Alien 3 spent years in development hell with four completely different screenplays being written for it, which were all intriguing in their own ways.
Alien 3 went through many alternate screenplays before reaching the big screen, including the infamous "Wooden Planet" draft. The enormous success of Aliens in 1986 meant a third film was inevitable, but despite being a guaranteed hit, the sequel went through a troubled development.
Sigourney Weaver's participation was far from certain for this version of Alien III, so Ripley is reduced to a cameo and has little to do. Instead, Michael Biehn's Hicks and Lance Henriksen's Bishop take center stage. Gibson wrote two very different drafts. The first was an all-out action movie with the virus creating dozens of Xenomorph variants, while his second draft reduced that number to three.
3 David Twohy's Alien III Red's Alien III was likely penned to underline to Weaver that Ripley could be replaced, but killing key characters offscreen was the only real concept that the final film retained. The next writer was David Twohy whose story took place on a prison planet.
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