![]() ![]() 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. In one early concept, Giler and Hill envisioned a story which would take place over two films. Two Sequels, and a Screenplay by William Gibson Unfortunately for Fox, Scott was already embroiled in a number of projects in the late ’80s – he’d just completed the thriller Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), and was preparing to film Black Rain (1989) and road-trip drama Thelma And Louise (1991). If the concept sounds a bit like Alienmeets Blade Runner, this might be because the concept surfaced around the time Ridley Scott was being courted to return as director. Alien meets Blade RunnerĪnother idea, seemingly explored in the very earliest stages of Alien 3‘s production in the 1980s, was of Ripley and Newt ending up in a futuristic metropolis – albeit one on another planet, not Earth – where they hunted an “especially mobile creature” around the city sprawl. This time, however, the aliens would fuse into what the publication described as “a giant, multi-talented monster that destroys New York City.”Įxactly what “multi-talented” means isn’t clear (could the giant alien tap-dance?), but the idea, which sounds more like a Godzilla-like kaiju movie than an Aliensequel, was thankfully dropped. Aliens head to EarthĪccording to a 1992 issue of Cinescapemagazine, one of the earliest ideas for Alien 3 indeed saw the Earth visited by a swarm of dreaded Starbeasts. For now, here are some of the unused Alien 3 ideas that we currently know about. To date, they remain as mere concepts or discarded scripts, and it’s likely that many more remain tucked away in a cupboard somewhere, still to see the light of day. But before Alien 3 came out, a welter of sequel ideas were flung around offices and writers’ rooms – some inspired, some ridiculous. Of course, we all know what happened in the end: Alien 3 finally emerged in cinemas in 1992, the directorial debut of David Fincher, and a film that he’s still reluctant to discuss in public to this day. But commerce required that Alien 3 be made, and with gritted teeth, Giler and Hill began hunting around for ideas. Sigourney Weaver, whose presence in the franchise was almost as pivotal as the title monster, wasn’t enthusiastic about doing a third film, either. “David and I were a bit sick of it,” Hill later added. “We weren’t that enthused,” Giler said in 2003. How do you follow up two classic movies with something equally fresh and successful, from a creative standpoint? It didn’t help that just about everyone – from Fox executives down to fans who’d flocked to Aliens– wanted to see a sequel more than Giler and Hill did. Though the September event is most certainly a joke, it comes just a few weeks after a group of US senators was briefed about reported encounters between the US Navy and an unidentified aircraft – literally an unidentified flying object.In fact, Aliens and Ridley Scott’s original Alien left Alien 3‘s producers in a situation akin to performance anxiety. The area was officially acknowledged as a military site in 2013, but the theories live on. The mysterious Area 51 has been the focus of conspiracy theories for decades, and many people think it’s where the US government stores its secrets about aliens and UFOs. “We can move faster than their bullets,” the event page, which is clearly written with tongue in cheek, promises those who RSVP for September 20. The event, titled “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” is inviting users from around the world to join a “Naruto run” – a Japanese manga-inspired running style featuring arms outstretched backwards and heads forward – into the area. Over 300,000 people have signed on to a Facebook event pledging to raid Area 51 in Nevada in a quest to “see them aliens.” Stretch those quads and prep that tinfoil hat!
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