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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the 1992 film. For other uses, see <a href="Alien_3_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Alien 3 (disambiguation)">Alien 3 (disambiguation)</a>.</div>

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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size: 125%; font-style: italic;">Alien 3</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">Theatrical release poster</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="David_Fincher" title="David Fincher">David Fincher</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Screenplay by</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">

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<ul><li><a href="David_Giler" title="David Giler">David Giler</a></li>

<li><a href="Walter_Hill" title="Walter Hill">Walter Hill</a></li>

<li><a href="Larry_Ferguson_(screenwriter)" title="Larry Ferguson (screenwriter)">Larry Ferguson</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Story by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Vincent_Ward_(director)" title="Vincent Ward (director)">Vincent Ward</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Based on</th><td class="infobox-data"><div><a href="List_of_Alien_(film_series)_characters" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Alien (film series) characters">Characters</a> by <div class="plainlist" style="display: inline"><ul style="display: inline"><li style="display: inline"><a href="Dan_O'Bannon" title="Dan O'Bannon">Dan O'Bannon</a></li><li><a href="Ronald_Shusett" title="Ronald Shusett">Ronald Shusett</a></li></ul></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Produced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="plainlist">

<ul><li><a href="Gordon_Carroll" title="Gordon Carroll">Gordon Carroll</a></li>

<li>David Giler</li>

<li>Walter Hill</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Sigourney_Weaver" title="Sigourney Weaver">Sigourney Weaver</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_S._Dutton" title="Charles S. Dutton">Charles S. Dutton</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Dance" title="Charles Dance">Charles Dance</a></li>

<li><a href="Lance_Henriksen" title="Lance Henriksen">Lance Henriksen</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Alex_Thomson_(cinematographer)" title="Alex Thomson (cinematographer)">Alex Thomson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Terry_Rawlings" title="Terry Rawlings">Terry Rawlings</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Music by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Elliot_Goldenthal" title="Elliot Goldenthal">Elliot Goldenthal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Production company</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="vertical-align: middle;"><div class="plainlist">

<ul><li><a href="Brandywine_Productions" title="Brandywine Productions">Brandywine Productions</a></li></ul>

</div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="20th_Century_Fox" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Century Fox">20th Century Fox</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Release date</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="plainlist film-date">

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">114 minutes<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Budget</th><td class="infobox-data">$50–60 million<a href="#cite_note-Mojo-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-Numbers-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-AFI_film-59175-4">[4]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Box office</th><td class="infobox-data">$159.8–180 million<a href="#cite_note-Mojo-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-Foxclaim-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-vardec92-6">[6]</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

Alien 3 (stylized as ALIEN3) is a 1992 American <a href="Science_fiction_film" title="Science fiction film">science fiction</a> <a href="Horror_film" title="Horror film">horror film</a> directed by <a href="David_Fincher" title="David Fincher">David Fincher</a> and written by <a href="David_Giler" title="David Giler">David Giler</a>, <a href="Walter_Hill" title="Walter Hill">Walter Hill</a>, and <a href="Larry_Ferguson_(screenwriter)" title="Larry Ferguson (screenwriter)">Larry Ferguson</a>, from a story by <a href="Vincent_Ward_(director)" title="Vincent Ward (director)">Vincent Ward</a>. Starring <a href="Sigourney_Weaver" title="Sigourney Weaver">Sigourney Weaver</a> reprising her role as <a href="Ellen_Ripley" title="Ellen Ripley">Ellen Ripley</a>, it is the third installment of the <a href="Alien_(franchise)" title="Alien (franchise)">Alien franchise</a>.

Set immediately after the events of <a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a> (1986), Ripley and an <a href="Xenomorph_(Alien_franchise)" class="mw-redirect" title="Xenomorph (Alien franchise)">Alien organism</a> are the only survivors of the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco following an escape pod's crash on a planet housing a penal colony populated by violent male inmates. Additional roles are played by <a href="Charles_Dance" title="Charles Dance">Charles Dance</a>, <a href="Brian_Glover" title="Brian Glover">Brian Glover</a>, <a href="Charles_S._Dutton" title="Charles S. Dutton">Charles S. Dutton</a>, <a href="Ralph_Brown" title="Ralph Brown">Ralph Brown</a>, <a href="Paul_McGann" title="Paul McGann">Paul McGann</a>, <a href="Danny_Webb_(actor)" title="Danny Webb (actor)">Danny Webb</a>, <a href="Lance_Henriksen" title="Lance Henriksen">Lance Henriksen</a>, <a href="Holt_McCallany" title="Holt McCallany">Holt McCallany</a>, <a href="Pete_Postlethwaite" title="Pete Postlethwaite">Pete Postlethwaite</a>, and Danielle Edmond. The film had a troubled production, facing numerous problems, including shooting without a script and the attachment of various screenwriters and directors. Fincher, in his <a href="List_of_directorial_debuts" title="List of directorial debuts">feature directorial debut</a>, was eventually brought in to direct after a proposed version with Ward as director was canceled during pre-production.

Alien 3 was released on May 22, 1992. While it underperformed at the American box office, it earned over $100 million outside North America. The film received mixed reviews and was regarded as inferior to previous installments. Fincher has since disowned the film, deeming it unfaithful to his original vision due to studio interference. It was nominated for an <a href="Academy_Award_for_Best_Visual_Effects" title="Academy Award for Best Visual Effects">Academy Award for Best Visual Effects</a>, seven <a href="Saturn_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Saturn Award">Saturn Awards</a> (<a href="Saturn_Award_for_Best_Science_Fiction_Film" title="Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film">Best Science Fiction Film</a>, <a href="Saturn_Award_for_Best_Actress" title="Saturn Award for Best Actress">Best Actress</a> for Weaver, <a href="Saturn_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor" title="Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor">Best Supporting Actor</a> for Dutton, <a href="Saturn_Award_for_Best_Director" title="Saturn Award for Best Director">Best Direction</a> for Fincher, and <a href="Saturn_Award_for_Best_Writing" title="Saturn Award for Best Writing">Best Writing</a> for Giler, Hill, and Ferguson), a <a href="Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Award</a> for <a href="Hugo_Award_for_Best_Dramatic_Presentation" title="Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation">Best Dramatic Presentation</a>, and an <a href="MTV_Movie_Award_for_Best_Action_Sequence" title="MTV Movie Award for Best Action Sequence">MTV Movie Award for Best Action Sequence</a>. A sequel, <a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a>, followed in 1997. In 2003, an extended and revised version of the film known as the <a href="#Assembly_Cut">Assembly Cut</a> was released without Fincher's involvement, which received a warmer reception.

