Hudson

Hudson
Hudson
Location:	LV426
Planet:	0.8g Atmosphere
Command:	Private First Class
Organization:	USCM
Level:	n/a
Deep space:	marine
Stats:
Active service:	5
Gender:	male
Height:	185cms
Weight:	83kgs

Name[]

PFC William Hudson is a member of the U.S.C.M.s sent to LV426 aboard the USS Sulaco to investigate the loss of the colonists and their families. Hudson was the team's technician under command from Lieutenant Gorman of the Colonial Marines.

Hudson also appears in the Aliens: Colonial Marines campaigns which are also set on LV426 as a character available in the Aliens: Colonial Marines Collector's Edition and Aliens: Colonial Marines Limited Edition.

Characteristics[]

Reference stats table.

Appearance[]

Appearances in the following;
Aliens (film)
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Aliens (Activision)
Aliens: The Board Game
Aliens: The Board Game (Flash)
Legendary Encounters
Aliens Predator CCG
Aliens: This Time it's War

Features[]

Interactions[]

Aliens (film)
After having lost her space-flight license as a result of her "questionable judgment" and finding LV-426 is now home to a terraforming colony, Ripley is visited by Weyland-Yutani representative Carter Burke and Lieutenant Gorman of the Colonial Marines who inform her that contact has been lost with the colony on LV-426. The company decides to dispatch Burke and a unit of marines to investigate and offers to restore Ripley's flight status and pick up her contract if she will accompany them as a consultant.

On arriving at LV-426 the expedition descends to the surface by dropship where they find the colony seemingly abandoned. During a reconn two living facehuggers are found in containment tanks in the medical lab and the only colonist found is a traumatized young girl nicknamed Newt. After analysing a 2D tactical display in Operations the squad determines that the colonists are clustered in the nuclear-powered atmosphere processing station, where they find a large Alien nest filled with the cocooned colonists. The Aliens attack killing most of the unit and capturing Apone and Dietrich, Ripley is able to rescue Hicks, Vasquez, and Hudson, with Gorman being knocked unconscious during the rescue. Hicks assumes command and orders the dropship to recover the survivors, intending to return to the Sulaco and destroy the colony from orbit. A stowaway Alien kills the dropship pilots in flight, causing the vessel to crash into the processing station. The survivors then barricade themselves inside the colony complex.

Ripley discovers that it was Burke who ordered the colonists to investigate the derelict spaceship where the Nostromo's crew first encountered the Alien eggs and that he hoped to return the Alien specimens to the company's laboratories where he could profit from their use as biological weapons. Ripley threatens to expose him but Bishop soon informs the group of a greater threat, the damaged processing station has become unstable and would soon detonate with the force of a thermonuclear weapon. He volunteers to use the colony's transmitter to pilot the Sulaco's remaining dropship to the surface by remote control so that the group can escape. Ripley and Newt fall asleep in a medical laboratory, awakening to find themselves locked in the room with the two facehuggers which have been released from their tanks. Ripley is able to alert the marines, who then rescue them and kill the creatures. Ripley accuses Burke of attempting to smuggle implanted Alien embryos past Earth's quarantine inside her and Newt and of planning to kill the rest of the marines in hypersleep during the return trip so that no one could contradict his version of events.

The electricity is suddenly cut off and numerous Aliens attack through the ceiling. Hudson, Burke, Gorman, and Vasquez are killed while Newt is captured by the Aliens. Ripley and an injured Hicks reach Bishop and the second dropship but Ripley refuses to leave Newt behind. She rescues Newt from the hive in the processing station where the two encounter the Alien Queen and her egg chamber. Ripley destroys most of the eggs, enraging the Queen, who escapes by tearing free from her ovipositor. Closely pursued by the Queen, Ripley and Newt rendezvous with Bishop and Hicks on the dropship and escape moments before the colony is consumed by the nuclear blast. Back aboard the Sulaco, Ripley's and Bishop's relief at their escape is interrupted when the Alien Queen stowed away on the dropship's landing gear impales Bishop and tears him in half. Ripley battles the Queen using an exosuit cargo-loader, before expelling it into space through an airlock. Ripley, Newt, Hicks and the still-functioning Bishop then enter hypersleep for the return to Earth.

Continuity[]

Aliens (film)
Hudson's character is played by Bill Paxton.
Hudson is captured by an Alien in the command center at Hadley's Hope installation during an attack as the Aliens make it through the barricades, the remaining team escape through the air ducts following Newt.

Bill Paxton's performance earned him a Saturn Award for best supporting actor. Bill Paxton also appeared in Predator 2 (film) as Detective Jerry Lambert, an LAPD cop, transferred from another precinct into Metro Command.

Concept[]

In scripts draft, final draft and filming, Hudson is referred to as a Com-Tech.

USCM personnel service number for Hudson is A08/TQ1.0.41776E3, this was listed in scripts and later appeared in the Alien Anthology archives.

On-set[]

The actors wore modified field issue equipment with some being made from plastic and painted. Equipment used were M10 Pattern Ballistic Armour, M3 Combat Vest and M-1 ballistic helmets.

James Cameron and Doug Bush allowed the actors to develop their characters by decorating their lockers and painting their guns and armour. The armour for the film was built by English armourer Terry English, and painted using Humbrol paints. Terry English the armourer creator drew the images on to the armour from the designs drawn by the actors.

Designs were varied, for example Hudson had the words Louise written on his armor, this was a dedication to his real-life wife, Louise Newbury, Contents under pressure dispose of properly and a skull and cross bones.

Production[]

Most of the movie was filmed under a bluish light to give it a strange and alien feel. The colors of the Marines' camouflage BDUs and the Humbrol Brown Bess used on the Pulse Rifles were all chosen specifically to work with the blue set lighting.

According to Bill Paxton, he improvised some of his lines including, "Game over, man! Game over!"

Aliens: Colonial Marines
All military crew from the film Aliens left their dog tags except Ripley and Burke would didn't wear tags in the film. Dog tags from other Sephora marines also appear with there being 35 altogether.

Hudson's Pulse Rifle can be collected in the level The Raven as one of the legendary weapons.

Hudson appears in the game as a DLC character playable in both singleplayer coop and multiplayer.

Various
The character along with others also appears in various board games like Legendary Encounters, Aliens Predator CCG and Aliens: This Time it's War, either with a phrase from the film or weapons they carried.

Timeline[]

The film Aliens is set after the events of the film Alien, Ellen Ripley having killed the Alien goes into stasis aboard the Narcissus only to be found drifting in space 57 years later.

The events of the game Aliens: Colonial Marines are set between those of the films Aliens and Alien 3.

In the games LV-426 (game), Aliens (Activision), Aliens: The Board Game and Aliens: The Board Game (Flash) a player takes the role of characters from the film Aliens, set at the same time as events of the film in similiar scenarios around LV426.

References[]

Citations[]

Aliens (film)
Aliens: Colonial Marines