©2004

STARRING FLORA WHITFIELD

WRITTEN BY SEBASTIAN O'BRIEN

DIRECTED BY DAMON WELLNER

CAST & CREW

The Making of

by Damon Wellner

ALIEN 5² took 14 months to produce (mostly on weekends) with a budget of about $1500, 10 times the size of the budget for Probot's first movie, Alien 5. This time we used every trick we've learned in six years making toy movies and produced our most action packed and cinematic action-figure-adventure yet.

ALIEN 5² was written by Sebastian O'Brien based on a story idea he and i wrote together. Probot newcomer Flora Whitfield stars as the voice of Ripley. Sebastian reprises his role as the voice of Bishop and several other characters. Our biggest supporting cast ever includes many Probot All-Stars and a few new voices too.

We decided to make a sequel to ALIEN 5 in April 2003, because i had a new 3CCD digital camera [SONY TRV-900] and digital editing software [ADOBE PREMIERE 6.0]. We knew we could make a much better Alien movie than we made in 1998 with just a vhs camcorder and a 4-track audio recorder. Plus, the Hasbro and Mcfarlane figures are so cool that they deserved a better movie.

As always, most of our effects were done in-camera and as cheaply as possible. However we did enhance several sequences digitally using various methods i'll get into later...