Shortly after escaping the planet LV-426,<a href="#cite_note-7">[a]</a> an egg that managed to get aboard the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco hatches, releasing a <a href="Alien_(creature_in_Alien_franchise)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien (creature in Alien franchise)">facehugger</a>. A fire starts and the ship's computer launches an escape pod containing <a href="Ellen_Ripley" title="Ellen Ripley">Ellen Ripley</a>, Newt, <a href="Dwayne_Hicks" title="Dwayne Hicks">Hicks</a>, and the damaged <a href="Android_(robot)" title="Android (robot)">android</a> <a href="Bishop_(Aliens)" title="Bishop (Aliens)">Bishop</a>; all four are in <a href="Cryonics" title="Cryonics">cryonic</a> <a href="Stasis_(fiction)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stasis (fiction)">stasis</a>. The pod crash-lands on Fiorina "Fury" 161, a <a href="Foundry" title="Foundry">foundry</a> and maximum-security correctional facility inhabited by male inmates with a genetic predisposition for antisocial behavior. The inmates recover the crashed pod and its passengers. The facehugger approaches inmate Thomas Murphy's dog, Spike.

Ripley is awakened by Clemens, the prison's chief medical officer, who informs her that she is the sole survivor. The prison warden, Harold Andrews, says that her presence may have disruptive effects. Ripley insists that Clemens perform an <a href="Autopsy" title="Autopsy">autopsy</a> on Newt and that her and Hicks's bodies be subsequently burned, fearing that Newt may be carrying an Alien embryo. Despite protests from the warden and his assistant Aaron, the autopsy is conducted and no embryo is found. The funeral proceeds with spiritual leader Dillon eulogizing the deceased as their bodies are dropped into the furnace. Elsewhere in the prison, a quadrupedal alien bursts from Spike.

Ripley finds the damaged Bishop in the prison's garbage dump before being cornered by four inmates and almost gang-raped. After being saved by Dillon, Ripley returns to the infirmary and re-activates Bishop, who, before asking to be permanently shut down, confirms that a Facehugger came with them to Fiorina, under knowledge of the <a href="Weyland-Yutani_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Weyland-Yutani Corporation">Weyland-Yutani Corporation</a>. Growing to full size, the alien kills Murphy, Boggs, and Rains. The shock returns outcast prisoner Golic to his previously psychopathic state. Ripley informs Andrews of her previous Xenomorph encounters<a href="#cite_note-8">[b]</a> and suggests everyone work together to hunt down and kill it. However, the facility is without weapons; their only hope is the rescue ship being sent for Ripley by Weyland-Yutani.

The Alien ambushes Ripley and Clemens in the prison <a href="First_aid_room" title="First aid room">infirmary</a>, killing him, and cornering her. However, it mysteriously spares her and retreats. Ripley rushes to the cafeteria to warn the others. Andrews orders Aaron to take her back to the infirmary, but the warden himself is dragged into the vents and killed by the Alien. Ripley rallies the inmates and proposes they pour flammable toxic waste into the ventilation system and ignite it to flush out the Alien. However, its intervention causes a premature explosion and several inmates die. With Aaron's help, Ripley scans herself using the escape pod's medical equipment and sees the embryo of an <a href="Alien_Queen" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien Queen">Alien Queen</a> growing inside her. Upon this discovery, she realizes that Weyland-Yutani plans on capturing the alien incubating inside of her in hopes of turning it into <a href="Biological_warfare" title="Biological warfare">biological weapons</a>.

The Alien will not kill her because of the embryo she was carrying, so Ripley begs Dillon to do it; he agrees only if she helps the inmates kill the Alien first. They form a plan to lure the Alien into the foundry's molding facility, trap it, and drown it in molten <a href="Lead" title="Lead">lead</a>. The bait-and-chase plan results in the deaths of every remaining prisoner but Dillon and Morse. Dillon sacrifices himself to position the Alien towards the mold as Morse pours the molten lead onto them. Although the Alien is covered in molten metal, it escapes the mold. Ripley activates the fire sprinklers, blowing the Alien apart from <a href="Thermal_shock" title="Thermal shock">thermal shock</a>.

The Weyland–Yutani team arrives, including commandos and a man who looks identical to Bishop who says he is Bishop's creator.<a href="#cite_note-11">[c]</a> He tries to persuade Ripley to undergo surgery to remove the Alien Queen embryo, claiming it will be destroyed. Ripley refuses and steps back onto a mobile platform, which Morse positions over the furnace. The Weyland–Yutani team shoots Morse in the leg to stop him; Aaron strikes the Bishop look-alike with a wrench and is shot dead by the commandos. Ignoring pleas to give them the embryo, Ripley throws herself into the furnace, holding captive the infant queen as it erupts from her. The facilities are closed down. Morse, the sole survivor, is led away as Ripley's final <a href="Logbook" title="Logbook">logbook</a> recording from the Nostromo plays.

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="List_of_Alien_(franchise)_characters" title="List of Alien (franchise) characters">List of Alien (franchise) characters</a></div>

<ul><li><a href="Sigourney_Weaver" title="Sigourney Weaver">Sigourney Weaver</a> as <a href="Ellen_Ripley" title="Ellen Ripley">Ellen Ripley</a>, reprising her role from the previous two Alien films. Ripley crash-lands on Fiorina 161 and is once again burdened with the task of destroying another of the alien creatures. Weaver approved of David Twohy's script and signed on, but demanded a larger salary of $4–5 million, plus co-producing credit. She also requested for the action not to rely on guns.<a href="#cite_note-AFI_film-59175-4">[4]</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_S._Dutton" title="Charles S. Dutton">Charles S. Dutton</a> as Leonard Dillon, one of Fiorina's inmates who functions as the spiritual and de facto leader amongst the prisoners and attempts to keep the peace in the facility.<a href="#cite_note-AFI_film-59175-4">[4]</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Dance" title="Charles Dance">Charles Dance</a> as Jonathan Clemens, a former inmate who now serves as the facility's doctor.<a href="#cite_note-AFI_film-59175-4">[4]</a> He treats Ripley after her escape pod crashes at the start of the film and forms a special bond with her. Before he is killed by the Alien, Clemens laments to Ripley why he was originally sent to Fiorina, describing it as "more than a little melodramatic". Fincher initially offered the role to <a href="Richard_E._Grant" title="Richard E. Grant">Richard E. Grant</a>, hoping to reunite him with <a href="Withnail_and_I" title="Withnail and I">Withnail and I</a> co-stars Ralph Brown and Paul McGann.<a href="#cite_note-wreckage-12">[9]</a></li>

