David Giler
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Giler is an American filmmaker who has been active in the motion picture industry since the early 1960s.
He started his career as a writer, providing scripts for television programs such as Kraft Suspense Theatre and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. He then moved to screenplays in the 70's, helping to write films such as The Parallax View and the original version of Fun With Dick and Jane. He produced his first film in 1970, the critically reviled Myra Breckinridge, an adaptation of Gore Vidal's controversial novel (he also co-wrote the film with director Michael Sarne). He helped Walter Hill produce the legendary horror thriller Alien in 1979, and it is for this film that he is probably best remembered. He and Hill became embroiled in a much-publicized behind-the-scenes fight with Alien's original writer, Dan O'Bannon, over who was to receive screenplay credit. Giler and Hill claim that they completely rewrote the script from top to bottom, and therefore they wanted to relegate O'Bannon to a "story by" credit only. O'Bannon claims that they did little more than change the names of the characters and dialogue, and felt that the two were trying to bully him out of the more prestigious screenplay credit. As evidenced by the interviews on the supplemental DVD features, the two parties were extremely antagonistic when it comes to this topic (O'Bannon has since died), though O'Bannon was the only one to receive credit for the screenplay in the final film. The various drafts can be found online, allowing audiences to decide for themselves.
Giler worked with Hill on several more projects, including the continuation of the Alien franchise. The two were responsible for the final and very controversial rewrite of the Alien 3 story which killed off the Bishop, Hicks and Newt characters from Aliens. Some of the films that he wrote during this period include The Money Pit, Southern Comfort, and an uncredited rewrite for Beverly Hills Cop II.
He has also directed one film, The Black Bird (1975).
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滅びゆく地球から脱出し、人類移住計画を託された宇宙船コヴェナント号には、カップルで構成された乗組員が搭乗していた。やがて人類の新たな楽園となるであろう未知の惑星にたどり着いたコヴェナント号だったが、そこには想像を絶する脅威が存在していた。その恐怖を目の当たりにした乗組員たちは、命からがら星からの脱出を試みる。
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Aboard a hijacked Engineer vessel, Dr. Shaw repairs David as they make their way to the home-world of the Engineers, whom Shaw believes are humanity’s creators. 'The Crossing' is an official prologue short to 'Alien: Covenant', revealing what happened to crew members Dr. Elizabeth Shaw and the synthetic David after the events of 'Prometheus'.
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科学者エリザベスが、地球上の時代も場所も異なる複数の古代遺跡から共通のサインを発見した。それを知的生命体からのと分析した彼女は、巨大企業ウェイランド社が出資した宇宙船プロメテウス号で地球を旅立つ。2年以上の航海を経て未知の惑星にたどり着いたエリザベスは、冷徹な女性監督官ヴィッカーズ、精巧なアンドロイドのデヴィッドらとともに砂漠の大地にそびえ立つ遺跡のような建造物の調査を開始する。やがて遺跡の奥に足を踏み入れたエリザベスは、地球上の科学の常識では計り知れない驚愕の真実を目の当たりにするのだった……。
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南極に存在したピラミッドでの死闘の末、宇宙船の中でプレデターの体内からチェストバスターが誕生するという衝撃のラストシーンで前作は終わった……。しかし、それはこれから地球で起こる惨劇の序章でしかなかった！ プレデターから飛び出たチェストバスター＝ニュー・エイリアンは、宇宙船の中で“プレデリアン”へと成長し、プレデターを次々と殺戮していく。コントロール不能となった宇宙船はコロラドの森へ墜落し、“プレデリアン”をはじめ、宇宙船に潜んでいた無数のエイリアンたちが獲物を求めて飛び出していった。一方、宇宙船の異変に気づいた、エイリアンを駆逐することを生業とするニュー・プレデター＜ザ・クリーナー＞が地球へと乗りこんでくる。そして遂に始まった、人類の眼前で次々と繰り広げられる壮絶かつ凄惨な戦い……。史上最も恐ろしい２大モンスターの激突の行方は？ そして人類を巻き込んだ戦いの果てに待ちうける、驚愕の結末とは？ 人類が最も恐れていた悪夢が現実となる……。果たして地球に明日はあるのか？
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億万長者の実業家ウェイランド（ランス・ヘンリクセン）は、考古学者、科学者、セキュリティのエキスパートからなる国際チームを招集し、環境問題専門家で女性冒険家のレックス（サナ・レイサン）にガイドを頼み、南極の地下深くから放出されている謎の“熱源”の調査を敢行する。そして、600mの地底で目撃したものに、彼らは興奮し、次に恐れを抱く。彼らが発見したのは、アステカ、エジプト、カンボジアの各文明が交じりあった巨大なピラミッドだった。ピラミッドの内部に様々な部屋を見つけ、その進んだ技術が数千年前から地球外文明の影響を受けてきたことが明らかになる。 そのとき突如、部屋の壁が動いて閉じこめられただけでなく、その動く壁の迷路によってチームのメンバーは分断されてしまう。部屋から部屋へと移動しているうち、象形文字からついに恐ろしい真実が明かされる。プレデター種族は、100年周期で生きたまま凍らせたクイーン・エイリアンに卵を産ませ、若いプレデターの戦士は、生まれたエイリアンと対決する試練を受ける。この信じがたい成長の儀式――エイリアン対プレデターの戦いの真っ直中に、レックスたちは足を踏みこんでしまったのだ、生け贄として……。
