In celebration of Alien Day, Dark Horse Comics posted a single panel from an upcoming yet unannounced project. They included the caption:
“You may think you know what happens next, but you don’t.
Find out more in July…”
This panel obviously depicts the opening sequence of Alien³, but the tagline that Dark Horse shared suggests this may not be a telling of the Alien³ story that we know. We’ll definitely be keeping an eye on this one.
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Just imagine something along the lines of a Jockey-Guardian. Some kind of a semi-sentient biomechanoid robot that get's turned like a security system. So the humans are dealing with an alien, but also this thing that's on the look out for alien and human alike.
That probably sounds crappy but i would have prefered a direction like that after Aliens. Explore more of the jockeys civilation as designed by Giger. Leave them mysterious and wiped out.
As much as I enjoy the prequels, its not the direction i would have gone with the back story to the original space jockey from Alien.
Having now read the second draft I'd agree with that. In the first it makes sense why they go to Defcon 1 so quickly once shit hits the fan whereas in the second draft it feels a bit too much like they're still reacting to those original events rather than the revised version. Had it gotten to a third draft things might have evened out a bit more.
I do like the scale of the first draft compared to the second, certainly in terms of the Anchorpoint station itself. In the first one it houses hundreds of people and has big malls and social spaces and stuff, whereas in the second it seems like the only people on board are the ones we meet in the story. Hopefully it's the first draft that's being adapted here if only for the scale and the insanity, since as you say, the second one is definitely a lot more toned-down. I still don't really like the idea behind the "New Beast", but as a crazy "what if?" comic I say go nuts.
It's particularly jarring when you look at the way Cameron basically went out of his way to line his movie up with Ridley's.
and then the hell began because Giler's a prick lol
Nope
It's weird, Gibson was basically the only writer who attempted to explain how there can believably be Aliens on the Sulaco after the second film - by having some goo the Queen stuck in Bishop when she impaled him develop into an egg... and then he went and stuck in a couple of magic adults for the lulz.
He fixed it in his second draft by just having the egg, but still. Amazing how he, Red and Ward - and then the shooting script - all had Aliens running amuck on the Sulaco without any explanation.
As Kiramid says, I believe Gibson worked from a loose framework given to him by the producers.
Nope. They're just there.
If there's already this much back and forth fan theorising and debating about whether there was one facehugger or two in the beginning of Alien 3 can you imagine how much there would have been about where those two adults came from if that first draft had actually gotten made?
Not taking any chances with the WGA after Alien.
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/files/scripts/alien-3-william-gibson-1987.pdf
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/files/scripts/alien-3-william-gibson-1988-01.pdf
I used to think they were all Gibson.
Hahahahaha
But that makes no sense.
As I say, the visual aspect of it would be stunning. Pretty nonsensical, but stunning.
But when you actually get down to the plot, characters and dialogue, it surprised me with how bad it actually is. Far worse than I remember.
I think "David's epic gag reflex" should become the answer to all future plot holes.
I started re-reading that last night.
I agree it'd make for a visually stunning comic, but man... The script as a whole is so much worse than I remember.
Something was resolved in the second draft. The guy runs off into the ship instead.
That or David put them there with his epic gag reflex of doom.
Mum must've taken a couple of kids with her on board the dropship.
"Buckle up kids. We're going for a ride"
They were attacked by a face hugger, and the guy that was hugged was blown out the airlock... yet somehow two adult aliens were on board the Sulaco when it docked at Anchorpoint.
I'd have to go peak, but didn't that thing have like four arms or something? There was something off about that adult alien.
I'll give the second draft a read soon, I'm looking forward to seeing how it compares to the first. If it's more stripped-down and potentially filmable then yeah I'd imagine this will probably be an adaptation of the first draft, since that one is certainly pretty big and action-packed.
No, that's not what this is about.
They're simply adapting one of the alternate Alien 3 scripts that never got made. It's not supposed to overwrite or write-off anything.
I wouldn't mind an adaptation that combines the best of both drafts.