Convicts

[StrangeShape]

Either way, Im glad none of those scripts came to pass as I think theyre all terrible. Just an opinion of course but Im so glad we got what we got instead

[SiL]

To be fair they were almost exclusively first drafts (Except Gibson getting to draft 2), which are almost always terrible. If any of them had been drafted and refined they may have turned out much better than what we got. We'll never know.

[Local Trouble]

Was the shooting script we got really so much better than those first drafts?

[SM]

Which one?  It was constantly being revised.

[SiL]

Can't have a worse shooting script if you don't have a shooting script.

[SM]

I tend to think that for all its myriad faults the final film was better than any of the available drafts.

[Local Trouble]

I still want to see an SM draft.

[j0nesy]

can we form a kickstarter for that? 

[Janek]

Either way, Im glad none of those scripts came to pass as I think theyre all terrible. Just an opinion of course but Im so glad we got what we got instead

I tend to think that for all its myriad faults the final film was better than any of the available drafts.

StrangeShape and SM have said all I want to add to the discussion so I will just quote them. Im lazy today.

[Corporal Hicks]

To be fair they were almost exclusively first drafts (Except Gibson getting to draft 2), which are almost always terrible. If any of them had been drafted and refined they may have turned out much better than what we got. We'll never know.

Twohy's apparently got 3 (according to Dissecting Aliens), but we've only got the first online.

[Local Trouble]

How goes the quest to obtain them?

[SpaceKase]

I tend to think that for all its myriad faults the final film was better than any of the available drafts.

Agreed 100%