<li><a href="Brian_Glover" title="Brian Glover">Brian Glover</a> as Harold Andrews, the prison warden. He believes Ripley's presence will cause disruption amongst the inmates and attempts to control the rumors surrounding her and the creature. He rejects her claims about the existence of such a creature, only to be killed by it.<a href="#cite_note-AFI_film-59175-4">[4]</a></li>

<li><a href="Ralph_Brown" title="Ralph Brown">Ralph Brown</a> as Francis Aaron, the assistant of Superintendent Andrews. The prisoners refer to him by the nickname "85", after his <a href="Intelligence_quotient" title="Intelligence quotient">IQ</a> score, which annoys him. He opposes Ripley's insistence that the prisoners must try to fight the Alien, and repudiates her claim that Weyland–Yutani will collect the alien instead of them.<a href="#cite_note-AFI_film-59175-4">[4]</a></li>

<li><a href="Paul_McGann" title="Paul McGann">Paul McGann</a> as Walter Golic. A mass-murderer and outcast amongst the prison population, Golic becomes very disturbed after being assaulted by the Alien in the prison's underground network of tunnels, gradually becoming more and more obsessed with the Alien. In the Assembly Cut of the film, his obsession with and defense of the creature lead to murder and his own demise, and his actions jeopardize the entire plan.<a href="#cite_note-AFI_film-59175-4">[4]</a></li>

<li><a href="Danny_Webb_(actor)" title="Danny Webb (actor)">Danny Webb</a> as Robert Morse, an acerbic, self-centered, and cynical prisoner. Albeit wounded by the Weyland–Yutani team, Morse is the only survivor from the entire Fiorina 161 population (including Ripley).<a href="#cite_note-AFI_film-59175-4">[4]</a></li>

<li><a href="Lance_Henriksen" title="Lance Henriksen">Lance Henriksen</a> as the voice of the damaged <a href="Bishop_(Aliens)" title="Bishop (Aliens)">Bishop</a> android, as well as a character credited as Bishop II. He appears in the film's final scenes, claiming to be the human designer of the Bishop android, and wants the Alien Queen that was growing inside Ripley for use in Weyland-Yutani's bioweapons division.<a href="#cite_note-AFI_film-59175-4">[4]</a> The character is named as "Michael Bishop Weyland" in certain tie-in materials.<a href="#cite_note-Bishop2-9">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-Weyland-Yutani_Report-10">[8]</a></li>

<li><a href="Tom_Woodruff_Jr." title="Tom Woodruff Jr.">Tom Woodruff Jr.</a> as the Alien known as <a href="Alien_(creature_in_Alien_franchise)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien (creature in Alien franchise)">"Dragon"</a>.<a href="#cite_note-A3DVD-13">[10]</a> This Alien is different from the ones in previous installments due to its host being quadrupedal (a dog in the theatrical cut, an ox in the assembly cut). Initially a <a href="Visual_effects" title="Visual effects">visual effects</a> supervisor, Woodruff decided to take the role of the creature after his company, Amalgamated Dynamics, was hired by Fox.<a href="#cite_note-fright-14">[11]</a> Woodruff said that, following Sigourney Weaver's advice, he approaches the role as an actor instead of a stuntman, trying to make his performance more than "just a guy in a suit". He considered the acting process "as much physical as it is mental".<a href="#cite_note-shock-15">[12]</a></li>

<li><a href="Pete_Postlethwaite" title="Pete Postlethwaite">Pete Postlethwaite</a> as David Postlethwaite, an inmate smarter than most who is killed by the Alien in the bait-and-chase sequence.<a href="#cite_note-AFI_film-59175-4">[4]</a></li>

<li><a href="Holt_McCallany" title="Holt McCallany">Holt McCallany</a> as Junior, the leader of the group of inmates who attempt to rape Ripley. He has a tattoo of a tear drop underneath his right eye. In the Assembly Cut, he sacrifices himself to trap the Alien as redemption.<a href="#cite_note-AFI_film-59175-4">[4]</a></li>

<li><a href="Peter_Guinness_(actor)" title="Peter Guinness (actor)">Peter Guinness</a> as Peter Gregor, one of the inmates who attempts to rape Ripley; he is bitten in the neck and killed by the Alien during the bait-and-chase sequence.<a href="#cite_note-AFI_film-59175-4">[4]</a></li>

<li>Danielle Edmond as Rebecca "Newt" Jordan,<a href="#cite_note-16">[13]</a> the child Ripley forms a maternal bond with in the previous film who briefly returns as a corpse being autopsied. <a href="Carrie_Henn" class="mw-redirect" title="Carrie Henn">Carrie Henn</a> was unable to reprise her role as Newt as she was too old for the part so Danielle Edmond took over the role in this installment for the brief autopsy scene with Newt's corpse.<a href="#cite_note-17">[14]</a></li>

<li><a href="Christopher_Fairbank" title="Christopher Fairbank">Christopher Fairbank</a> as Thomas Murphy.<a href="#cite_note-BFI_Alien3-18">[15]</a></li>

<li><a href="Phil_Davis_(actor)" title="Phil Davis (actor)">Phil Davis</a> as Kevin Dodd.<a href="#cite_note-BFI_Alien3-18">[15]</a></li>

<li><a href="Vincenzo_Nicoli" title="Vincenzo Nicoli">Vincenzo Nicoli</a> as Alan Jude.<a href="#cite_note-BFI_Alien3-18">[15]</a></li>

<li><a href="Leon_Herbert" title="Leon Herbert">Leon Herbert</a> as Edward Boggs.<a href="#cite_note-BFI_Alien3-18">[15]</a></li>

<li><a href="Niall_Buggy" title="Niall Buggy">Niall Buggy</a> as Eric Buggy.<a href="#cite_note-BFI_Alien3-18">[15]</a></li>

<li>Hi Ching as Company Man.<a href="#cite_note-BFI_Alien3-18">[15]</a></li>

<li>Carl Chase as Frank Ellis.<a href="#cite_note-BFI_Alien3-18">[15]</a></li>

<li><a href="Clive_Mantle" title="Clive Mantle">Clive Mantle</a> as Clive William.<a href="#cite_note-BFI_Alien3-18">[15]</a></li>

<li><a href="DeObia_Oparei" title="DeObia Oparei">DeObia Oparei</a> as Arthur Walkingstick.<a href="#cite_note-BFI_Alien3-18">[15]</a></li>

<li>Paul Brennen as Yoshi Troy.<a href="#cite_note-BFI_Alien3-18">[15]</a></li></ul>

An archive picture of <a href="Michael_Biehn" title="Michael Biehn">Michael Biehn</a> as <a href="Dwayne_Hicks" title="Dwayne Hicks">Corporal Dwayne Hicks</a> appears.<a href="#cite_note-RemarEmpire-19">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-THRBiehn-20">[17]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Development">Development</h3></div>

