Fox clearly never understood the franchise. The best thing they could have done was adapt the Dark Horse comic that was a direct sequel to Aliens.

@donovanbradford8231

24 күн бұрын

The creators of Alien vs Predator Extinction on the PS2 very mich brought that point up that Fox didn't understand let alone really care about them.

@theredranger9723

24 күн бұрын

Absolutely! Ever watched Alien Theory channel? Does a dang good job. May not sound like a ringing endorsement but I love falling asleep to them lol

@theredranger9723

24 күн бұрын

To be clear, does a good job on Alien audio comics…

The original teaser for 3 hinted that the Xeno would be coming to earth.

@DBCooper01

24 күн бұрын

"on earth everyone can hear you scream" great tagline for a movie we never got

@idiot_city5244

24 күн бұрын

H seems to have forgotten that lol

The William Gibson Alien 3 script, graphic and Audiodrama are excellent. Hicks and Bishop actually voice act in the audio.

@Xenomorphine

24 күн бұрын

It was horridly superficial, IMO. Turned the series from 'Alien' to 'Resident Evil', with random characters turning into Aliens. It felt very cartoonish.

@NoNamenoonehere

23 күн бұрын

It was exactly what fans actually wanted ,not to mention that ending was pretty much a setup for adaptation alien earth war if alien 4 had followed that storyline

A lot of the early Alien 3 stuff has been around for sometime. Eric Red took the farm idea Renny mentions and placed it on a ship, which s where the alien-animal hybrid idea started. The best pitch was Clive Barker's: If it's Alien 3 or "cubed", what happens when something eats the being that contains the Alien gestation

Someone eventually made this film: “A Quiet Place #1.”

What?! I never knew this. I STILL have the "Alien Earth War" comics (Darkhorse Comics) that I picked up in the late 80's which was awesome! That story was crazy cool. BTW dude you and I are on the same page as far as being diehard Alien fans. You would LOVE the Alien Earth War comics if you haven't read them yet. I remember seeing Alien 3 in the theatre and was like what the hell is this? It grew on me over the years but definitely was a bad move after the masterpiece that was Aliens.

@randallpetroelje3913

24 күн бұрын

I was hoping to that they would do the alien earth, wars series from dark horse comics. Ventures alien was halfway decent, but I was expecting the earth wars.🥲

@itzybitzyspyder

22 күн бұрын

I also have those.

Alien 3 was my introduction to the franchise so I don't hate it. I have fond memories watching my recorded VHS with adverts included

@bartsullivan4866

24 күн бұрын

I have watched it many times I just hate how they rushed the intro to the film it was so shoddy and poorly done the rest of the movie isn't bad but nowhere near as compelling as the first 2 films.

William Gibsons rejected screenplay set on a space station is what I really wanted for Alien 3

@bartsullivan4866

24 күн бұрын

Much better idea

I really want to like Alien 3 more than I do. A film inspired by the Earth Wars comics would have been great.

Face huggers latching onto farm animals. Imagine the variety of Xenomorphs that would be birthed. We could have gotten Bull Alien, or Horse Alien. Pig Alien? Chicken? Lol

@federalbureauofinvestigati3564

24 күн бұрын

Horse alien, pig alien, chicken alien sounds ridiculous when saying it but just imagine how cool and awesome it would be to see a four legged xenomorph the size of a horse galloping and jumping to kill people would be. I think the best example of what an alien movie on earth would look like would be the movie Signs (but imagine with xenomorphs)

@donovanbradford8231

24 күн бұрын

Batman vs Alien we got a face hugger on a crocodile and the xenomorph was the size of a dinosaur, truly a sight to behold.

@bartsullivan4866

24 күн бұрын

never thought about that but your totally correct if they made it back to earth even birds flying Aliens

@orbitingdecay6797

15 күн бұрын

Like the 90s,toys. Bull alien, scorpion alien etc

They also planned Ripley landing on a wooden planet inhabited by space monks. I thought that would be interesting.

I would have loved to see Vincent Ward’s Wooden Space Ship Alien 3 film.

