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Info & Help Wanted: Combining Alien theatrical and 2003 director's cuts

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Aside from the cocoon scene in the director’s cut, I understand there are many other little bits of the film in the director’s cut not present in the theatrical cut. What extra footage needs to be taken from the director’s cut to add it into an extended version of the theatrical cut? I don’t want to use extra footage from documentaries and such due to the lower quality.

If anyone has already attempted this, your help would be greatly appreciated.

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I know two of the biggest additions include an extra scene towards the beginning where the entire crew listens to the signal they’re receiving from the planet and a longer ending to Brett’s death

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I found a site which has a nice breakdown of the additional scenes/material in the director’s not present in the theatrical cut.

  • Listening to the strange signal
  • Kane’s gun
  • Lambert lashes out at Ripley
  • Alien watches Brett (additional shots used instead of Brett before his death)
  • Blood rain
  • Ripley and Lambert exchange looks
  • Cocooned
  • Alien knocks Jones

Shame Scott removed the Cocooned scene from the latest release.