LEBBEUS WOODS has posted some unused concept art he did on ALIEN 3 before David Fincher - and a different script - was brought in. He writes on his site:---
These drawings were made—in Hollywood and Pinewood Studios, England—for a movie that was never made. The movie called Alien3 that was made and seen around the world was conceived and directed by David Fincher, and is notable for it’s unremarkable sets and its unrelenting grimness. The movie I made designs for was directed by Vincent Ward, but ended in its early stages, when he left the project.
The story of the Ward movie was radically different, though it deployed the same basic characters, in that the setting was a religious colony that had escaped the earth and inhabited an abandoned commercial facility deep in space. They had adopted a Medieval way of life, without electricity or modern technology. The Ripley-Alien drama was to be played out inside this crumbling, artificial world. Under Ward’s direction, this would have become something highly original, a movie in which the architecture would have had a central part.
LW
My first idea about the colony’s artificial world....
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I hate Alien3. I like David Fincher as a director and all, but the story was terrible. This could have been better. It doesn't really matter though because in my mind the REAL story happens in the Dark Horse comics...
I agree. The only good aspects of Alien3 are the visuals (lighting, cinematography) that Fincher likes to use in his movies, and the set design.
However, I do recommend watching the "Special Edition". Its alot better and fleshes out the characters. You still have to get past the bullshit of Hicks & Newt dying, but its still worth the watch. I would say, tho, you could stop watching around the time doctor gets killed. From then on, its pretty much the same film with all its faults.
Also, it helps to think of its as a bad Hypersleep dream. That's what I do, heh.
But yeah, give that first half of the special edition a try.
I agree, the Dark Horse comis (first 2 series) are the official sequel to ALIENS. Hell yeah!!!!!!
Jim I understand you're a big fan of that Alien 2 film !! :)
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