@jasonharrison5765

24 күн бұрын

That was a budgetary nightmare but an amazing aesthetic and idea

Raptors in the tall grass...

@JurassicRod

24 күн бұрын

Don't go into da long grass!

I think one of the factors that contributed to what happened to Newt was the fact that Carrie Henn had aged between films so they couldn't exactly keep continuity with Aliens since people aren't supposed to age in hypersleep.

@PAUL-MH

24 күн бұрын

The franchise just ran it's course after aliens. They couldn't come up with a great script involving carrie henn as newt. They could have changed the actress with somebody else to play her in the third movie. But i think at that point fox didn't know what to do with alien 3. So it just ended up being an average conclusion to the first two films with ripley being killed off!

@BReal23-qm8hs

24 күн бұрын

@@PAUL-MH Alien should not have involved Sigourney Weaver. They should have gone with a new story with a new lead since Weaver herself said she did not want to star in another film.

@filmbuff2777

24 күн бұрын

@@BReal23-qm8hs Agreed. Alien 3 should have gone in a new direction.

@Buckeyefarmer

24 күн бұрын

There were things they could've done, but I think they just lacked the imagination to come up with them. They needed to allow them to come back to gateway station and figure out a setup from there instead of sticking alien eggs on the sulaco with zero explanation of how they got there. The derelict ship very well could've been out of range of the blast radius so you just have a story where the company goes back to retrieve samples then later on all hell breaks loose at gateway station. Perfect setting for the 3rd film.

@peterkrochmalni673

24 күн бұрын

So, recasting doesn’t exist in Hollywood or something? That’s the lamest excuse of all.

The best thing about Fincher’s Alien 3 was the camera work. It was dreary and aimed super low after Cameron’s and Scott’s takes.

@ImmortalRimas

24 күн бұрын

Yeah definitely and I get the feeling it was the only thing the studio would allow him to do

@Dr.Disregard

24 күн бұрын

That's bad if that's the best thing about the movie. If it's not the story, you have a garbage movie

@mabusestestament

24 күн бұрын

I don’t think it aimed super low, imo Alien3 had a great vision and is a great ending to the trilogy 🍻

@jackmullin8962

23 күн бұрын

Still a good film, shame fincher didn't have full control could of been epic without studio interference

@JohnDavidSullivan

23 күн бұрын

@@Dr.Disregard funnily enough part of an appeal to a certain film is how it is shot and lit. Who da thunk it?

The director cut of 3 is better movie than the theatrical realise .

@shadowbeast2276

24 күн бұрын

I agree. But I like some of the scenes that were cut. The only thing I didn't like about it was then using an ox, but I digress

@PAUL-MH

24 күн бұрын

I love the directors cut!

@kevd690kd

24 күн бұрын

@@shadowbeast2276 I had a rottweiler so the ox was better for me 🤣

@shadowbeast2276

24 күн бұрын

@@kevd690kd ahh. I can understand that 💯%👍 Hope it was a sweet thing. They have such a bad reputation

@DBCooper01

24 күн бұрын

Alien 3 is a movie I hated when I was young but now I see as the perfect end to Ripley's story.

If you want a good replacement for Alien 3, check out the Aliens comic by Dark Horse by Mark Verheiden and Mark A. Nelson. It was a direct continuation of Aliens, following the story of Hicks and Newt. After Alien3 was made, the comic was adapted to the novel Earth Hive, and the names changed from Hicks and Newt to Wilkes and Billie. Reprints of the comic have since changed the names to Wilkes and Billie, but know that origianlly it was a DIRECT sequel to the films.

@mikeadams7904

24 күн бұрын

Yup it was good too

@austinwillcut4919

23 күн бұрын

They've changed the names back to Newt and Hicks in more recent printings of those comics.

Sigourney Weaver _refused_ to do Alien3 until WB promised her a script that had no guns in it. She signed onto Aliens without reading it, and wouldn't have signed on had she known there were any guns (Weaver is _demented_ in her anti-gun beliefs). _She's_ the primary reason the Alien movies failed - big time. She of course compromised her beliefs for Alien Resurrection - once the check had enough zeroes.

