Pro Teaches n00bs: Lesson 104: Alien 3: Unproduced Screenplay Adaptation

On Today's lesson of Pro teaches n00bs, Raymond joins me as we go over William Gibson's Unproduced Screenplay for Alien 3. WHY DIDN'T WE GET THIS VERSION? Focusing on Hicks & Bishop, we get a cold War style story & more Xenomorph lore expanded!

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.

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