{"id":373975,"date":"2025-12-28T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373975\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:36:17","slug":"james-cameron-done-with-alien-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373975\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron Done With &#8220;Alien&#8221; Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/how-a-cameron-lie-got-aliens-made.jpg\" data-caption=\"20th Century Studios\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/how-a-cameron-lie-got-aliens-made.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"how-a-cameron-lie-got-aliens-made\"\/><\/a>20th Century Studios<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker James Cameron recently sat down with actor Michael Biehn for a near two-hour interview on Biehn\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8vEYRARBXxk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">podcast<\/a> where a bunch of topics came up.<\/p>\n<p>The pair worked together on three of Cameron\u2019s most famous films \u2013 \u201cThe Terminator,\u201d \u201cAliens\u201d and \u201cThe Abyss\u201d.  Biehn played Corporal Hicks in \u201cAliens,\u201d with his character, along with Carrie Henn\u2019s Newt, killed off just before the start of David Fincher\u2019s \u201cAlien 3\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, the topic of \u201cAlien 3\u201d came up, and Cameron didn\u2019t hold back his thoughts on it:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that was the stupidest f\u2013king thing, so you build a lot of goodwill So, you build a lot of goodwill around the characters of you know, Hicks, Newt and Bishop, and then the first thing they do in the next film is kill them all off, right?<\/p>\n<p>Really smart guys, you know, and replace them with a bunch of f\u2013king convicts that you hate, and want to see die. Really clever. Now, I\u2019m a big fan of Fincher and his work and all that. And that was his first feature film, and he was getting vectored around by a lot of other voices and all that. So, I give him a free pass on that one\u2026 I like I like David Fitcher, by the way. He he\u2019s he\u2019s my kind of ornery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the greater franchise as a whole, the post-\u201cAliens\u201d work he holds in highest esteem appears to be the recent \u201cAlien: Earth\u201d series, which he dubs \u201cpretty good\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>With \u201cAlien: Romulus,\u201d he says he likes \u201cparts of it,\u201d highlighting the zero-G acid sequence as one he particularly liked.  With \u201cPrometheus,\u201d he said was visually great but \u201cdidn\u2019t add up logically\u201d, while \u201cAlien: Covenant\u201d is \u201cnot a film I would have made\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron says he doesn\u2019t know any details about Neil Blomkamp\u2019s scrapped film, and adds that: \u201cYou couldn\u2019t pay me enough money to go back to that franchise there. It\u2019s sort of almost become fan-driven.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20th Century Studios Filmmaker James Cameron recently sat down with actor Michael Biehn for a near two-hour interview&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[137872,88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-373975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}