Just when you thought everyone was done having fun with William Gibson’s scripts for Alien 3! A listing for Titan’s new novel has just gone up on Amazon, revealing that Pat Cadigan, “the Hugo Award-Winning “Queen of Cyberpunk,” is taking on the task of bringing Gibson’s first draft of Alien 3 to prose form with Alien 3: The Lost Screenplay!
William Gibson’s never-before-adapted screenplay for the direct sequel to Aliens, revealing the fates of Ripley, Newt, the synthetic Bishop, and Corporal Hicks. When the Colonial Marines vessel Sulaco docks with space station and military installation Anchorpoint, a new form of Xenomorph appears. Written by Hugo Award-winning novelist and “Queen of Cyberpunk” Pat Cadigan, based on Gibson’s never-produced first draft.
The Sulaco—on its return journey from LV-426—enters a sector controlled by the “Union of Progressive Peoples,” a nation-state engaged in an ongoing cold war and arms race. U.P.P. personnel board the Sulaco and find hypersleep tubes with Ripley, Newt, and an injured Hicks. A Facehugger attacks the lead commando, and the others narrowly escape, taking what remains of Bishop with them.
The Sulaco continues to Anchorpoint, a space station and military installation the size of a small moon, where it falls under control of the military’s Weapons Division. Boarding the Sulaco, a team of Colonial Marines and scientists is assaulted by a pair of Xenomorph drones. In the fight Ripley’s cryotube is badly damaged. It’s taken aboard Anchorpoint, where Ripley is kept comatose. Newt and an injured Corporal Hicks are awakened, and Newt is sent to Gateway Station on the way to Earth. The U.P.P. sends Bishop to Anchorpoint, where Hicks begins to hear rumors of experimentation—the cloning and genetic modification of Xenomorphs.
The kind of experimentation that could yield a monstrous hybrid, and perhaps even a Queen.
What’s interesting here is that the blurb specifically calls out Gibson’s first draft. Both Audible and Dark Horse Comic’s adaptations were based on Gibson’s second draft. There were some very notable differences between the two so this may present a very different experience for those already familiar with the previous adaptations.
The adaptation is being written by Pat Cadigan, an award-winning author particularly – and very fittingly – best known for her own work in the cyberpunk genre, a genre that William Gibson is very well known for popularizing. Though not her first foray into licensed fiction (she’s worked on Jason X and Alita: Battle Angel), this will be Pat’s Alien debut!
According to the Amazon listing, Alien 3: The Lost Screenplay will be released on the 31st of August this year. It is also already available for pre-order on Amazon (UK/US) and is now Titan’s third Alien novel of 2021!
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expecting all the alien related stuff to be high tier fun nonsense
but hopefully she'll punch up the writing in regards to Hicks and Bishop (and the UPP commando)
Main problem of those drafts was that there were no really interesting central characters (at least, that's the main complain among people who aren't addicted to cinemasins level pedantry.)
I get that Gibson wanted to return to the "ensemble cast of working class people dealing with horrible things while being manipulated by a big Company"
but.. that's not what i want from Alien anymore especially after how Aliens (and the actual Alien3) were so character-focused.
https://bnccatalist.ca/ViewTitle.aspx?id=29966759
William Gibson's never-before-adapted screenplay for the direct sequel to Aliens, revealing the fates of Ripley, Newt, the synthetic Bishop, and Corporal Hicks. When the Colonial Marines vessel Sulaco docks with space station and military installation Anchorpoint, a new form of Xenomorph appears. Written by Hugo Award-winning novelist and "Queen of Cyberpunk" Pat Cadigan, based on Gibson's never-produced first draft.
The Sulaco—on its return journey from LV-426—enters a sector controlled by the "Union of Progressive Peoples," a nation-state engaged in an ongoing cold war and arms race. U.P.P. personnel board the Sulaco and find hypersleep tubes with Ripley, Newt, and an injured Hicks. A Facehugger attacks the lead commando, and the others narrowly escape, taking what remains of Bishop with them.