@mikeadams7904

24 күн бұрын

Yeah but she was also brilliant in them. They were gonna go for hicks as the lead and her in a coma but she kept changing her mind about coming back

@TheSkepticalPanda

24 күн бұрын

I remember seeing a BTS for Aliens with James Cameron explaining why guns were in the movie to her, : "You're not playing Signourney Weaver, you're playing Ripley. And Ripley wants to live."

@Xenomorphine

24 күн бұрын

Wouldn't say that's the reason for failure. Bad writing has been. No reason a gun-free 'Alien' film can't happen which is still written amazingly well.

@Dr.Disregard

24 күн бұрын

That's lame. Hollywood sucks

@ErikDeMann

24 күн бұрын

@@Xenomorphine Bad writing very often falls back on having to rewrite already existing concepts, because they bring in other writers, often more than one, that doesn't have a clue when it comes to what was intended with the original idea, while each of them are pulling it in their own direction..

I don’t mind Alien 3 and the Assembly Cut makes it that much better, i grew up with all the films so i have a soft spot for Alien 3, Resurrection though i can't stand, it's a parody of the series and i only watch it if i want a guilty pleasure experience.

Absolutely love Alien 3. The birth of the Dragon is such a haunting scene. The eulogy, music and the birth of the xeno all mixed together, it's just incredible (the one with the dog).

Hicks & Newt are still alive and living happily in a bungalow in Coventry 😑

It's OK in some parts and I liked the fact that they went with a singular Xenomorph but hate the dog hybrid thing. But Aliens should be in space and not Earth to keep more Sci-Fi.

I liked Alien 3 but didn’t love it, I liked some of the ideas such as the setting in a prison but I think a Prison on board a Space Station would have been cooler & why not still have more than one Xenomorph imagine a Xenomorph Prison riot and I can also see there was too many cooks in the kitchen on what was suppose to be David Fincher’s Alien 3. I would have loved that pay-off teased in Alien & Aliens of Weyland-Yutani getting their hands on a Xenomorph Queen Specimen & see how they would try to weaponise it maybe even using the prisoners on board a Space Station Prison as illegal test subjects for all kinds of dark experiments etc

@orbitingdecay6797

15 күн бұрын

That's alien resurrection 😂

We kind of got the corn (wheat) field thing in Covenant.

I thought this was well known - there was an early teaser trailer for Alien 3 with a slow egg reveal and a voiceover saying "this time on Earth, everyone can hear you scream"

The Alien 3 assembly cut is a vast improvement over the theatrical release. Unfortunately, the tech needed didn't exist.

The "Director's Cut" re-edit for the Blu-ray release was brilliant, IMO. I highly recommend giving it a chance.

Give us Aliens: Earth Wars

🎶Shut up and Charles Dance with me!🎶

The original teaser makes it seems like they were going to earth

I don't think a cornfield would have worked... we already had Critters which is essentially the same premise. Would have been more interesting for a urban city outbreak. Especially if you actually linked it with Bladerunner universe or something akin to it.

I appreciate Alien 3 for trying to take the series back to its horror roots. It had an impossible challenge in trying to live upto Aliens. The world, atmosphere, cinematography and score were fantastic! I also think that the Alien design was the best in the series. The rod puppet special effects range from great (for the time) to abysmal. I remember when I first watched the workprint cut, I couldn't believe how much it improved the film overall.... I can only hope that one day Fincher puts together a cut closer to his vision (if possible) with some updated special effects! Highly unlikely but one can dream!

I actually love how Alien 3 turned out for the most part (including the deleted scenes form the extended cut). I thought it was a great ending to the Ripley story.

@peterkrochmalni673

24 күн бұрын

I do not agree.

the assembly cut is watchable

@earthcitizen3939

24 күн бұрын

The best in the franchise

I think a good idea for Alien 3 would have been a battle on Gateway to stop the Aliens getting to Earth. It would have rounded out the trilogy quite well because the whole conflict has been between the company trying to capture an alien for profit, and Ripley and the soldiers trying to destroy them. A battle on Gateway would have seen all 3 sides, the Aliens, the Company, and then Ripley, along with a small resistance, trying to stop them.

