In what year does the movie 'Alien' take place?

The Sci-Fi film Alien(1979) starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley takes place around 2122. However, there is a line by Carter Burke at one point in the film that places the setting in 2179.

The character Ripley is said to have been born in 2092 in Olympia, Luna. A very early version of the script had Ripley as a male character. In the scene where Sigourney Weaver awakens from a hypersleep, she had to wear surgical tape over her nipples so that the scene would not be offensive in other countries.

Updated on Monday, March 12 2012 at 01:39AM EDT
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