Aliens: The Official Movie Novelization Alan Dean Foster
Publisher: Titan

Star Wars, he majority of characters speak English (or the viewers' language, translated). Still have a few of them packed away. I miss the days when there would be such "Official Collector's Edition" tie-ins, as well as movie programs sold in the theaters. I took me a few years to finally see the film, which was around 1982 (I think) when it aired on television in the UK. After I picked up this magazine at a gas station in Selma, Ala. In the novelization of the first film Optimus tries to speak Mandarin Chinese to Sam and Mikaela when they meet, which the teens hypothesize that he's trying the language with the highest number of speakers on Earth. May 8, 2014 - The latest book I'm reading is Aliens: The Official Movie Novelization by Alan Dean Foster. May 18, 2014 - This week Geek Native is giving you a chance to one of three copies of Alien: The Official Movie Novelization. The photonovel, "The Book of Alien" and Alan Dean Foster's novel held me over until I saw the film, though. This is usually referred to as 'Galactic Basic', a common galactic language. Oct 22, 2010 - The Aliens Speaking English trope as used in popular culture, with a list of examples from all media.