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Daily Discussion Thread: 👙 🐈👙🐈 Wednesday, September 4, 2024 (aussie.zone)

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[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm reading the Alien 3 screenplay by William Gibson after watching Alien: Romulus. It's great to see Newt and Hicks get proper character moments in a follow up story. And from what I understand, the story does things with the Aliens we haven't seen on screen yet.

Also, it sucks that they killed off Newt at the start of Alien 3, but something had to be done about her. At the end of Aliens she went into the sleep pod, so she would look a lot like she did once she came out.

The movie languished in development hell for years. As a teenaged girl she'd look very different in Alien 3 to how she did in Aliens. With all the production problems behind Alien 3, it seems like the easiest option than come up with an in universe reason why she's aged. If they went with Gibson's script and got Alien 3 out 2 years or so after Aliens they could have covered it up a lot more.

[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

I had no idea this existed. Thank you!

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

William Gibson of Neuromancer fame? 😲

[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The very same. There are a few unproduced Alien 3 scripts around but Gibson's is considered the best we could have got.

Unfortunately I haven't found a PDF but this is the best web version I've found. I saved it to Pocket and I'm reading it on my Kobo

http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/alien3_gibson.html

[–] mysticgreg@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for this! I saw Romulus on the weekend, and actually re-watched Aliens just last night!

Will definitely be checking this out :)

[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

There's also an Aliens: Engineers screenplay floating around which eventually became Prometheus. It's not perfect but I prefer it to Prometheus. The lore is similar and it helps lock in details since things are explained on the page in a way that may not fully translate on screen.