SUBMITTED BY Timbo

October 29, 2003 — AP takes a look at the restored director's cut of "Alien" and talks to the people who brought it to the screen, including Ridley Scott and writer Dan O'Bannon.

"Alien: The Director's Cut" digitally restores the images, enhances the audio and sound effects, trims a few shots to tighten transitions and adds about five minutes of deleted footage, mainly a creepy scene explaining the fate of vanished co-stars Tom Skerritt and Harry Dean Stanton.

That somber, melodramatic scene has been available on the DVD as deleted footage, which Scott cut because it slowed the pacing of the film's tumultuous 17-minute climax.

"I wish to God I'd never taken that out in the first place," Scott said. "I realize now you could easily afford in that 17 minutes to take a sidetrack that has a different energy. It's a different dynamic that's spooky, and it's sad."

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