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And Now, a Moment of Silence for All the Alien Movies That Never Got Made
Imagine the timeline in which James Cameron returned to the franchise, Joss Whedon wrote the fifth movie, or Michael Fassbender played David again.
Imagine the alternate timeline in which Aliens director James Cameron returned to the franchise, Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon wrote the fifth movie, or Prometheus ’s Michael Fassbender was allowed to play David again. When producers David Giler, Walter Hill, and Gordon Carroll started to plan the inevitable sequel to the massively successful Aliens in 1987, they went in an unexpected direction: almost entirely sidelining Ripley, who lay in a coma for most of their story, in favor of making Michael Biehn’s Hicks into the protagonist. Harlin decided to move on, and director Vincent Ward then enlisted a writer named John Fasano to hash out a radically different Alien 3 that unfolded on some sort of space monastery on a satellite made almost entirely of wood — imagine the visual potential of a creature clambering up wooden structures.
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