Quote from: OpenMaw on Jan 06, 2018, 12:48:28 PM
This looks very interesting and compelling.
Thanks!
I should probably mention that this is the version of the screenplay that got seen by some high-ups, the final version though has no Amanda or Ellen Ripley, replaced by Engineer William Vidmar and Cpl. Daniel Grant, a character from the novels, and Ann Weyland is Ann Rutherford - she never turns out to be Newt, as I thought it more interesting if she were the black sheep of the Rutherford dynasty. There are no returning characters from the films, instead illuminating otherwise forgotten-about characters from the novels and comics (some of their names are changed, General Thomas Spears is now Admiral Thomas Spears, and Dr. Cotlow from
Tribes is now Dr. White, to facilitate the spiritual message about lower-case xenophobia and the corruption of the military-industrial complex. Also, most of the crew of the USCSS
Rubicon have Hebrew surnames).
I found that whole dynamic was just too distracting from the Marine/Sailor vs. Xenomorph Hive conflict. The marines are the underdogs, and most of it revolves around the crew being picked off one-by-one by a berserk Xenomorph in space, like
Alien, while the Marines try to survive a planet that to call "hostile" would be an understatement, populated by an ecosystem that has almost literally gone insane due to Xenoviral exposure; towards the end they get cornered in the complex by a couple of really big, nasty Xenomorphs after fighting a private army and rogue security systems, and discovering a bunch of colonists being kept like livestock by Spears.