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===William Gibson script=== In September 1987, Giler and Hill approached [[cyberpunk]] author [[William Gibson]] to write the script for the third film. Gibson, who told the producers his writing was influenced by ''Alien'', accepted the task. Fearful of [[1988 Writers Guild of America strike|an impending strike]] by the [[Writers Guild of America, West|Writers Guild of America]], Brandywine asked Gibson to deliver a screenplay by December.<ref name="bald" /> Gibson drew heavily from Giler and Hill's treatment, having a strong interest in the "Marxist space empire" element.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2003_09_01_archive.asp#106243398206019606 |title=William Gibson talks about the script |work=WilliamGibsonBooks.com |access-date=December 18, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061230140902/http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2003_09_01_archive.asp#106243398206019606 |archive-date=December 30, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The following year, Finnish director [[Renny Harlin]] was approached by Fox based on his work in ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master]]''.<ref>{{cite web |first=Luke |last=Savage |url= https://denofgeek.com/movies/alien/14416/renny-harlin-interview-12-rounds-die-hard-and-the-alien-3-that-never-was |title=Renny Harlin interview: 12 Rounds, Die Hard, and the Alien 3 that never was |date=May 27, 2009 |website=[[Den of Geek]] |access-date=November 15, 2016}}</ref> Harlin wanted to go in different directions from the first two movies, having interest in both visiting the Alien homeworld or having the Aliens invading Earth.<ref name="wreckage" /> Gibson mockingly summed up his script as "Space commies hijack alien eggs—big problem in Mallworld".<ref name="bald" /> The story picked up after ''Aliens'', with the ''Sulaco'' drifting into an area of space claimed by the "Union of Progressive Peoples". The ship is boarded by people from the UPP, who are attacked by a facehugger hiding in the entrails of Bishop's mangled body. The soldiers blast the facehugger into space and take Bishop with them for further study. The ''Sulaco'' then arrives at a space station–shopping mall hybrid named Anchorpoint. With Ripley put in a coma, Hicks explores the station and discovers Weyland-Yutani are developing an Alien army. In the meantime, the UPP are doing their own research, which led them to repair Bishop. Eventually Anchorpoint and the UPP stations are overrun with the Aliens, and Hicks must team up with the survivors to destroy the parasites. The film ends with a teaser for a fourth movie, where Bishop suggests to Hicks that humans are united against a common enemy, and they must track the Aliens to their source and destroy them.<ref name="bald" /> The screenplay was very action-oriented, featuring an extended cast, and is considered in some circles as superior to the final film and has a considerable following on the Internet.<ref name="about">{{cite web |url= http://horror.about.com/od/horrorthemelists/ss/Greatest-Horror-Movies-Never-Made_5.htm |title=10 of the Greatest Horror Movies Never Made |first=Mark H. |last=Harris |work=Horror.[[About.com]] |access-date=June 2, 2012 |archive-date=April 6, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150406222322/http://horror.about.com/od/horrorthemelists/ss/Greatest-Horror-Movies-Never-Made_5.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref> The producers were on the whole unsatisfied with the screenplay, which Giler described as "a perfectly executed script that wasn't all that interesting",<ref name="wreckage" /> particularly for not taking new directions with the initial pitch. They still liked certain parts, such as the subtext making the Alien a metaphor for [[HIV]], but felt it lacking the human element present in ''Aliens'' and Gibson's trademark cyberpunk aesthetic. Following the end of the WGA strike, Gibson was asked to make rewrites with Harlin, but declined, citing various other commitments and "foot dragging on the producers' part."<ref name="bald" /> On July 12, 2018, it was announced that William Gibson's unmade screenplay of ''Alien 3'' would be adapted into a comic series.<ref name="staley">{{cite web |last1=Staley |first1=Brandon |title=William Gibson's Unproduced Alien 3 Script to be Adapted by Dark Horse |url= https://www.cbr.com/william-gibson-alien-3-comic-book-series/ |website=[[Comic Book Resources|CBR]] |access-date=September 24, 2019 |date=July 12, 2018}}</ref> As part of ''Alien''{{'}}s 40th anniversary, on May 30, 2019, a [[Alien 3 (podcast)|full-cast audio drama]] of William Gibson's unproduced screenplay of ''Alien 3'' was released and made available on [[Audible (store)|Audible]], with both Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen reprising their film-roles.<ref name="starburst" /> Both are based on the second draft. 2021 saw another adaptation of the screenplay, this time as a novel written by [[Pat Cadigan]] from [[Titan Books]]<ref name="cadigan" /> and based instead on the first draft.
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