With the success of Aliens, <a href="20th_Century_Fox" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Century Fox">20th Century Fox</a> approached <a href="Brandywine_Productions" title="Brandywine Productions">Brandywine Productions</a> on further sequels. But Brandywine was less than enthused with an Alien 3 project, with producer <a href="David_Giler" title="David Giler">David Giler</a> later explaining he and partners <a href="Walter_Hill_(director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Hill (director)">Walter Hill</a> and <a href="Gordon_Carroll" title="Gordon Carroll">Gordon Carroll</a> 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 <a href="Alien_(creature_in_Alien_franchise)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien (creature in Alien franchise)">Aliens</a> as <a href="Biological_warfare" title="Biological warfare">biological weapons</a>.<a href="#cite_note-wreckage-12">[9]</a> Various concepts were discussed, eventually settling on a two-part story, with the <a href="Film_treatment" title="Film treatment">treatment</a> 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." <a href="Michael_Biehn" title="Michael Biehn">Michael Biehn</a>'s <a href="Dwayne_Hicks" title="Dwayne Hicks">Corporal Hicks</a> would be promoted to protagonist in the third film, with Sigourney Weaver's character of <a href="Ellen_Ripley" title="Ellen Ripley">Ellen Ripley</a> 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 <a href="Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> metaphor, and agreed to a smaller role,<a href="#cite_note-bald-21">[18]</a> particularly due to a dissatisfaction with Fox, which removed scenes from Aliens crucial to Ripley's backstory.<a href="#cite_note-last-22">[19]</a>: 2

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"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."

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<div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">Sigourney Weaver, concerning the future of Ripley.<a href="#cite_note-bald-21">[18]</a></cite></div>

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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 <a href="Ridley_Scott" title="Ridley Scott">Ridley Scott</a>, director of <a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a>, 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.<a href="#cite_note-bald-21">[18]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="William_Gibson_script">William Gibson script</h3></div>

In September 1987, Giler and Hill approached <a href="Cyberpunk" title="Cyberpunk">cyberpunk</a> author <a href="William_Gibson" title="William Gibson">William Gibson</a> to write the script for the third film. Gibson, who told the producers his writing was influenced by Alien, accepted the task. Fearful of <a href="1988_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike" title="1988 Writers Guild of America strike">an impending strike</a> by the <a href="Writers_Guild_of_America%2C_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Writers Guild of America, West">Writers Guild of America</a>, Brandywine asked Gibson to deliver a screenplay by December.<a href="#cite_note-bald-21">[18]</a> Gibson drew heavily from Giler and Hill's treatment, having a strong interest in the "Marxist space empire" element.<a href="#cite_note-23">[20]</a> The following year, Finnish director <a href="Renny_Harlin" title="Renny Harlin">Renny Harlin</a> was approached by Fox based on his work in <a href="A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_4%3A_The_Dream_Master" title="A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master">A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master</a>.<a href="#cite_note-24">[21]</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-wreckage-12">[9]</a>

Gibson mockingly summed up his script as "Space commies hijack alien eggs—big problem in Mallworld".<a href="#cite_note-bald-21">[18]</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-bald-21">[18]</a>

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.<a href="#cite_note-about-25">[22]</a> The producers were on the whole unsatisfied with the screenplay, which Giler described as "a perfectly executed script that wasn't all that interesting",<a href="#cite_note-wreckage-12">[9]</a> 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 <a href="HIV" title="HIV">HIV</a>, 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."<a href="#cite_note-bald-21">[18]</a> On July 12, 2018, it was announced that William Gibson's unmade screenplay of Alien 3 would be adapted into a comic series.<a href="#cite_note-staley-26">[23]</a> As part of Alien's 40th anniversary, on May 30, 2019, a <a href="Alien_3_(podcast)" title="Alien 3 (podcast)">full-cast audio drama</a> of William Gibson's unproduced screenplay of Alien 3 was released and made available on <a href="Audible_(store)" class="mw-redirect" title="Audible (store)">Audible</a>, with both Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen reprising their film-roles.<a href="#cite_note-starburst-27">[24]</a> Both are based on the second draft. 2021 saw another adaptation of the screenplay, this time as a novel written by <a href="Pat_Cadigan" title="Pat Cadigan">Pat Cadigan</a> from <a href="Titan_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Titan Books">Titan Books</a><a href="#cite_note-cadigan-28">[25]</a> and based instead on the first draft.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eric_Red_script">Eric Red script</h3></div>

Following Gibson's departure, Harlin suggested screenwriter <a href="Eric_Red" title="Eric Red">Eric Red</a>, writer of the cult horror films <a href="The_Hitcher_(1986_film)" title="The Hitcher (1986 film)">The Hitcher</a> and <a href="Near_Dark" title="Near Dark">Near Dark</a>. Red worked less than two months to deliver his draft in February 1989,<a href="#cite_note-bald-21">[18]</a> which led him to later describe his Alien 3 work as "the one script I completely disown because it was not 'my script'. It was the rushed product of too many story conferences and interference with no time to write, and turned out utter crap."<a href="#cite_note-29">[26]</a> His approach had a completely new set of characters and subplots, while also introducing new breeds of the Alien.<a href="#cite_note-bald-21">[18]</a> The plot opened with a team of Special Forces marines boarding the Sulaco and finding that all survivors had fallen victim to the aliens. Afterwards, it moved into a small-town U.S. city in a type of bio-dome in space, culminating in an all-out battle with the townsfolk facing hordes of Alien warriors. Brandywine rejected Red's script for deviating too much from their story, and eventually gave up on developing two sequels simultaneously.<a href="#cite_note-bald-21">[18]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="David_Twohy_script">David Twohy script</h3></div>

Writer <a href="David_Twohy" title="David Twohy">David Twohy</a> was next to work on the project, being instructed to start with Gibson's script. Once the <a href="Revolutions_of_1989" title="Revolutions of 1989">fall of Communism</a> made the Cold War analogies outdated, Twohy changed his setting to a prison planet, which was being used for illegal experiments on the aliens for biological warfare.<a href="#cite_note-bald-21">[18]</a> Harlin felt this approach was too similar to the previous movies, and, tired of the <a href="Development_hell" title="Development hell">development hell</a>, walked out on the project, which led Fox to offer Harlin <a href="The_Adventures_of_Ford_Fairlane" title="The Adventures of Ford Fairlane">The Adventures of Ford Fairlane</a>.<a href="#cite_note-30">[27]</a>

