The planetoid is essentially a large space station with artificial gravity affecting the exterior. That would have explained the atmosphere and air pressure..
Ships have artificial gravity but three films have Aliens despatched by blowing the atmosphere out into space. A very thin but breathable atmosphere on top of Arceon would be impossible to sell unless they introduced new technology to explain it. Which they didn’t.
I had the pleasure to read these 109 pages and Iike very much. I'm just little depited the producers don't choose it to make the movie. And I like very much the last line of this script, the dog... Very intersting video.😉
@gregdes6233 Wasn’t the producers call it was fox they had taken control because the film was already in production for 4 years also weaver hated the script and fox had to make her happy because she could just walk away and still get her money
They kind of did. Except it wasn’t really a little planetoid. Part of the story was built in obsolescence. They needed to burn the wood to keep themselves warm, then the smoke from the fires makes the windows sooty and thus making it colder.
When Ward and Fasano were writing there was no continuity with Ripley's daughter. All those scenes were cut and the Special Edition had yet to be released.
3 is a textbook example of producer interference wrecking a great project. See Dune 1984 and many others. The Assembly Cut thankfully saves the film, it's a completely different movie and just about a fitting end to the trilogy, it has a terrific atmosphere. Gibson's and Ward's scripts are interesting history but they're wildly outside the Alien universe imo, would make cool standalone films in their own right. Feels as if they attempt to evolve the Alien biology cycle and abilities for the sake of it; unnecessary and ultimately unsuccessful. The idea of the anti-tech cult in 2023 knowing what we do from Snowden, CBDCs etc this script seems increasingly prescient.
The producers just couldn’t get over the wooden planet but this would have been better than what we got to see but so would the William Gibson version.
