Editing Alien 3 (section)

===Development===
With the success of ''Aliens'', [[20th Century Fox]] approached [[Brandywine Productions]] on further sequels. But Brandywine was less than enthused with an ''Alien 3'' project, with producer [[David Giler]] later explaining he and partners [[Walter Hill (director)|Walter Hill]] and [[Gordon Carroll]] wanted to take new directions as "we wouldn't do a repeat of one and two". The trio opted to explore the duplicity of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, and why they were so intent in using the [[Alien (creature in Alien franchise)|Aliens]] as [[Biological warfare|biological weapons]].<ref name="wreckage">{{cite video |title=Wreckage and Rage: The Making of Alien 3 |work=Alien Anthology |at=disk 5 |medium=Blu-ray |publisher=20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |date=2010}}</ref> Various concepts were discussed, eventually settling on a two-part story, with the [[film treatment|treatment]] for the third film featuring "the underhanded Weyland–Yutani Corporation facing off with a militarily aggressive culture of humans whose rigid socialist ideology has caused them to separate from Earth's society." [[Michael Biehn]]'s [[Dwayne Hicks|Corporal Hicks]] would be promoted to protagonist in the third film, with Sigourney Weaver's character of [[Ellen Ripley]] reduced to a cameo appearance before returning in the fourth installment, "an epic battle with alien warriors mass-produced by the expatriated Earthlings." Weaver liked the [[Cold War]] metaphor, and agreed to a smaller role,<ref name="bald">{{cite journal |url= http://www.michaelbiehn.co.uk/gallery/displayimage.php?album=593&pid=21866#top_display_media |title=Bald Ambition |journal=Cinescape |date=November 1997 |access-date=September 4, 2008}}</ref> particularly due to a dissatisfaction with Fox, which removed scenes from ''Aliens'' crucial to Ripley's backstory.<ref name="last">{{cite magazine |url= https://ew.com/article/1992/05/29/sigourney-weaver-talks-about-alien3/ |title=Last in Space |date=May 29, 1992 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=October 12, 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081013103926/https://ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C310615%2C00.html |archive-date=October 13, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|2}}
{{quote box|quote="I felt that Ripley was going to become a burden to the story ... There are only so many aspects to that character you can do."|source=Sigourney Weaver, concerning the future of Ripley.<ref name="bald" />|width=35%|align=right}}

Although Fox was skeptical about the idea, they agreed to finance the development of the story, but asked that Hill and Giler attempt to get [[Ridley Scott]], director of ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'', to make ''Alien 3''. They also asked that the two films be shot back to back to lessen the production costs. While Scott was interested in returning to the franchise, it did not work out due to the director's busy schedule.<ref name="bald" />