A event on Thursday 29th May. The event starts at 19:00.
This event is part of Forbidden Worlds Film Festival 2025. Visit www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk to see the full line-up as well as buy Weekend/Day Passes.
Legend | Dir: James Cameron | 1986 | USA | 154 mins (film only) | Cert. 18
This year, Forbidden Worlds is honoured to be joined by this year's Legend - Gale Anne Hurd, a leading voice in the entertainment industry who has had unprecedented success as both a film and television producer.
Initially hired as an executive assistant to the legendary Roger Corman, Hurd rapidly rose through the ranks to become head of marketing at his independent film company, New World Pictures. After launching her own production company in 1982, Hurd produced her first film, the science fiction classic The Terminator, setting the stage for her meteoric rise in the entertainment industry.
However, if you thought that after making The Terminator, Hurd and director James Cameron were fighting off offers from studios to make films for them… that wasn’t the case.
In 1984, Cameron was predominately a writer-for-hire having been commissioned the year before to write the scripts for both Rambo: First Blood Part II and Aliens. However once The Terminator was released, he and Hurd pushed to produce more projects - specifically the sequel to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi game changer Alien (1979).
The production stories behind the making of Aliens are almost as legendary as the film itself. The studio not believing in Hurd’s producer experience, forcing her to rally an army of industry insiders to have her back; Cameron’s work ethic clashing with the British crews who wanted their mandated tea breaks; James Horner having to deliver his now iconic score at the 11th hour, but what came out of this charged production is one of the most beloved and terrifying action sci-fi epics of all time.
Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor of the alien attack on the mining ship Nostromo, awakens 57 years later when she is found by a salvage vessel. To her horror, Ripley learns that the moon LV-426, where her crew had encountered an alien species for the first time, has now been colonised. When all contact from the moon is lost, Ripley is called back into action as part of a colonial marine expedition to discover what has happened to the colony…
Before this special screening of the Director’s Cut of Aliens, producer Gale Anne Hurd will sit down with film journalist and author of Women Vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film, Helen O’Hara to discuss her storied career, from starting out as an executive assistant to Roger Corman at New World Pictures to producing one of the most popular TV franchises of all time - The Walking Dead.
The Q&A event will last approximately an hour with a 15 min break before the screening of the film.
Entry requirements: 18+
Legend | Dir: James Cameron | 1986 | USA | 154 mins (film only) | Cert. 18
This year, Forbidden Worlds is honoured to be joined by this year's Legend - Gale Anne Hurd, a leading voice in the entertainment industry who has had unprecedented success as both a film and television producer.
Initially hired as an executive assistant to the legendary Roger Corman, Hurd rapidly rose through the ranks to become head of marketing at his independent film company, New World Pictures. After launching her own production company in 1982, Hurd produced her first film, the science fiction classic The Terminator, setting the stage for her meteoric rise in the entertainment industry.
However, if you thought that after making The Terminator, Hurd and director James Cameron were fighting off offers from studios to make films for them… that wasn’t the case.
In 1984, Cameron was predominately a writer-for-hire having been commissioned the year before to write the scripts for both Rambo: First Blood Part II and Aliens. However once The Terminator was released, he and Hurd pushed to produce more projects - specifically the sequel to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi game changer Alien (1979).
The production stories behind the making of Aliens are almost as legendary as the film itself. The studio not believing in Hurd’s producer experience, forcing her to rally an army of industry insiders to have her back; Cameron’s work ethic clashing with the British crews who wanted their mandated tea breaks; James Horner having to deliver his now iconic score at the 11th hour, but what came out of this charged production is one of the most beloved and terrifying action sci-fi epics of all time.
Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor of the alien attack on the mining ship Nostromo, awakens 57 years later when she is found by a salvage vessel. To her horror, Ripley learns that the moon LV-426, where her crew had encountered an alien species for the first time, has now been colonised. When all contact from the moon is lost, Ripley is called back into action as part of a colonial marine expedition to discover what has happened to the colony…
Before this special screening of the Director’s Cut of Aliens, producer Gale Anne Hurd will sit down with film journalist and author of Women Vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film, Helen O’Hara to discuss her storied career, from starting out as an executive assistant to Roger Corman at New World Pictures to producing one of the most popular TV franchises of all time - The Walking Dead.
The Q&A event will last approximately an hour with a 15 min break before the screening of the film.
Entry requirements: 18+
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