That Alien 3 would have basically been Aliens in Bladerunner, which sounds awesome to me.

I really appreciate the version that we got because I know the crap the director(s) went through to make it. There are some issues with it, however I think the majority can be attributed to studio interference.

I remember Paul WS Anderson talking in the AvP dvd extras about the teaser for Alien 3 saying 'On Earth, Everyone Can Hear Your Scream' and his disappointment with the finished film. I know AvP isnt great but at least it wasnt missold 😅

I think the play for "Alien on earth" was not Aliens running through a cornfield, but Aliens in a Blade Runner type mega city. The look and feel of that would match the Alien universe aesthetic.

I thought William Gibson’s part 3 screenplay was the great missed opportunity for the franchise.

I like all of the original alien film series. There were a lot of good character actors in #3 which carried it .

Audible has an audio drama that uses the original script for Alien 3. If you want to hear what it would have been like you can do it there.

Alien in a cornfield? I'm glad that never happened.

So this is a different version than the original William Gibson script that got adapted into a comic book a couple years ago

i love the assembly cut of Alien3. It is bleak, it is dirty and gives the Riplay story a fitting end. The Xeno always wins in the end

The first draught was set in a monk colony on a mechanical wooden moon. Sounds nuts, but I would LOVE to have seen that.

Great video. I grew to see Alien movies 1 - 4 as 1 Horror from Sci-Fi, 2 Horror from Sci-Fi and Action, 3 Horror from Sci-Fi and Drama, and lastly 4 Horror from Sci-Fi and Comedy.

I would have loved to see William Gibson's version. I don't like the idea of Alien on Earth, cornfield or not.

Just so you all know, KZread is pushing your archive videos more than your main channel.

Alien3, for me, represented everything that could go wrong from concept, to script, and then production in the movie business. There were so many conflicting rumours swirling around at the time, first one director, then another director, yet another script writer, and so on and so on. Fincher became a cheap option for something that had spiralled out of control long before he was brought onboard to direct. At the time he made the best film he could given the applied budgetary restraints, but the damage had already been done and the studio wanted a film released as per contract in as quicker time as possible. Is it any wonder it has so many mixed opinions from the fans of the franchise?

Having aliens on a futuristic farm would have been awesome. The cool future farm tech and a largescale farming operation would have made for amazing set pieces and action scenes.

Mrh, there is a chap making his own cut of alien 3, using the assembly cut and theatrical release. He has also been painstakingly remastering the dodgy effects and lightings. He’s funded this himself. If you do some digging online you can find the webpage. Personally I love alien 3. So under appreciated. Dark, nihilistic. Proper sci-fi horror.

I've had torn feelings about Alien 3 over the years. The egg on the Sulaco is what bothers me the most now. The Hicks/Newt stuff angered me as a kid, but it doesn't bother me as much as the plothole with the egg on the Sulaco. Its also just so contrived to have Ripley being not only the sole survivor again, but conveniently is infected with a Queen embryo. However, Ridley Scott's lazy Covenant gave me new appreciation for Alien 3.

Having the Aliens on earth is a terrible idea. In a cornfield?

I just want to say that I like those Mobile Suits Gundam's on your shelf!! (Pretty sure one is a GP-01/fb)

Obviously Hicks and Newt being killed off sucked but i love Alien 3 nowadays. The extra scenes added were overall pretty good but i thought the Ox addition was a downfall, even though i understand why they offered an alternate alien birth.

I saw Alien 3 in theaters when I was nearly 13 years old. I grew up on Aliens. I thought Alien was ok but slow and old feeling. As an 80’s kid I felt the same way about Rocky and Rocky 4, and A New Hope and Return of the Jedi. Aliens was tense, scary and a good action thriller. So watching Alien 3, and seeing how the happy ending of sorts of Aliens from my youth was undone in such painful and bleak circumstances with them killing off Hicks and Newt, it was just sad. The whole damn movie was sad. Cause you knew Ripley was gonna die too. F** off movie ( said in Scottish accent )

Signs more than effectively used‘aliens in the cornfield’ trope.

