Rebirth. Prepare yourself." Furthermore, this movie's trailer debuted in front of prints for Die Hard (1988). The blue drug used by the Newcomers is very similar to PCP (Angel Dust), and is clearly shown to have the same aggressive side effects, as seen when a Newcomer ingests the drug in a dark tunnel and charges after Sykes (James Caan).
The decision to call his character "George" in the movie was kept as an in-joke to the George Jetson character name. Specials. Green Eyes.

03. Use the HTML below. I don't have too many...I mean, I loved Mandy Patinkin.

Brian Thompson (Trent Porter) is the only actor to appear in both this film and the television adaptation Alien Nation (1989). Fox Network (1990) (USA) (TV) See also.

But...I don't know. ALIEN NATION : This was one of many US tv spin-offs from an averagely successful movie. The Touch.
Taken jobs, and tried to fit in. Kenneth Johnson Productions; 20th Century Fox Television; Distributors. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The series offered insightful social commentary by illustrating what it means to be human and the often bizarre rituals we observe. Curt Sobel replaced Jerry Goldsmith as the film's Composer.

Many movie posters featured a long blurb that read: "Los Angeles, 1991. Prior to its theatrical release, "Alien Nation" was heavily re-edited to be shorter and faster paced. Set five years after the Newcomers first arrived, and one month after the movie, it concerned a human cop, Sikes, and his growing relationships with the aliens, whilst solving crime in downtown Los Angeles. The picture and its subsequent series also spun off five television movies during the 1990s: Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994), Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995), Alien Nation: Millennium (1996), Alien Nation: The Enemy Within (1996) and Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997).

Goldsmith's rejected score was released in Spring 2005 as a Varese Sarabande CD Club Release limited to three thousand copies. Full Cast and Crew | Release Dates | Official Sites | Filming & Production | Technical Specs. Episode Ep. If you look at the clothes that this Newcomer wears, you can see that it's the same Newcomer who was beaten and killed by Harcourt's men on the beach, Todd Watson. Following a life-after-death experience, Sikes is convinced that a Tenctonese criminal has the ability to bring the dead back to life. As fictional immigrants, Newcomers could "stand in" for hot-button social commentary about African-Americans and Mexican-Americans (as well as sexual minorities like gays) and invert the usual expectations.

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? After Harcourt's transformation, he is no longer played by Terence Stamp, who refused to wear the more elaborate make-up. 22. The October 1987 draft of the screenplay credits a re-write to James Cameron, but Cameron is not credited in the final film. It was supposed to be released in summer, but due to the drastic re-editing it was pushed back to October. The title was changed to avoid confusion with that summer's Red Heat (1988). They've learned the language. Dark Horizon.

Note that the prejudice is placed in the context of Sykes and Tugg being best friends, despite the fact that men like Sykes had the same derisive attitude towards men like Tugg. One of two science fiction films released in 1988 that featured alien characters assimilated into modern-day society on Earth. Later, when Strader's dead body is found on the beach, he has two bullet holes in his chest, but as seen in the earlier scene, Newcomer "Strader", who is actually Watson, was killed by sea water, and he also wears different clothes. 20. Caan continued, "Yeah, well, I don't know. At one point, "Rambo 6" can be seen on the marquee of a movie theater. Tugg does not follow this procedure. Alien Nation is a science fiction television series, loosely based on the movie of the same name. Jump to: Production Companies (2) | Distributors (1) Production Companies. Slag is the stony waste left over from the smelting of metal ore. Slag has no use or value and is simply thrown away. The weekly series ran for just one season, from 1989 through 1990, when a financial crunch at the fledgling Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox Network caused Fox executives to cancel all dramatic series. And we had this English director [Graham Baker] who I wasn't really that fond of.