‘Aliens’ 30th Anniversary Reunion At Comic-Con
By Jack Giroux/July 6, 2016 3:00 pm EST
Below, learn more about the Aliens 30th anniversary celebration.
Entertainment Weekly first reported on the event. Their own Anthony Breznican is set to host the panel, which will also feature Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Michael Biehn, and Paul Reiser. The Q&A will take place on Saturday, July 23rd in Hall H.
While speaking with EW, Cameron, who typically doesn’t participate in these sort of events, said Aliens is a personal milestone he doesn’t mind looking back on in front of 6,500 people or so at Comic Con:
Cameron added Aliens was his and Gale’s “graduation”:
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.
All of a sudden, we were playing in the big league. So looking at it retrospectively, you know, [Gale] and I both feel that was more of our graduation, or breakthrough, than Terminator — even though Terminator’s the film that put us on the map.
If anything could convince fans to go for the double dip, maybe it’s the packaging, which includes art cards with Cameron’s concept sketches and a book featuring art from Dark Horse’s Aliens comic book series. Here’s the set:
The 30th-anniversary edition of Aliens hits DVD and Blu-ray September 13th. The release includes both the theatrical cut and the (sometimes redundant) extended cut. If you’re attending San Diego Comic-Con, you can also pre-order your Blu-ray at Fox’s booth. The first 250 people to order the set will receive a lithograph image of Ripley fighting the Alien Queen.
