ALIENS - Bishop

ALIENS film - Bishop - actor Lance Henriksen

"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." ―Bishop

Lance Bishop was a Hyperdyne Systems model 341-B Synthetic technician with the United States Colonial Marine Corps,
assigned to 2nd Battalion Bravo Team. He served as Executive Officer aboard the USS Sulaco, and as such was part of
the combat unit deployed to planet LV-426 in the year 2179, to investigate the sudden loss of contact with the colony
of Hadley's Hope. He was subsequently involved in combating the Alien Xenomorph infestation at the colony.

Bishop was (allegedly) designed and created by Weyland-Yutani employee Michael Weyland.
 Weyland modelled the Bishop android on his own appearance.

Trivia
- James Cameron (film director) original treatment for "Aliens" , Bishop never actually sets foot on planet LV-426 and remains
aboard the spaceship Sulaco in orbit. He also refuses to rescue the survivors at the end of the story, saying that his programming
will not allow him to risk the Xenomorphs potentially contaminating the ship and subsequently spreading throughout the
human race.

- Bishop began a tradition in the Alien franchise of giving Synthetic/Cyborg characters names that begin with subsequent
letters in the alphabet — Ash in "Alien", Bishop in "Aliens", Call in "Alien Resurrection" and David in "Prometheus",
 A-B-C-D . . . Who will be next?

- After many years struggling as an actor, Lance Henriksen had become somewhat disillusioned with the profession of acting.
When he was cast as Bishop. Today, the role of Bishop is considered to be one of the actor's finest moments in film history.
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-- ALIENS - official trailer - www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKSQmY…
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