Empire Magazine Celebrates 40 Years of Aliens in Issue Hitting Shelves Today
Officer Ripley Last updated on July 25th, 2026 at 07:06 am
Get away from her, you BITCH!
Forty years ago, James Cameron took Ridley Scott’s haunted house in space and turned it into an adrenaline-fueled, Oscar-winning war zone. Today, the legendary Empire Magazine drops a massive anniversary issue celebrating four decades of ALIENS!
Here is what you will find inside this ultimate collector’s edition:
- Exclusive interviews with the surviving Colonial Marines.
- Never-before-seen BTS photos straight from the Pinewood Studios set.
- Deep-dive breakdowns of the iconic Queen Alien design.
- Rare commentary from James Cameron on his high-stakes pitch.
Whether you are a die-hard fan of Ripley’s power loader fight or just love pure, relentless cinematic tension, this issue is mandatory reading.
Hitting shelves TODAY! Do not wait until the synthetic milk spoils—grab your copy at local newsstands or order online before they are completely wiped out. Game over, man. Game over!
With Aliens’ big 40th anniversary looming above us in July, Empire Magazine is leading the celebratory fun with a huge 14-page spread with interviews that reunite James Cameron, Michael Biehn, Sigourney Weaver and Jenette Goldstein, as well an interview with John Richardson, the special effects supervisor on Aliens! This past week Empire have been releasing snippets from the interviews in the anniversary edition, teasing the impending release today! The production of Aliens was notoriously difficult for the crew, with clashes of both culture and personality. In one preview of the interview released by Empire, Sigourney recounted to Cameron her response to the writer/director after the production.
We were having dinner one night with Gale and I suddenly said: “You know, you’re really funny. Where was this guy all the way through that shoot?!” she says. “I just don’t think you could [be like that], because you had all of that proving yourself to the crew”. They thought: “Who is this guy? He’s not Ridley Scott!’ It was such bullshit.” It couldn’t be clearer now that Cameron was the only person who could make Aliens. “It’s so hard to make a movie like this, and then to have to deal with all of that for weeks,” says Weaver. “They finally opened their eyes and went, ‘Oh fuck, we’re working with a master and this is going to be a great movie.’”
Empire also released a snippet discussing the last time everyone had seen the film which you can read here. You can find the 40 Years of Aliens issue of Empire magazine on store shelves today, or you can order a copy online. Let us know about any interesting comments or stories in the comments section below!
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