Once I saw the alternate version of Alien 3 it made a lot more sense. The alien comes out of an ox not a dog so the special effects scene of the alien getting up off the floor looked normal once it came out of an ox not a dog. They spliced the same scene in with the dog version and the alien appeared to be just as big as the dog when it had just burst out, so that was some choppy garbage the studio did. All the extra footage of the outside of the colony on the surface of the planet was great as well in the alternate and the biggest thing was keeping the part where they actually capture the alien and Golic sets it loose. In the original version I remember in the movie theater when they got to the scene where they were implementing the plan to capture the alien, it was the first part of the film where things were starting to get really exciting and the studio just butchered it and cut out them actually capturing the alien and instead chopped it up so it all blew up in their face. That actually sucked the life right out of the film when it was just starting to get good so yeah, really fckd up the feel and pacing of it, but the final parts of the film with the tunnels, high speed chases, and lead works are all really badazz imo. I think there's a master cut between the original and the alternate if I could make it myself because not everything they added into the alternate was needed, but def the Ripley washing up on shore, the oxen, and the alien capture and Golic subplot all needed to be in there. If you view Alien 3 as a stand alone piece of sci-fi horror it's actually a really good film, it's just that they way they cheat and put an alien on the Sulaco, kill Hicks & Newt off is just really bad decision making as far as I'm concerned. My story would've required no aliens on the Sulaco. I really don't like that after the fact cheating to work a monster into a sequel.

The version by William Gibson, involving Lance Henriksen (Bishop), Michael Biehn (Hicks) and Rebecca Jorden (Newt) is the best one that could have been filmed as it followed the story previously established in Aliens 2.

The story of aliens on Earth could go only 2 ways 1. Realistic - fool scale war and humanity lose at the end. 2. Unrealistic (corn field) - Aliens for some reason would be present only in one location. Guess what would they have chosen.

@jataviouswilliamson976

23 күн бұрын

i pick Number 1 idea over Number 2 idea because number 2 is a bad idea

In the words of Micheal Beihn "FUUUUCK ALIEN 3"

Every Alien movie needs corridors. There are no corridors on the cornfield

@alwayz_bet_black9160

24 күн бұрын

Tunnels? Um um eh yeah?

Alien 3 was average big step back from one & two the whole alien puppetry effect threw me off as well

There are so many parts of the DC of Alien 3 I found so entertaining and strong. But my heart struggles to acknowledge that it exists in the same strong canon as the first two. We developed such an emotional connection to Hicks, Newt and Bishop to have them sidelined so callously.

It still has one of the most beautiful speaches commited to film. "WHY............"?! Spine tingling.

Xenomorphs in a cornfield gives off Signs vibes

Alien 3 is a good example of a movie sequel that had writers at a creative standstill

Alien 3 had something that prequels didn't have, character.

@Xenomorphine

24 күн бұрын

The compelling characters all get killed off early, save for Dillon. And his demise is... Weird.

@oldsoulnc310

23 күн бұрын

David didn’t have character?

@Xenomorphine

23 күн бұрын

@@oldsoulnc310 His actor always put in a good performance with virutally every production, but there was very little character in the script for him to work with.

Considering the difficulties surrounding its production, I think it came out very well. Alien 3 was the first Alien film I ever watched, I was only 9 years old at the time, and my Dad let me stay up late and watch it with him, haha. So, it holds a special, nostalgic place in my heart. Personally, I love it.

