The original script for alien 3 was way cooler, made more sense. Alien 3 would have been cool if they didn't kill off Hicks.
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In one early concept, Giler and Hill envisioned a story which would take place over two films. In the first, Michael Biehn would take the lead as Hicks, while Ripley would spend the entirety of the story in hypersleep and Newt would be sent back to the safety of Earth. The second film would have seen Ripley revived for another fight with her mortal enemy, the aliens.
Although Giler and Hill's specific plans for Alien 4 remain hazy, their ideas for Alien 3 were explored at length, with famed SF writer William Gibson hired to write two drafts of the script.
Gibson's version of the story sees the Sulaco picked up by an insular colony of people calling themselves The Union of Progressive Peoples. A communist group locked in a cold war with Weyland-Yutani, the UPP live on a remote station "the size of a small moon". Having boarded the Sulaco, the UPP find and capture the damaged remains of Bishop, before sending the ship on its way when they're attacked by a facehugger hidden in Bishop's hypersleep chamber.
The Sulaco is subsequently brought back to Anchorpoint, an outpost in an area of space owned by Weyland-Yutani. Hicks is awakened to learn that he's in the middle of a diplomatic crisis: the Sulaco's brief presence in UPP-controlled space being enough, it seems, to trigger the spectre of all-out war. Meanwhile, the seemingly omnipresent alien is about to introduce some complications of its own: the UPP have acquired xenomorph DNA, and recognise that it could be turned into a deadly weapon.
Weyland-Yutani, of course, are keen to harness the power of the alien themselves, and begin to fraternise with its DNA in the hope of creating a weapon of their own. Inevitably, their experiments go wrong, and Anchorpoint is quickly overwhelmed by screeching aliens.
Gibson's first draft for Alien 3 contains a number of new ideas - such as infectious gas seeping from alien eggs, and a new form of queen that also emits a gassy mutagen - but certain portions of the story read like fairly straight retreads of scenes from Alien. Towards the end of the script, Hicks leads a group of barely-trained young Colonial Marines into an alien nest, where they fight the flatulent queen mentioned above.
It's a violent, chaotic script, and probably too expensive for Fox to have committed to film in the late 1980s. Certainly, Gibson's second Alien III draft reduced the scale significantly, cutting down the number of aliens (the queen and grunt Colonial Marines are absent), and altering Anchorpoint from a bustling station to a largely deserted, semi-derelict outpost.
Ultimately, Gibson's scripts were simply added to the growing pile of drafts accumulated by Alien 3's producers between 1986 and 1992. Gibson later commented that the idea of a human head tattooed with a barcode was the only thing to make it into the Alien universe, but elements from his drafts appeared to inform subsequent films; the alien experiments were later seen in Alien Resurrection, while the infectious, mutagen gas made its way into Prometheus.
HeadGames said:
The original script for alien 3 was way cooler, made more sense. Alien 3 would have been cool if they didn't kill off Hicks.
TCTTS said:
It was a conscious choice screenwriter Damon Lindeloff made / advocated for. The original draft of Prometheus connected directly to Alien. Instead of being a different planet, it was the same planet that Alien takes place on, the ship that crashes at the end of Prometheus is the same one the crew finds in Alien, there were actual aliens, etc. And when Lindeloff came onboard he did away with all of that so it wouldn't feel like a true prequel, and would instead feel like more of a stand-alone movie, which was, in hindsight, a horrible decision.
GoAgs92 said:
As long as Ripley is back in those unexpectedly tiny underwear, I'm there.
Wanted to love Prometheus but it was a confusing mess.
I thought the prometheus movies were prequels, she'd be 18...right?AggieSouth06 said:GoAgs92 said:
As long as Ripley is back in those unexpectedly tiny underwear, I'm there.
Wanted to love Prometheus but it was a confusing mess.
You want to see 66-year-old Sigourney Weaver in a thong?
AggieSouth06 said:GoAgs92 said:
As long as Ripley is back in those unexpectedly tiny underwear, I'm there.
Wanted to love Prometheus but it was a confusing mess.
You want to see 66-year-old Sigourney Weaver in a thong?
HeadGames said:
Am I the only one who liked Prometheus? I mean, it wasn't in the same league as Alien and aliens, but I enjoyed the explanation of the engineers.
HeadGames said:
Well... this would explain why Jesus is always depicted white.... so it's not an awful idea.
Pretty sure I saw somewhere that Franco is the original Captain of the ship and the Waterston's husband and that Cudrup is the new Captain.Quote:
In the trailer Crudup is referred to as captain. I think Franco is only in the movie briefly, how else would it have been hidden for so long that he was even involved?
I can't see what there is to dislike. This was a really well done trailer (is that even what this is? Feels more like a short film) It definitely has the look of the original Alien, and I actually laughed at the choking bit with a line of dialogue that was also in the chestburster scene in the original.TCTTS said:
Just talked to a friend who HATED this trailer. Like, weirdly so. I admit that the handheld vibe is out of the ordinary for Scott, and that the choking woman bit was a little hokey, but overall I can't see what there is to get so angry about.