Release Date: November 26, 1997 Ellen Ripley sacrificed her life to destroy the Company's desires to use the alien as a weapon. 200 years and seven horrible experiments later, she is resurrected on the USM Auriga using blood samples from Fiorina 161, for the purpose of extracting the alien … Trailer 10 for Alien 3. It is a sequel to James Cameron's Aliens, itself a sequel to Ridley Scott's Alien, the original film. Alien 3 once again changes up the formula, but is inferior in every way. Ripley continues to be stalked by a savage alien, after her escape pod crashes on a prison planet. Fair sequel to the two terrific predecessors, in which Lt. Helen Ripley faces her old nemesis once more, this time in a maximum-security prison colony. Watch the movie trailer for Alien³ (1992). Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events It is the third installment in the Alien franchise and the debut of director David Fincher. Directed by David Fincher and starring Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dutton, Charles Dance and Paul McGann. The trailer for David Fincher’s Alien 3, the third installment of the Alien franchise after Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986), misled viewers by suggesting that the film would take place on Earth. Alien 3 (1992) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Alien³ is a 1992 science fiction horror film.