Twohy's script was delivered to Fox president <a href="Joe_Roth" title="Joe Roth">Joe Roth</a>, who did not like the idea of Ripley being removed, declaring that "Sigourney Weaver is the centerpiece of the series" and Ripley was "really the only female warrior we have in our movie mythology".<a href="#cite_note-Jolin-31">[28]</a> Weaver was then called, with a reported $4 million salary, plus a share of the box office receipts.<a href="#cite_note-last-22">[19]</a>: 1 She also requested the story to be suitably impressive, original, and non-dependent on guns. Twohy duly set about writing Ripley into his screenplay.<a href="#cite_note-Jolin-31">[28]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Start-up_with_Vincent_Ward">Start-up with Vincent Ward</h3></div>

Once Hill attended a screening of <a href="The_Navigator%3A_A_Medieval_Odyssey" title="The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey">The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey</a>, he decided to invite its director, <a href="Vincent_Ward_(director)" title="Vincent Ward (director)">Vincent Ward</a>. Ward, who was in London developing <a href="Map_of_the_Human_Heart" title="Map of the Human Heart">Map of the Human Heart</a>,<a href="#cite_note-bald-21">[18]</a> accepted the project only on the third call, as he at first was uninterested in doing a sequel. Ward thought little of the Twohy script, and instead worked up another idea, involving Ripley's escape pod crash landing on a monastery-like satellite. Having developed this pitch on his flight to Los Angeles, once Ward got with the studio executives he saw his idea approved by the studio. Ward was hired to direct Alien 3, and writer John Fasano was hired to expand his story into a screenplay.<a href="#cite_note-wreckage-12">[9]</a> Once Twohy discovered through a journalist friend that another script was being written concurrently with his, he went after Fox and eventually left the project.<a href="#cite_note-32">[29]</a>

Ward envisioned a planet whose interior was both wooden and archaic in design, where <a href="Luddite" title="Luddite">Luddite</a>-like monks would take refuge. The story begins with a monk who sees a "star in the East" (Ripley's escape pod) and at first believes this to be a good omen. Upon arrival of Ripley, and with increasing suggestions of the Alien presence, the monk inhabitants believe it to be some sort of religious trial for their misdemeanors, punishable by the creature that haunts them. By having a woman in their monastery, they wonder if their trial is partially caused by sexual temptation, as Ripley is the only woman to be amongst the all-male community in ten years. To avoid this belief and (hopefully) the much grimmer reality of what she has brought with her, the monks of the "wooden satellite" lock Ripley into a dungeon-like sewer and ignore her advice on the true nature of the beast.<a href="#cite_note-33">[30]</a> The monks believe that the Alien is in fact the Devil. Primarily though, this story was about Ripley's own soul-searching complicated by the seeding of the Alien within her and further hampered by her largely solo attempts to defeat it. Eventually Ripley decides to sacrifice herself to kill the Alien. Fox asked for an alternative ending in which Ripley survived, but Weaver would agree to the film only if Ripley died.<a href="#cite_note-wreckage-12">[9]</a>

<a href="Empire_(film_magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Empire (film magazine)">Empire</a> magazine described Ward's 'Wooden Planet' concept as 'undeniably attractive—it would have been visually arresting and at the very least, could have made for some astonishing action sequences.' In the same article, <a href="Norman_Reynolds" title="Norman Reynolds">Norman Reynolds</a>—the production designer originally hired by Ward—remembers an early design idea for "a wooden library shaft. You looked at the books on this wooden platform that went up and down". 'Imagine the kind of vertical jeopardy sequence that could have been staged here—the Alien clambering up these impossibly high bookshelves as desperate monks work the platform'.<a href="#cite_note-Jolin-31">[28]</a>: 156 Sigourney Weaver described Ward's overall concept as "very original and arresting".<a href="#cite_note-Jolin-31">[28]</a>: 153 Former <a href="The_Times" title="The Times">Times</a> journalist David Hughes included Ward's version of Alien 3 amongst "The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made" in his book of this title.<a href="#cite_note-34">[31]</a>

However, the concept was divisive among the production crew. The producers at Brandywine discussed the logical problems of creating and maintaining a wooden planet in space, while Fox executive <a href="Jon_Landau_(film_producer)" title="Jon Landau (film producer)">Jon Landau</a> considered Ward's vision to be "more on the artsy-fartsy side than on the big commercial side" that Ridley Scott and James Cameron employed. Ward managed to dissuade the producers of their idea of turning the planet into an ore refinery and the monks into prisoners, but eventually Fox asked for a meeting with the director imposing a list of changes to be made. Refusing to do so, Ward was fired. The main plot of the finished film still follows Ward's basic structure.<a href="#cite_note-wreckage-12">[9]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Walter_Hill_and_David_Giler's_script">Walter Hill and David Giler's script</h3></div>

Hill and Giler did a first draft trying to enhance the story structure on the Fasano script, and feeling creatively drained, hired <a href="Larry_Ferguson_(screenwriter)" title="Larry Ferguson (screenwriter)">Larry Ferguson</a> as a <a href="Script_doctor" title="Script doctor">script doctor</a>. Ferguson's work was not well received in the production, particularly by Sigourney Weaver, who felt Ferguson made Ripley sound like "a pissed-off gym teacher". Short on time before filming was due to commence, Hill and Giler took control of the screenplay themselves, melding aspects of the Ward/Fasano script with Twohy's earlier prison planet screenplay to create the basis of the final film.<a href="#cite_note-bald-21">[18]</a> Sigourney Weaver had also had a clause written into her contract stating the final draft should be written by Hill and Giler, believing that they were the only writers (besides James Cameron) to write the character of Ripley effectively.<a href="#cite_note-wreckage-12">[9]</a> Fox approached music video director <a href="David_Fincher" title="David Fincher">David Fincher</a> to replace Ward.<a href="#cite_note-35">[32]</a> Fincher did further work on the screenplay with author <a href="Rex_Pickett" title="Rex Pickett">Rex Pickett</a>, and despite Pickett being fired and Hill and Giler writing the final draft of the screenplay, he revised most of the work done by the previous authors.<a href="#cite_note-36">[33]</a> Fincher wanted <a href="Gary_Oldman" title="Gary Oldman">Gary Oldman</a> to star in the film, but the pair "couldn't work it out".<a href="#cite_note-37">[34]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Filming">Filming</h3></div>