I absolutely hated ALIEN3 on its release - I remember waiting eagerly for the release in the cinema and was very keen on reading up on it going through various articles at the time - And the ideas that FOX and the filmmakers had which really intrigued me were the ones by William Gibson, Vincent Ward, and Renny Harlin - The cornfield idea was from Vincent Ward's version, which was on a wooden planet, and this version was a complete horror movie version in the realms of something Satanic like THE OMEN and CHILDREN OF THE CORN etc etc. This was a frightening one but the studio let Vincent Ward go. I loved the Renny Harlin version which was the Earth set one which had an 'ALien train', and some warped horrific visions by HR Giger. When Fincher came on board the idea was screwed up and not great. Fans and audiences ripped it apart, the scale and look of it didn't compare to the previous movies. Things improved when RESURRECTION came out, which went back the more science fiction feal with a bit of fun (Yes it got great reviews at the time). However the quality of movies has dropped since then, and now I look at ALIEN3 with affection, it's not the worst in the series anymore, that title goes to COVEnANT and PROMEthEUS.

I think Harlin's version could have been great, or it could have ended like Alien 3 that we got, who knows? I'd love to see the futuristic Earth Harlin had visioned.

The directors cut of 3 is tremendous

@evgenigradinar2731

24 күн бұрын

There's no director's cut

@Doochos

24 күн бұрын

@@evgenigradinar2731 assembly cut then.

The cornfield poster idea I usually tell people just imagine the scene in The Lost World where the Raptors are going through that tall grass but it's Xenomorphs instead. Yeah that could've made for an amazing scene.

I did not mind Alien 3 but I do wish Hicks and News lived hey!! We also did get Aliens on earth with the 2nd Alien vs Predator movie.. Alien vs Predator: Requiem!!

Alien³ holds a special place in my heart. I love how dark and atmospheric the whole movie feels.

I know there's a comic out there that basically is a visual novel of this script. (I think, I last heard about the project a while ago. There's also a comic about the original story treatment by Ron Sushett as well, too. Before Ridley Scott had made some tweaks.)

I had a very vivid dream after watching Aliens. The Aliens were jettisoned down in cryogenic pods onto my school yard and we were all standing around looking at them through the frosted glass. Then the glass doors started to raise and everyone made a panicked scramble for the exits 😂

Isn't Sigourney Weaver on record saying she just wasn't interested in a Xenomorphs on Earth film? The Vincent Ward treatment for Alien 3 would have been incredible. The William Gibson treatment would have been an Aliens-esque blast (with elements of the Thing for good measure). Interestingly, elements from both these treatments have turned up in later Alien films - not least the cornfields (from Ward) and infections (from Gibson) in Covenant. A Quiet Place is an excellent aliens on Earth film, but you have to go micro - drill down into a single, essentially finite, location - the farm and farm house. So it can be done - just within boundaries.

You know that's canceled version of Alien 3 sound a bit similar to the dark horse comic Alien story Earth War It's really good story I wish that became a movie.

Always like A3 directors cut, i think its more in tone to Alien compated to Aliens which was a mid action movie

@mikeadams7904

24 күн бұрын

A mid action movie ?? Wow.😂

I remember seeing a short teaser trailer in the theater for Alien 3 and it being set on Earth. I can't recall the exact text but it was a play on the original "In space nobody can hear you scream". I was excited for that. Then the movie finally came out and it was a stinking pile of shit. I HATED, HATED, HATED it!! I've spent the decades since trying to unsee it. What a spectacular way to torpedo a fantastic series.

@austinwillcut4919

23 күн бұрын

"On Earth everyone can hear you scream"

Alien 3 has to be one of the worst mistakes in cinema history. I remember being sat in the theatre when the lights came back on just being stunned and beyond words. You could hear a pin drop in the packed cinema. People filed out without saying a word. That crap was peak Rian Johnson levels of subverting expectations at a time when Kathleen Kennedy was still making lousy coffee and picking up the dry cleaning. ‘The Last Jedi’ or ‘Terminator Dark Fate’ of Alien. It killed the franchise and its never properly recovered from it since. Only when the internet came around could you find actual idiots with zero taste to defend the monstrosity because ‘misunderstood masterpiece’. 😂 Jesus! Even Brian Glover was terrible in it and it takes a special kind of awful to make me not enjoy watching Brian Glover. I sat and watched Alien and Aliens with my son recently because he’s gotten into the ‘Alien Isolation’ game and we thoroughly enjoyed both movies. After finishing Aliens he pointed to the box-set and asked if we were going to watch Alien 3 and the rest of the fan fic. I gently took him to one side and explained that you never go Alien 3 and beyond. No doubt one day he’ll disregard my advice and end up watching it anyway, and when that day comes I just hope I have the psychological tools on hand to be able to help him deal with his PTSD.

