From: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell)
Subject: Alien^3 (was Re: Natives Down the River)
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 06:44:28 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta
Keywords: Alien, Aliens, Alien^3

In article <1992Aug15.105249.12711@phillip.edu.au> t9014201@phillip.edu.au writes:
[snip]
>So...  I cant understand why they made the film this way.
[snip]

Well, this is from the british magazine, Aliens, Volume 2 Number
1, which does stuff like reprint old Dark Horse Comics Aliens and
Predator comic series', have interviews w/ the actors and
behind-the-scenes stuff:

(Blantantly copied, (C) 1992 Dave Hughes & Lee Brimmicombe-Wood)

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Unnatural Selection - The Evolution of Alien 3

 | Time
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WHO				WHAT

    Hill, Giler, Carrol		Producers Walter Hill, David Giler
	|	      \		and Gordon Caroll hire SF Novelist
	|		Gibson	William Gibson to write a screenplay
	|		.	from their treatment, on a Soviet
	|		.	space station. Gibson's draft is
	-		.	rejected.
			.	
      Harlin		.	Eric Red is hired along with director
      /	|		.	Renny Harlin. Red's script, set in
   Red	|		.	a colony of redneck farmers (w/o
	-		.	Ripley) is rejected. Harlin hates it
			.	so much he quits.
			.
   Ward, Fasano  Twohy--Twohy	David Twohy writes two versions of
	|	    .		story set on a prison planet, one
	|			with Ripley and one without.
	|	     .		
	|			Vincent Ward, hired as director, wants
	|	       .	to set the story on a monestary on a
	|\			wooden planetoid. Fox hires John Fasano
	| \		.	to write Ward's verion, telling Twohy
	|  \			that Fasano's script is for Alien 4.
	|   Pruss	.	
	|     |			Greg Pruss hired to rewrite Fasano's
	|     |		.	script. Pruss finds working with Ward
	|     |			hard going and quits over "creative
	|     |		 .	differences." Fasana returns to rewrite
	|    Fasano		own script.
	|     |		  .
	-     |			The Fasano/Ward partnership goes out of
	      |		   .	control. "Ward started to flip out,"
	      |			says insider. Exit Ward as director even
	      |		   .	as sets are being constructed in London.
$10 Million-- |	
	      |		   .		
	Fincher, Ferguson	Enter 27-year-old commercial and music
		\	   .	video director David Fincher and Larry
		 \		Ferguson to rewrite Fasano's 'monks'
$20 Million--	  \	  .	script. Weaver ("At that point I was
		   \		willing to follow him anywhere," she
		    \	.	says) but not with Ferguson, who she
		   Fincher, 	said had made Ripley sound like "a very
		   Hill,	pissed off gym instructor". Exit Ferguson.
		   Giler
		     |		Hill and Giler decide to write as well
		     |		as produce. Their "emergency rewrite"
		     |		reintroduces elements of Twohy's
		     |		"prison planet" script but retains the
		     |		religious elements of the Ward/Fasano
		     |  	period.
		    /|		
		   / |		Rex Picket hired to rewrite second half
		  /  |		of Hill/Giler script. Picket attacks
	      Picket |		Hill and Giler in a private memo
		     |		supporting Fincher's input over the
		     |		writer-producers'. Exit Picket. Fox
		     |		and Weaver happy with Hill/Giler script,
		     |		but Fincher has reservations.
		     |		
		     |		Hill, Giler and Fincher fight for two
		     |		months over the script. Fincher has
		     |		problems with budgetary limitations.
		     |		He recalls that when the president of
		     |		Paramount told him, "Fincher, nobody 
		     |		is going to give you $40 million for
$35 Million--	     |		a first picture," he answered, "I
		     |		know that. What would I do with a 
		     |		40-minute movie?"
		     |		
$40 Million--	     |		Fincher busy filming his "perfectionist"
		     |		Alien 3 in London. Against a background
		     |		of spiraling costs, Fox send 
		     |		"troubleshooter" to oversee Fincher. After
		     |		seeing rough cut, Fox pull plug and order
		     |		Fincher and his crew home.
		     |		
$55 Million--	     |		Hill and Giler return to supervise
		     |		post-production. Extensive list of
		     |		reshoots drawn up, but budgetary
		     |		limitations and Weaver's refusal to
		     |		shave head again prevent ending being
		     |		dramatically altered, despite obvious
		     |		(but coincidental) similarities to the 
		     |		ending of Terminator 2.
		     |		
$65 Million--	     ALIEN 3 released in US.

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Sorry for the... er... maze? Trust me, on paper it looks worse,
this ugly twisted mass of black blobs on a multi-colored backdrop.

This issue also has tech specs for the Pulse Rifles, Smart Guns
and Flamers from Aliens.

Joshua

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