Filming began on January 14, 1991, at <a href="Pinewood_Studios" title="Pinewood Studios">Pinewood Studios</a> without a finished script and with $7 million already having been spent.<a href="#cite_note-last-22">[19]</a>: 3 While a majority of the film was shot at Pinewood, some scenes were shot at <a href="Blyth_Power_Station" title="Blyth Power Station">Blyth Power Station</a> and the beach near <a href="Dawdon" title="Dawdon">Dawdon</a> (known locally as "the Blast" or "Blast Beach") in the UK.<a href="#cite_note-sine_project-38">[35]</a> The purpose of these shots was to show the exterior of the planet.<a href="#cite_note-39">[36]</a> <a href="Cinematographer" title="Cinematographer">Cinematographer</a> <a href="Jordan_Cronenweth" title="Jordan Cronenweth">Jordan Cronenweth</a>, in deteriorating health following a diagnosis of <a href="Parkinsons_Disease" class="mw-redirect" title="Parkinsons Disease">Parkinsons Disease</a> a decade earlier<a href="#cite_note-40">[37]</a> worked only for two weeks before becoming too ill to continue. He was replaced by <a href="Alex_Thomson_(cinematographer)" title="Alex Thomson (cinematographer)">Alex Thomson</a>.<a href="#cite_note-41">[38]</a> Actor <a href="Charles_Dance" title="Charles Dance">Charles Dance</a> said that an alternative ending had been filmed due to fears that the original ending was too similar to the ending of <a href="Terminator_2%3A_Judgment_Day" title="Terminator 2: Judgment Day">Terminator 2: Judgment Day</a>, released the previous year, but was not used.<a href="#cite_note-42">[39]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Visual_effects">Visual effects</h3></div>

<a href="Stan_Winston" title="Stan Winston">Stan Winston</a>, responsible for creature effects in Aliens, was approached but was not available. Winston instead recommended Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis, two former workers of his studio who had just started their own company, <a href="Amalgamated_Dynamics" title="Amalgamated Dynamics">Amalgamated Dynamics</a>.<a href="#cite_note-fright-14">[11]</a> Even before principal photography had begun, the practical effects crew was developing models of the Alien and the corpses of the Sulaco victims. <a href="Richard_Edlund" title="Richard Edlund">Richard Edlund</a>'s <a href="Boss_Film_Studios" title="Boss Film Studios">Boss Film Studios</a> was hired for <a href="Compositing" title="Compositing">compositing</a> and other post-production effects.<a href="#cite_note-wreckage-12">[9]</a> A small number of shots contain <a href="Computer-generated_imagery" title="Computer-generated imagery">computer-generated imagery</a>, most notably the cracking alien head once the sprinklers cause thermal shock. Other CGI elements include shadows cast by the rod puppet alien, and airborne debris in outdoor scenes.<a href="#cite_note-Visual_Effects-43">[40]</a>

David Fincher wanted the alien to be, "more of a puma, or a beast" as opposed to the upright, humanoid posture of the previous films, so the designer of the original alien, <a href="H._R._Giger" title="H. R. Giger">H. R. Giger</a>, was contacted to generate new sketch ideas. His revisions included longer, thinner legs, the removal of "pipes" around the spine, and an idea for a sharp alien "tongue" in place of the secondary jaws. Working from his studio in Zurich, Giger produced these new sketches which he faxed to Cornelius de Fries who then created their model counterparts out of <a href="Plasticine" title="Plasticine">plasticine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-xeno-44">[41]</a> The only one of Giger's designs that wound up in the final project was a "Bambi Burster" Alien that had long legs and walked on all fours. ADI also built a full-scale <a href="Bunraku" title="Bunraku">Bunraku</a>-style puppet of this design which was operated on-set as an in-camera effect. Scenes using this approach were cut from the final release due to the limitations of chemical compositing techniques, making it exceedingly difficult to remove the puppeteers from the background plate, but can be seen in the "Assembly Cut" of the film.<a href="#cite_note-optical-45">[42]</a>

The Alien is portrayed by both Woodruff Jr. in a suit and a <a href="Rod_puppets" class="mw-redirect" title="Rod puppets">rod puppet</a> filmed against <a href="Chroma_key" title="Chroma key">bluescreen</a> and optically <a href="Compositing" title="Compositing">composited</a> into the live-action footage, with the rods removed by <a href="Rotoscoping" title="Rotoscoping">rotoscoping</a>. A mechanical alien head was also used for <a href="Close-up" title="Close-up">close-ups</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Visual_Effects-43">[40]</a> The suit adapted the design used in Aliens so Woodruff could walk on all fours.<a href="#cite_note-fright-14">[11]</a> Woodruff's head was contained in the neck of the suit, because the head was filled with <a href="Animatronics" title="Animatronics">animatronics</a> to move the mouth of the Alien.<a href="#cite_note-shock-15">[12]</a> Fincher suggested that a <a href="Whippet" title="Whippet">Whippet</a> be dressed in an alien costume for on-set <a href="Camera_coverage" title="Camera coverage">coverage</a> of the <a href="Quadrupedalism" title="Quadrupedalism">quadrupedal</a> alien, but the visual effects team was dissatisfied with the comical result and the idea was dropped in favor of the puppet.<a href="#cite_note-Visual_Effects-43">[40]</a>

The rod-puppet approach was chosen for the production rather than <a href="Stop_motion" title="Stop motion">stop-motion animation</a>, which did not provide the required smoothness to appear realistic. As a result, the rod-puppet allowed for a fast alien that could move across surfaces of any orientation and be shot from any angle.<a href="#cite_note-optical-45">[42]</a> This was particularly effective as it was able to accomplish movements not feasible by an actor in a suit. The <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">

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</style>1⁄3-scale puppet was 40 inches long and cast in foam rubber over a bicycle chain armature for flexibility.<a href="#cite_note-imagi-46">[43]</a> For moving camera shots, the on-set cameras were equipped with digital recorders to track, pan, tilt, and dolly values. The data output was then taken back to the studio and fed into the motion control cameras with the linear dimensions scaled down to match the puppet.<a href="#cite_note-optical-45">[42]</a>

To make syncing the puppet's actions with the live-action shots easier, the effects team developed an instant compositing system using <a href="LaserDisc" title="LaserDisc">LaserDisc</a>. This allowed takes to be quickly overlaid on the background plate so the crew could observe whether any spatial adjustments were required.<a href="#cite_note-optical-45">[42]</a>

Laine Liska was hired to lead a team of puppeteers in a new process dubbed "Mo-Motion" where the rod puppet would be simultaneously manipulated and filmed with a moving <a href="Motion_control_photography" title="Motion control photography">motion control camera</a>.<a href="#cite_note-optical-45">[42]</a> Depending on the complexity of the shot, the puppet was operated by 4–6 people.<a href="#cite_note-imagi-46">[43]</a> Sparse sets were created to provide freedom of motion for the puppeteers as well as large, solid surfaces for the puppet to act within a three dimensional space.<a href="#cite_note-optical-45">[42]</a>

The crew was pushed to make the movements of the Alien as quick as possible to the point where they were barely in control, and this led to, according to Edlund, "the occasional serendipitous action that made the alien have a character". The ease of this setup allowed the crew to film 60–70 takes of a single scene.<a href="#cite_note-optical-45">[42]</a>