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A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's hunting them one by one.
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This feature-length documentary, made especially for the 2003 Aliens (1986) DVD release, is incredibly informative with all its interviews with both the cast and crew, as well as behind the scenes footage filmed during the making of the film. Every possible element towards what went into making the movie is included here and gives fans an overload of information to fill their brains with.
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The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaustive detail. Many interviews with the cast and crew give us an idea of how hard of a time David Fincher had creating his first feature film, as well as present us with much information about every element that went into making this film, including how the plot and script changed drastically through filming.
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The making of Alien Resurrection (1997) is covered in this feature-length documentary, created for the film's 2003 DVD release. The cast and crew tell us how this movie came to be, from it's script which never changed through production, to its initial theatrical release.
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An American doctor encounters members of a voodoo cult when she is summoned to Jamaica to treat a wealthy man's brother.
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Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. WHen these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.
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Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. WHen these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.
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前作の舞台、フューリー宇宙刑務所においてリプリーは、エイリアン・クイーンを体内に宿したまま溶鉱炉に身を投じ、永きに渡るエイリアンとの戦いに幕を下ろした。しかしそれから200年後、リプリーは軍の実験宇宙船「オーリガ」で、フューリーに残されていた血液から科学者らの手によりクローンとして再生される。その目的は、リプリーの体内に残されたエイリアン・クイーンの摘出であり、エイリアンを繁殖させて軍事兵器として利用することであった。
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Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current.
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Greed, murder, sex - all appear to thrive at the Wilson Emery Institute for Research and Development, aka W.E.I.R.D., where brilliant, young, but emotionally unstable scientific geniuses are recruited to develop cutting-edge projects in such fields as virology, time-travel, rejuvenation and robotics.
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Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. On the run from wicked mercenaries for almost 90 years, Brayker finally stops in at a boarding house in New Mexico where — with the help of its residents — he plans to face off against the Collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from ever seizing the key.
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Johnny is a bad guy whom is trying to go straight whom becomes smitten with Laura, a wealthy good girl whom is rebelling against her parents by pretending to go steady with him, all set among the backdrop of 1950s Los Angeles.
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Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by other "lifer" inmates who help her out when Aggie finds herself marked for murder by an unknown source who thinks she knows more about the murder than she does.
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Cynical look at a 1950s rebellious Rocker who has to confront his future, thugs with knives, and the crooked town sheriff.