Ohhh what could have been. Then again, a David Fincher Alien movie should be incredible. But if it's being mismanaged, no matter what idea they green lit would have had issues.

'Took place in cornfields'?? Is that how Marvel comics grab that idea and made a comic series few years ago?

I absolutely love Alien 3, specifically the Assembly Cut. Everything about it bar some wonky effects is exactly what I wanted in an Alien movie.

Adam Gibson script should have been the Alien 3 movie we deserved

Ah hello.. We got aliens on earth eventually. It was the disastrous "Aliens vs Predator - Requiem"

wasnt there a comic called the earth war and it was a hit with the alien fans ?

My brother and I recently watched the Assembly Cut. We thoroughly enjoyed it. I do enjoy both versions but I enjoy the Assembly Cut much more.

I am glad that the work print of Alien 3 is out there, because to see that other version of the movie is pretty fascinating.

Directors cut is my favourite 💯

I like 3 it's a underrated film

I like Alien 3 cornfield with aliens that sounds pretty cool

@jimbowlan5804

24 күн бұрын

The corn field did sound cool when I read this along time ago but there are really bad ideas in this script like at the end the xenos make an xeno zord

@BReal23-qm8hs

24 күн бұрын

The first draft of Alien Resurrection had xenomorphs chasing soldiers in a wheat field on the ship.

Harlin also doesn't have the greatest track record. Definitely a few amazing movies, but also several duds

A corn field? That's all they got? Come on. Have a ship full of eggs crash land in a zoo or a jungle or something. Give us some xenomorph variants for once. Somewhere online I saw concept art of a xenomorph that came from a velociraptor host. I know that's probably to outlandish for a movie but damn that thing looked metal AF.

I would think most young fans at the time were terrified of Alien as i was and had nightmares and thoughts of Xenomorphs on earth. I always envisioned on in the house. After Aliens i assumed a third one would take place on Earth

I still recall the moment the Xenomorph literally burst onto the screen from John Hurt (no pun) in the original Alien film. The whole cinema erupted out of their seats. Brilliant movie moment, Also, the focus on the ship's cat as it witnesses the demise of a crew member. Which somehow made it worse than a gratuitous scene. It was left to your imagination as to what was happening. The cat clearly wasn't enjoying the view. The boss fight at the end of Aliens is epic. Ripley has to be one of the best movie characters. I never got invested in Alien 3. I saw the promo and thought "What the hell is Ripley doing on a prison ship?". It was a turn off. Don't know why, it just never attracted me. Maybe because I felt they'd trashed Ripley and I didn't want to see the character portrayed like that?

I think it would’ve been aesthetically jarring to go from the Nostromo to Hadley’s Hope to…. A farm in the Midwest of the US. Seeing Xenomorphs in any environment that feels even remotely contemporary just doesn’t sell for me personally. Even if the characters feel relatable. If it had an incredibly industrial, lived in future, aesthetic outside of the cornfield then maybe it could’ve worked. but I just don’t see how Ripley, Hicks, and Newt would’ve logically ended up involved in the scenario in a farm somewhere.

It seems like after James Cameron's effort that a creative vacuum surrounded the franchise and their was much better directions they could've went. In some ways this idea harkens to a novel "Starship Troopers." Perhaps they should've mined that premise for further sequels. They could've given the military a very good reason to need a bio-weapon, instead of leaving it as some nebulous idea. That would've organically led to new characters, new missions, maybe new threats. Some would argue they did something like that in one of the sequels, but that didn't go anywhere exciting or very compelling. Maybe they could've made a really good story after Resurrection, but I think by that time money losses, among other things, made it too troublesome to go on.