Nukes and Knives™: Alien 3: Beyond Fiorina "Fury" 161

Before main event, the history behind third film that never was.

David Giler and Walter Hill approached William Gibson in 1987 to pen screenplay, with Renny Harlin due to direct the following year.

However, producers were dissatisfied by Gibson's vision, and after geezer refused to make rewrites with Harlin; project was scrapped.

WayForward Technologies' Aliens: Infestation lifted some elements, namely rogue U.P.P. soldiers and hybrid xenos.

Johnnie Christmas wrote¹ and illustrated five-piece Dark Horse graphic novel Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay between November 2018 and March 2019.

¹Based on original story.

To business.

Theatrical version (May 1992)

Yes, there was another.

More later.

Poster (cropped)

R-Type III: The Third Lightning
Please note Mother Bydo's projectiles.

Resident Evil Revelations
Malacoda is a mass of parasitic worms, created via the t-Abyss virus.
Before head splits open, this angle looks rather suspicious.

Dog (Super Turrican²) vs Runner

²ntbcw NES game of same name.

Incoming transmission

Finishing the majority of home computer and console versions (less SNES and Game Boy), rewarded player with this ending screen.

As Ripley leaves Fury 161 she turns back one last time
"IT IS DONE .."

Why?

Best guess, devs inhaled way too much quinitricetyline.

More importantly, Probe were very, very naughty.

(You're shitting us, right?)

Afraid not.

Aliens Vol. 2, #4 May, 1990
I'm tired of watching. It's time to finish it.

Man I'm good.

Coincidences

Off-screen, Ripley tells Supt. Andrews her story, who sarcastically responds:

"Let me see if I have this correct, Lieutenant - it's an 8-foot creature of some kind with acid for blood, and it arrived on your spaceship. It kills on sight, and is generally unpleasant.

Polymorph (Red Dwarf III, 1989)

After man-made genetic experiment removes Lister's fear, Rimmer describes 'emotional vampire' as "an 8-foot tall, armour plated alien killing machine."

What's amusing is that episode was obviously influenced by Alien.

Check this out.

Aliens #1 May, 1988
Observe spaceship Dutton.

Hopefully you know what's coming.

Former criminal Charles S. Dutton was cast as Dillon.

HA HA HA!

Finally.

Alien³ comic #3 July, 1992
Unlike film and Alan Dean Foster's novelisation, Queen emerges before Ripley can sacrifice herself, but she manages to break its neck.
She then falls backwards into fiery cauldron.

Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Sebastian's chestburster launches at Scar like a fucking speeding bullet.
Threat is caught and dies the same way.

Did they?

We'll never know.

References

Deadpool (2016)

(Commenting on Negasonic Teenage Warhead's shaved head), Wade exclaims "Ripley, from Alien 3!"

Brilliant.

Treehouse of Horror VI (The Simpsons)
Font of Homer³ is obviously based on said film, but segment was inspired by The Twilight Zone episode Little Girl Lost.

For all its depressing inadequacies, one sequence glitters in acidic gold.

Shortly after murdering Clemens, 'Dragon' squares up to a terrified Ripley.

Others did their thing.

AVP: Requiem

All Through the House (Love Death + Robots)

Pig Hunt

Stealing First Base (The Simpsons)

Special Edition (December 2003)

This is rumour control, here are the facts.

For the release of Alien Quadrilogy (a bullshit phrase btw), Ridley Scott and Jean Pierre Jeunet agreed to create alternative versions of respective films, identical in principle to Aliens SE, but Fincher refused.

Following troubled production history, at the time he nearly quit the business and said:

"I'd rather die of colon cancer than make another movie."

As a lost director's cut didn't exist, Charles de Lauzirika cobbled together new version using so-called 1991 assembly cut

Even though some audio could not be repaired, extended result (featuring never-before-seen footage and effects) was far superior to previous effort.

Alien³: The Gun (1993)

Screw rail shooter's authenticity, because two things interest me.

Royal Facehugger vs Super Face-Hugger