Aliens of the Deep is a 2005 English-language Documentary Family film directed by James Cameron and Steven Quale and produced by James Cameron and Andrew Wight under the banner of Walt Disney Pictures in collaboration with Walden Media and Earthship Productions. James Cameron journeys to some of the Earth's deepest, most extreme and unknown environments in search of the strange and alien creatures that live there. Joining him is a team of young NASA scientists and marine biologists who consider how these life forms represent life we may one day find in outer space not only on distant planets orbiting distant stars, but also within our own solar system. Aliens of the Deep is the result of expeditions to several hydrothermal vent sites in the Atlantic and the Pacific. These are violent volcanic regions where new planet is literally being born and where the interaction between ocean and molten rock creates plumes of super-heated, chemically-charged water that serve as oases for animals unlike anything ever discovered. Six-foot tall worms with blood-red plumes and no stomach, blind white crabs, and a biomass of shrimp capable of ing heat all compete to find just the right location in the flow of the super-heated, life-giving water or to fry trying. Not dependent on sunlight (like all other life on earth), these ecosystems are as close to alien as anything ever imagined and provide one possible blueprint for the life that might exist beyond our world. Written by Anonymous. Aliens of the deep stars Anatoly Sagalevich in the title role along with an ensemble cast including Genya Chernaiev, Victor Nischeta, Pamela G. Conrad, Jim Childress, Dijanna Figueroa and Anatoly M. Sagalevitch. The music was composed by Jeehun Hwang. Cinematography was done by James Cameron, Vince Pace and Ron Allum and editing by Matthew Kregor and Fiona Wight. The motion picture has a running time of 100 minutes. It was released on 25th August 2005. The motion picture made a box office gross of $12 million. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by Buena Vista Pictures.