Hoping to give the destroyed Bishop a more complex look that could not be accomplished by simple make-up, the final product was done entirely through animatronics, while a playback of Lance Henriksen's voice played to guide Sigourney Weaver.<a href="#cite_note-wreckage-12">[9]</a>

Scenes of the Emergency Escape Vehicle were shot with a 3.5-foot <a href="Scale_model" title="Scale model">miniature</a> against a blue-screen and composited onto large scale traditional <a href="Matte_painting" title="Matte painting">matte paintings</a> of the planet's surface. To make the clouds glow from within as the EEV entered the atmosphere, the painting's values were digitally reversed and animated frame by frame. The scene in which the EEV is moved by a crane-arm (also a miniature) was created by projecting a video of actors onto pieces of cardboard and then compositing them into the scene as silhouettes against the matte-painted background.<a href="#cite_note-optical-45">[42]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Music">Music</h2></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Alien_3_(soundtrack)" title="Alien 3 (soundtrack)">Alien 3 (soundtrack)</a></div>

The film's composer, <a href="Elliot_Goldenthal" title="Elliot Goldenthal">Elliot Goldenthal</a>, spent a year composing the score by working closely with Fincher to create music based primarily on the surroundings and atmosphere of the film itself. The score was recorded during the <a href="1992_Los_Angeles_riots" title="1992 Los Angeles riots">1992 Los Angeles riots</a>, which Goldenthal later claimed contributed to the score's disturbing nature.<a href="#cite_note-47">[44]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Release">Release</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Home_media">Home media</h3></div>

Alien 3 has been released in various <a href="Home_video" title="Home video">home video</a> formats and packages over the years. The first of these were on <a href="VHS" title="VHS">VHS</a> and <a href="LaserDisc" title="LaserDisc">LaserDisc</a>, and several subsequent VHS releases were sold both singly and as <a href="Box_set" title="Box set">boxed sets</a> throughout the 1990s. A VHS boxed set titled The Alien Trilogy containing Alien 3 along with Alien and Aliens was released in <a href="Alien_(creature_in_Alien_franchise)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien (creature in Alien franchise)">facehugger</a>-shaped carrying cases, and included some of the deleted scenes from the LaserDisc editions. In 1997, Alien 3 would premiere on a <a href="THX" title="THX">THX</a> certified widescreen VHS release, along with its predecessors.<a href="#cite_note-48">[45]</a> When Alien Resurrection premiered in theaters that year, another boxed set of the first three films was released titled The Alien Saga, which included a Making of Alien Resurrection tape. A few months later, this set was re-released with the Alien Resurrection film taking the place of the making-of video. In 1999, Alien 3 was released on <a href="DVD-Video" title="DVD-Video">DVD</a>, both singly and packaged with the other three Alien films as The Alien Legacy boxed set. This set was also released in a VHS version and would be the last VHS release of the film. In 2003, Alien 3 would be included in the 9-disc Alien Quadrilogy DVD set which contained two versions of the film (see below). The first three films were also later packaged as the Alien Triple Pack DVD set (this release was identical to the 1999 Alien Legacy set but excluding Alien Resurrection). Alien 3 was first released on <a href="Blu-ray" title="Blu-ray">Blu-ray</a> in 2010, as part of the 6-disc Alien Anthology boxed set which included all of the features from the Alien Quadrilogy DVD set and more. The film was also released as a single Blu-ray Disc in 2011. Fincher was the only director from the franchise who declined to participate in the box-set releases.<a href="#cite_note-Vox-49">[46]</a>

The bonus disc for Alien 3 in the 2003 Quadrilogy set includes a documentary of the film's production that lacks Fincher's participation, as clips where the director openly expresses anger and frustration with the studio were cut.<a href="#cite_note-Vox-49">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-50">[47]</a> The documentary was originally named Wreckage and Rape after one of the tracks of Goldenthal's soundtrack, but Fox renamed it simply The Making of Alien 3. These clips were restored for the 2010 Blu-ray release of the Anthology set, with the integral documentary having a slightly altered version of the intended name, Wreckage and Rage.<a href="#cite_note-51">[48]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Assembly_Cut">Assembly Cut</h3></div>

When Fox wanted to assemble a director's cut of Alien 3 for a home-video release, Fincher refused to participate. Instead, an extended cut called the "Assembly Cut" was created based on his editing room notes and released on the 2003 Alien Quadrilogy box set, overseen by producer <a href="Charles_de_Lauzirika" title="Charles de Lauzirika">Charles de Lauzirika</a>. This version of the film runs 144 minutes, and includes over 30 minutes of extended, alternate, and previously deleted scenes, as well as alternative key plot elements. One example of the plot differences is that in the theatrical version, the Alien bursts out of a dog, while in the Assembly Cut the Alien bursts out of a dead ox. Another example is that in the theatrical version, Ripley and the inmates fail to trap the Alien in the toxic waste room, while in the Assembly Cut they succeed. Golic, the crazed prisoner who becomes fascinated with the Alien, then escapes from the infirmary, kills the prisoner standing guard, and lets the Alien loose at the expense of his own life. This fills the plot hole that was Golic's fate, as in the theatrical version he simply disappears from the film after Clemens's death in the infirmary. In addition to Golic, more of the minor characters' fates are revealed, filling more plot holes.<a href="#cite_note-Vox-49">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-denofgeek-52">[49]</a><a href="#cite_note-dvdverdict-53">[50]</a>

Unlike the 2003 DVD release, in the 2010 Blu-ray version the additional footage went through post-production, receiving <a href="Color_correction" title="Color correction">color correction</a> and sound mixing to match the rest of the film, which included bringing back some cast members to re-record dialogue.<a href="#cite_note-54">[51]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Box_office">Box office</h3></div>

Alien 3 was released in the United States on May 22, 1992. The film debuted at number two of the box office, behind <a href="Lethal_Weapon_3" title="Lethal Weapon 3">Lethal Weapon 3</a>, with a <a href="Memorial_Day" title="Memorial Day">Memorial Day</a> weekend gross of $23.1 million.<a href="#cite_note-55">[52]</a> It screened in 2,227 theaters, for an average gross of $8,733 per theater.<a href="#cite_note-Mojo-2">[2]</a> The film was considered a disappointment in the United States and Canada with a total of $55.5 million, although, according to <a href="Box_Office_Mojo" title="Box Office Mojo">Box Office Mojo</a>, it grossed $104.3 million internationally<a href="#cite_note-56">[53]</a> for a total of $159.8 million. It outgrossed the original theatrical run of Alien, and had the 28th-highest domestic gross in 1992.<a href="#cite_note-Mojo-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-57">[54]</a> In October 1992, Fox claimed it was the highest-grossing of the franchise, with a worldwide gross of $175 million.<a href="#cite_note-Foxclaim-5">[5]</a> By the end of 1992, <a href="Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a> reported its worldwide gross at $180 million.<a href="#cite_note-vardec92-6">[6]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical_response">Critical response</h3></div>

