Gearbox CEO: ‘Invoking the legacy’ for Aliens: Colonial Marines

In an early deleted scene from James Cameron’s genre-defining film, Aliens, Private Hudson (Bill Paxton) assures Lieutenant Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) that he “and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you!” Unaware that he’ll spend most of the movie as a blubbery, terrified mess, Hudson even tells her how. “We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs — we got sonic-electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks!”