Alien 3 had a famously messy production process, but not every franchise fan knows about the many scenes included in the original script draft that never made it to the big screen. Beginning in 1979 with Blade Runner helmer Ridley Scott’s famous “haunted house in space” sci-fi horror Alien, the Alien franchise has since gone on to straddle the genres of sci-fi, gothic-inspired horror, military action, ambitious mythology, and corporate satire to varying degrees of success.
Scott would later return to the Alien franchise for the divisive 2012 prequel Prometheus and the return-to-form (although still somewhat plothole riddled) Alien: Covenant. But long before those later installments, future Mank helmer David Fincher cut his teeth with the much-delayed, critically derided Alien 3, earning the worst reviews of the franchise thus far for a dark, dreary tale of a prison planet besieged by the beasts of the title.
Still the most critically abhorred of Fincher’s movies, Alien 3’s infamously troubled production process was tortured, to say the least. By now, many Alien franchise fans will have heard about the ambitious sequel plans that were considered but dismissed despite their obvious cinematic potential, ranging from the “wood planet” script treatment that moved Alien 3’s action to a monastery to Neuromancer author/cyberpunk creator William Gibson’s rejected script. But even the finalized script for Alien 3 featured some notable scenes that didn’t make it into the movie, and many of them could have improved the critically hated franchise outing – or made its reception even worse.
Ripley’s Death Wish
This one is strange as, unlike many missing scenes, this sequence did end up in the finished film, albeit in severely truncated form. As proven by the stills depicting the alien’s mouth-within-a-mouth screaming in her terrified face, Ripley does come face-to-face with a Xenomorph during the action of Alien 3. However, Ripley’s face-off against the alien in the basement was originally far longer, with the antiheroine demanding it to kill her and the Xenomorph failing to oblige. The scene would have been both a more suspenseful and effective encapsulation of Ripley’s death wish, with her suicidal streak being brought to life by the ordeal she has endured throughout the first two Alien movies. As a result, it’s hard to see why the sequence was shortened into its existing theatrical cut form, particularly when some of the more striking and scary shots from the original scene remain popular with Alien fans online.
Newt's NC-17 Autopsy Scene
As proven by the shocking death of Kane in the original Alien, these movies have never been scared of showing gruesome action. However, the lengthy original autopsy of Aliens' swiftly killed child heroine Newt was understandably excised from Alien 3 in the reasonable assumption that no one watching the movie would want to see a small kid dissected (although the movie's tone meant Newt's death was the right call, shocking as the move was). However, there was another reason that the autopsy scene (which makes little impact in the final Alien 3) was trimmed down outside of potential audience disgust.
According to one of Alien 3's effects artists, the original autopsy scene was so gross that the movie’s crew themselves were sickened by it, and the sequence had to be heavily reduced to ensure the movie didn’t receive an NC-17 rating. Understandably, the filmmakers opted to cut the scene down, as the NC-17 rating has proven to be box office poison over the years, and the later failure of Alien Vs Predator: Requiem proved that gore alone does not an effective Alien installment make. That said, despite its dark tone, Alien 3 doesn’t feature many memorable deaths, so it’s hard to tell whether this scene should have remained in the movie.
The Ox Xenomorph
As seen on the Alien 3 director’s cut release, originally the dog Xenomorph was supposed to burst free from an ox instead (there was almost an entire stable of farm animal-Xenomorph hybrids, including a gruesome sheep-alien animal that ran the risk of looking a touch absurd). Although intended to be disturbing because of the animal’s agony, the scene ended up a little unintentionally funny due to the unconvincing Xenomorph costume worn by a greyhound to achieve the scene. As a result, the scene was recut to make the animal victim a dog, thus making the dog-Xenomorph costume more believable. In any case, this Alien 3 scene ended up a pale copy of the far gorier and more ambitious sequence from John Carpenter’s The Thing wherein the crew’s dog turns into an eldritch nightmare, and it’s hard to argue that Alien 3’s attempt to ape this scene couldn’t have been better off if it kept a few more animals in the stable to make the effect more shocking
Golic’s Original Death(s)
After securing food for the Xenomorph, the creepy side character Golic originally killed Weyland before being shot to pieces. That death was about as interesting as the one he eventually received in the cinematic cut of Alien 3, but another earlier death for the character saw him survive almost through until the end – only for the titular beast to cocoon him, leading his fellow passengers to mercy kill him. Like many deleted scenes from the Alien movies, this cocoon sequence would have further complicated the surreal biological cycle of the mysterious Xenomorph so, as gruesome and fitting an end as it would have been for Golic, it’s probably for the best that the Byzantine complexities of the alien’s life cycle weren’t rendered even more confusing.
Catwoman Alien
Bizarrely, Fincher opted to give the Xenomorph a fuller set of lips when the beast attacked Ripley. The closeups that illustrate this strange detail aren’t seen in the finished cut of Alien 3, but according to an interview, Fincher was inspired by Catwoman actress Michelle Pfeiffer and wanted a Xenomorph with human lips that killed its victims via a deadly kiss. The director insisted that original Xenomorph designer HR Giger work on a more sensual, human remix of his famous movie creature, and thus viewers missed out on seeing a pair of luscious Xenomoprh lips kissing Ripley in what would have been one of the strangest sights in the entire Alien movie series. Still, at least this would have lightened Alien 3’s bleak tone.
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