Alien 3 went through many alternate screenplays before reaching the big screen, including the infamous "Wooden Planet" draft. The enormous success of Aliens in 1986 meant a third film was inevitable, but despite being a guaranteed hit, the sequel went through a troubled development. No less than ten writers worked on different versions of Alien 3 throughout this cycle, with the final version being Frankenstein's Monster cobbled together from the many differing takes that were developed. The final version of Alien 3 stranded Ripley on a grim prison planet with a particularly vicious Xenomorph that scored the franchise's biggest bodycount.
Alien 3 was David Fincher's feature film debut, but it was such an awful experience he has since disowned the sequel. Audiences who were expecting the visceral thrills of Aliens were stunned by the film's unrelentingly bleak tone also, in addition to the controversial call to kill Hicks and Newt.
Alien 3 was David Fincher's feature film debut, but it was such an awful experience he has since disowned the sequel. Audiences who were expecting the visceral thrills of Aliens were stunned by the film's unrelentingly bleak tone also, in addition to the controversial call to kill Hicks and Newt.
- 4/30/2023
- by Padraig Cotter
- ScreenRant
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