonaRyder has said that she took the role in this before even reading the script, because she had always wanted to be in an ''Alien'' movie and could brag about it to her brothers. She joked that she'd still do it even if she was killed off in the first scene. She also jumped at the chance to appear alongside her idol Creator/SigourneyWeaver.

** Sigourney Weaver made a point of not looking the Newborn in the eye whenever she had a scene with it. This was something she had learned from ''Film/GorillasInTheMist'' - to never look a potentially dangerous animal in the eye.
** Ron Perlman previously had someone say "who were you expecting? Santa Claus?" at him in ''Film/TheCityOfLostChildren'', by the same director as well.

* FatalMethodActing: Creator/RonPerlman nearly drowned during shooting as he hit his head filming in the aquatic escape. Winona Ryder also had an anxiety attack while filming the underwater scene.

** Creator/JossWhedon wrote Christie with Creator/Chow Yun-Fat in mind. Yun-Fat's manager and producer Terence Chang turned down the role for him.

** WinonaRyder has said that she took the role in this before even reading the script, because she had always wanted to be in an ''Alien'' movie and could brag about it to her brothers. She joked that she'd still do it even if she was killed off in the first scene. She also jumped at the chance to appear alongside her idol Sigourney Weaver.
** Sigourney Weaver was reluctant to do a fourth movie, after the rather final ending of the third. However when she read the script, the scene where Ripley sees the seven failed attempts at cloning her was enough to make her sign on. But she also gave other reasons:

** Should Sigourney Weaver not come back as Ripley, the other idea for the film would be to have a clone of Newt as the protagonist instead.

** The role of Call was written for Angelina Jolie but she turned it down.
** Concept art of the Newborn showed it resembling Sigourney Weaver's face. This was abandoned, as the film ''{{Film/Species}}'' used a similar idea.

** Joss Whedon's original script had another member on the Betty crew - an Asian assassin called St. Just.

** Dr Wren was written to be played by Bill Murray, in the hopes of reuniting him with Sigourney Weaver since ''{{Film/Ghostbusters}}''.

* HeyItsThatGuy: This film features [[Film/{{Hellboy}} Hell]][[Creator/RonPerlman boy]], [[Series/{{CSI}} Warrick Brown]], [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} Lydia Deetz]], and [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Grí­ma Wormtongue]]. [[Series/BreakingBad Tuco]] was fighting aliens, no wonder he's so AxCrazy.

** WinonaRyder has said that she took the role in this before even reading the script, because she had always wanted to be in an ''Alien'' movie and could brag about it to her brothers. She joked that she'd still do it even if she was killed off in the first scene.

** Slightly more lines in the meeting between Perez and Elgyn.

** Before diving underwater, Christie and [=DiStephano=] start geeking out about weapons.

* FatalMethodActing: Creator/RonPerlman nearly drowned during shooting as he hit his head filming in the aquatic escape.

* HeyItsThatGuy: This film features [[Film/{{Hellboy}} Hell]][[Creator/RonPerlman boy]], [[Series/{{CSI}} Warrick Brown]], [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} Lydia Deetz]], and [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Grí­ma Wormtongue]].
** [[Series/BreakingBad Tuco]] was fighting aliens, no wonder he's so AxCrazy.

** The role of Call was written for Angelina Jolie but she turned it down.

* AwesomeDearBoy: WinonaRyder has said that she took the role in this before even reading the script, because she had always wanted to be in an ''Alien'' movie and could brag about it to her brothers.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Note that, Joss's complaints to the contrary, the ''script'' to the fourth movie is substantially the same as the one he handed over (except for the ending, as he wanted the conclusion to be set on Earth but Fox instead pushed for the one still on the ''Auriga''). It's the ''rest'' of the project that got screwed up.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The climax would have actually taken place on Earth, and instead of the Newborn there was a massive white-colored Alien. Joss Whedon wrote five drafts, but Fox didn't want them so they wrote the eventual third act without his input.