The Sulaco continues to Anchorpoint, a space station and military installation the size of a small moon, where it falls under control of the military's Weapons Division. Boarding the Sulaco, a team of Colonial Marines and scientists is assaulted by a pair of Xenomorph drones. In the fight Ripley's cryotube is badly damaged. It's taken aboard Anchorpoint, where Ripley is kept comatose. Newt and an injured Corporal Hicks are awakened, and Newt is sent to Gateway Station on the way to Earth. The U.P.P. sends Bishop to Anchorpoint, where Hicks begins to hear rumors of experimentation—the cloning and genetic modification of Xenomorphs.
The kind of experimentation that could yield a monstrous hybrid, and perhaps even a Queen.
http://vincentwardfilms.com/project/concepts/alien-3/graphic-novel-in-8-parts/part-1/
What's the matter?
Can somebody explain to me what's going on here ?
I apologize to all for my part in this. Done as far as I am concerned.
Thank you FenGiddle
Coming to this blind, I am anxious to see exactly what is the story.
Ah, you're fine. And condolences for your loss, Darwinsgirl.
because she's choosing to spend her years doing what she loves...
absolutely bizarre interpretation of what i wrote.
If anyone has cancer terminal or not there is no "fun" to it.
the writer has terminal cancer, who cares about "adding to the richness of the universe"
hope she had a ton of fun with it. now that's wealth.
sequel trilogy retcon probably won't happen but dumber things have happened in hollywood (just look at the Snyder cut).
New Halloween movie even retcons the previous entries outside of the original.
Same with Dark Fate and the other Terminator films.
I'm just saying.. if it happens...
it will only be surprising if you haven't been paying attention to how Hollywood works.
No, objectively Alien 3 has a deeper well of varied drafts. Early drafts of Alien, Aliens and Alien Resurrection are all very similar to what ended up on screen.
No one claimed such a thing.
The filmed version of Alien 3 ending up better than any of the script drafts - makes it just that - better.
A retcon of the sequel trilogy in Star Wars will never happen. Deal with it shitty SWfandom!
If we are talking about the copyright holders of SW, then I do not know. It looks like after a cold meeting of the nonsense called SeQuEl tRyLogY - someday we'll get a retcon. Not now, but in a few (tens) years. If you mean my opinion, then - yes. Alien 3 is simply an unrivaled level of quality compared to Sequel Trilogy's brown substance.
It's fair to say that this is pretty subjective.
The only one developed does not automatically mean good. Just a survivor in a development hell. Like Morse - he is also the sole survivor of the Fury-161. But you can't call him good or even say - oh, at least someone survived and that's good. Because he is just a "survivor", the last one standing.
The only thing that survived is nonsense with the appearance of the egg. I don't even know which is worse - a magic egg out of nowhere or an egg grown in Bishop. How? Why?
I'm guessing this is because I used the picture of Hicks? In this alternate version of Alien 3, Hicks survives.
Would you say that about The Star Wars too? I strongly disagree with this one. It's just a chance to see those other possibilities, and for Alien fans, Alien 3 is the deep well (unless they let someone in to have a look at all those other sequel pitches we don't know about). But as SM says, none of the others got to really develop, so they do all have that first draft vibe. I think it's important to be aware of that.
Anyway, these are fun alternatives and i kinda feel like this novel might just end up being the best iteration of Gibson's story.
Always has been. This is the dividing point of the community. It seems that even the copyright holders themselves are using the weak Alien 3 to create numerous stories. Like: "Yes-yes, we know you don't like Alien 3, so here you go - keep another Aliens sequel."
Funnily enough, they're all better than Alien 3. I really look forward to this book, especially if it is according to Gibson's first draft.
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comrades
Да, товарищ!
Nobody wants that. It has no UPP in it.
I just hope this sells well and they finally put together a sequel to tie up Gibson's cliffhanger ending.
famous last words..
But I've said it before, and I'll say it again, give me them all! I don't care. Give me Eric Red's too.