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惑星LV-426のエイリアン殲滅後、生き残った者達は冷凍睡眠につき、宇宙船スラコ号で地球に向かっていたが謎の事故を起こす。スラコ号から切り離された脱出艇はフィオリーナ161（通称フューリー）で回収されたが、ヒックスやニュートは着陸の際に死亡、ビショップも機能を停止していた。この漂着先は流刑の星で凶悪な囚人達が戒律の元で自活的な生活をおくり、放射性廃棄物を収める鉛のコンテナを作る作業をしていた。唯一の女性であるリプリーの出現で惑星の秩序は一時乱れるが囚人頭であるディロンが事態を収拾する。そんな時、脱出艇に潜んでいたエイリアンが活動を始める。
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惑星LV-426のエイリアン殲滅後、生き残った者達は冷凍睡眠につき、宇宙船スラコ号で地球に向かっていたが謎の事故を起こす。スラコ号から切り離された脱出艇はフィオリーナ161（通称フューリー）で回収されたが、ヒックスやニュートは着陸の際に死亡、ビショップも機能を停止していた。この漂着先は流刑の星で凶悪な囚人達が戒律の元で自活的な生活をおくり、放射性廃棄物を収める鉛のコンテナを作る作業をしていた。唯一の女性であるリプリーの出現で惑星の秩序は一時乱れるが囚人頭であるディロンが事態を収拾する。そんな時、脱出艇に潜んでいたエイリアンが活動を始める。
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The foul-mouthed, wheelchair-bound Mr. Rush introduces three adventure tales inspired by the EC Comics of the 1950s: "Showdown," "King of the Road," and "Yellow." This star-studded telefilm was an attempt to launch a second anthology series in the mold of "Tales from the Crypt." When the film failed to generate sufficient interest, the three tales were re-edited and shown as "Crypt" episodes.
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冷凍睡眠のまま宇宙を漂流していたリプリーは奇跡的に宇宙船に救出される。地球に戻った彼女は貨物船で起こったエイリアンによる恐ろしい出来事を語る。リプリーが漂流していた間にエイリアンを発見した小惑星は地球の殖民惑星となっていた事を知りエイリアン殲滅を訴える。しかしエイリアンを兵器として利用したい企業に拒まれてしまう。その時小惑星より連絡が途絶えたことからアメリカ海兵隊が住民救出に向かうが同乗したリプリーの話をまともに聞かなかった兵士達だが、凶悪生命体エイリアンを目の当たりにし一気に追い詰められてゆく。
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冷凍睡眠のまま宇宙を漂流していたリプリーは奇跡的に宇宙船に救出される。地球に戻った彼女は貨物船で起こったエイリアンによる恐ろしい出来事を語る。リプリーが漂流していた間にエイリアンを発見した小惑星は地球の殖民惑星となっていた事を知りエイリアン殲滅を訴える。しかしエイリアンを兵器として利用したい企業に拒まれてしまう。その時小惑星より連絡が途絶えたことからアメリカ海兵隊が住民救出に向かうが同乗したリプリーの話をまともに聞かなかった兵士達だが、凶悪生命体エイリアンを目の当たりにし一気に追い詰められてゆく。
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After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.
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After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.
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A singing cowboy roams the Wild West with his sidekick, dancing horse and fancy wardrobe.
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A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
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A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
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巨大な宇宙貨物船に侵入した一匹の異星生物の恐怖。地球への帰途についていた宇宙貨物船ノストロモ号は、謎の救難信号を受けて未知の惑星に降り立つ。そこには異星人の船があり、船内には無数の奇怪な卵が存在していた。卵から飛び出した奇妙な生物が顔に貼り付いた航宙士ケインを回収し、ノストロモ号は再び航海につくが、彼の体内にはすでに異星生物の幼体が産みつけられていたのだ。ケインの腹を突き破り姿を現したエイリアンは脱皮を繰り返し巨大に成長、一人また一人と乗組員を血祭りにあげていく……。
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When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
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The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
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The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
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An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
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Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.
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Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.