* EnforcedMethodActing: WinonaRyder nearly drowned when she was a child, and the first scene they shot was the underwater through the canteen scene. Winona Rider had never been in water since her accident. The looks of anxiety before she goes in, and the utter terror on her face when they can't get out the other end? Yeah, those weren't faked. She had an anxiety attack on her first day of filming.

** [[BreakingBad Tuco]] was fighting aliens, no wonder he's so AxCrazy.

* FatalMethodActing: Creator/RonPerlman nearly died during shooting.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Note that, Joss's complaints to the contrary, the ''script'' to the fourth movie is substantially the same as the one he handed over. It's the ''rest'' of the project that got screwed up.

* ThrowItIn: Creator/SigourneyWeaver actually made that behind-the-back-without-looking basketball shot for real (and in one take, no less), and the shock and surprise the other actors show is genuine. Ron Perlman notably looked directly into the camera and said "Oh my God!"; they cut the audio for the final movie.

* ThrowItIn: Creator/SigourneyWeaver actually made that behind-the-back-without-looking basketball shot for real (and in one take, no less), and the shock and surprise the other actors show is genuine. Ron Perlman notably looked directly into the camera and said "Oh my God!"; they cut the audio for the final movie.

* ThrowItIn: Creator/SigourneyWeaver actually made that behind-the-back-without-looking basketball shot for real, and the shock and surprise the other actors show is genuine. Ron Perlman notably looked directly into the camera and said "Oh my God!"; they cut the audio for the final movie.

* FatalMethodActing: RonPerlman nearly died during shooting.

* HeyItsThatGuy: This film features [[Film/{{Hellboy}} Hell]][[RonPerlman boy]], [[Series/{{CSI}} Warrick Brown]], [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} Lydia Deetz]], and [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Grí­ma Wormtongue]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Series/Firefly'', as pointed out by Michael Marano in the essay ''River Tam and the Weaponized Women of the Whedonverse''. That work and ''Resurrection'' share many character archetypes and plot elements (notably the "Weaponized Woman", in the form of Clone!Ripley and River Tam.) It's evident that Joss Whedon had his work on this film in the back of his mind while he was working on ''Firefly''.

* HeyItsThatGuy: This film features [[Film/{{Hellboy}} Hell]][[RonPerlman boy]], [[Series/{{CSI}} Warrick Brown]], [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} Lydia Deetz]], and [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Grima Wormtongue]].

* EnforcedMethodActing:
** WinonaRyder nearly drowned when she was a child, and the first scene they shot was the underwater through the canteen scene. Winona Rider had never been in water since her accident. The looks of anxiety before she goes in, and the utter terror on her face when they can't get out the other end? Yeah, those weren't faked. She had an anxiety attack on her first day of filming.

* FatalMethodActing: Ron Perlman nearly died during shooting.

** Winona Rider nearly drowned when she was a child, and the first scene they shot was the underwater through the canteen scene. Winona Rider had never been in water since her accident. The looks of anxiety before she goes in, and the utter terror on her face when they can't get out the other end? Yeah, those weren't faked. She had an anxiety attack on her first day of filming.

* ThrowItIn: Sigourney Weaver actually made that behind-the-back-without-looking basketball shot for real, and the shock and surprise the other actors show is genuine. Ron Perlman notably looked directly into the camera and said "Oh my God!"; they cut the audio for the final movie.

** Sigourney Weaver actually made that behind-the-back-without-looking basketball shot for real, and the shock and surprise the other actors show is genuine. Ron Perlman notably looked directly into the camera and said "Oh my God!"; they cut the audio for the final movie.

* HeyItsThatGuy: This film features [[Film/{{Hellboy}} Hell]][[RonPerlman boy]], [[Series/{{CSI}} Warrick Brown]], [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} Lydia Deetz]], and [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Grima Wormtongue]].