Review aggregation website <a href="Rotten_Tomatoes" title="Rotten Tomatoes">Rotten Tomatoes</a> gives Alien 3 an approval rating of 44% from 125 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Alien3 takes admirable risks with franchise mythology, but far too few pay off in a thinly scripted sequel whose stylish visuals aren't enough to enliven a lack of genuine thrills."<a href="#cite_note-Rotten-59">[56]</a> <a href="Metacritic" title="Metacritic">Metacritic</a> assigned a weighted average score of 59 out of 100 based on 20 critics, signifying "mixed or average" reviews.<a href="#cite_note-MC-60">[57]</a> Audiences polled by <a href="CinemaScore" title="CinemaScore">CinemaScore</a> gave the film an average grade of "C" on an A+ to F scale.<a href="#cite_note-CinemaScore-61">[58]</a>

<a href="Gene_Siskel" title="Gene Siskel">Gene Siskel</a> and <a href="Roger_Ebert" title="Roger Ebert">Roger Ebert</a> gave the film two thumbs down on their show <a href="At_the_Movies_(1986_TV_program)" title="At the Movies (1986 TV program)">At The Movies</a>, feeling it was repetitious. They criticized the drawn-out chase scenes near the end as well as the lack of suspenseful action, though they praised the art direction and Weaver's performance, with Ebert calling it "probably the best-looking bad movie I've seen in a while".<a href="#cite_note-Ebert-62">[59]</a> In his review of <a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a>, Ebert later wrote "I lost interest [in Alien 3], when I realized that the aliens could at all times outrun and outleap the humans, so all the chase scenes were contrivances."<a href="#cite_note-63">[60]</a>

A number of cast and crew associated with the series, including actor <a href="Michael_Biehn" title="Michael Biehn">Michael Biehn</a>, director <a href="James_Cameron" title="James Cameron">James Cameron</a>, and novelist <a href="Alan_Dean_Foster" title="Alan Dean Foster">Alan Dean Foster</a>, expressed their frustration and disappointment with the film's story. Cameron regarded the decision to kill off the characters of Bishop, Newt, and Hicks as a "slap in the face" to him and to fans of the previous film. He eventually blamed 20th Century Fox for the film, saying that Fincher got handed "a big mess on a plate". Upon learning of Hicks's demise, Biehn demanded and received almost as much money for the use of his likeness in the EEV Crash Report sequence that appears in the theatrical cut as he had been paid for his entire role in Aliens.<a href="#cite_note-64">[61]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-reject-66">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-RemarEmpire-19">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-THRBiehn-20">[17]</a>

Fincher has since disowned the film. He told <a href="The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a> in 2009, "No one hated it more than me; to this day, no one hates it more than me."<a href="#cite_note-disown-58">[55]</a> He also blamed the producers for not putting trust in him.<a href="#cite_note-67">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-Vox-49">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-68">[65]</a> While Weaver has stood by the final film and expressed that she "loved working with" Fincher, she heavily criticized the treatment of him by 20th Century Fox, stating; "That was a transition moment when studios stopped being about 'let's make great films' and started being about 'let's not lose money.' They had the great idea to put David Fincher aboard for his first film, but then not to support the guy was very idiotic."<a href="#cite_note-IndieWire-69">[66]</a> Charles Dance also stood by the film, considering it better than its predecessor, and also praised Fincher's direction: "I remember walking on this huge set at Pinewood Studios and Fincher comes up and fires off his shot list for the day. Here's this guy young enough to be my son who knew all the crew's jobs, all the shots he wanted, and where he was going to make the cuts in the film, and I thought, 'My God, this guy is going to go far.'"<a href="#cite_note-70">[67]</a>

Several critics have regarded the Assembly Cut as superior to the theatrical release.<a href="#cite_note-denofgeek-52">[49]</a><a href="#cite_note-dvdverdict-53">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-Vox-49">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[68]</a> Journalist Nick Schager called it a "fascinating, often fantastic" film, its additional scenes a "disdainful critique of religion".<a href="#cite_note-72">[69]</a> Critic Tim Brayton remarked it "feels much fleeter and more driven even though it's a solid 30 minutes longer".<a href="#cite_note-73">[70]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Accolades">Accolades</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="List_of_accolades_received_by_the_Alien_film_series" title="List of accolades received by the Alien film series">List of accolades received by the Alien film series</a></div>

<th width="20%">Award

</th>

<th width="40%">Category

</th>

<th width="30%">Recipients

</th>

<th width="10%">Result

</th>

</th></tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards">Academy Awards</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Academy_Award_for_Best_Visual_Effects" title="Academy Award for Best Visual Effects">Best Visual Effects</a>

</td>

<td rowspan="2"><a href="Richard_Edlund" title="Richard Edlund">Richard Edlund</a>, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., and <a href="George_Gibbs_(special_effects_artist)" title="George Gibbs (special effects artist)">George Gibbs</a>

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="British_Academy_Film_Awards" title="British Academy Film Awards">British Academy Film Awards</a>

</td>

<td><a href="BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Special_Visual_Effects" title="BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects">Best Special Effects</a>

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td rowspan="3"><a href="Fangoria_Chainsaw_Awards" title="Fangoria Chainsaw Awards">Fangoria Chainsaw Awards</a>

</td>

<td>Best Studio/Big-Budget Film

</td>

<td>Alien 3

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="Fangoria_Chainsaw_Award_for_Best_Actress" title="Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actress">Best Actress</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Sigourney_Weaver" title="Sigourney Weaver">Sigourney Weaver</a>

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>Best Supporting Actor

</td>

<td><a href="Charles_S._Dutton" title="Charles S. Dutton">Charles S. Dutton</a>

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="Hugo_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="Hugo Awards">Hugo Awards</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Hugo_Award_for_Best_Dramatic_Presentation" title="Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation">Best Dramatic Presentation</a>

</td>

<td>Alien 3

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="Motion_Picture_Sound_Editors#Golden_Reel_Awards" title="Motion Picture Sound Editors">Golden Reel Awards</a>

</td>

<td>Best Sound Editing

</td>

<td>Alien 3

</td>

<td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="MTV_Movie_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="MTV Movie Awards">MTV Movie Awards</a>

</td>

<td><a href="MTV_Movie_Award_for_Best_Action_Sequence" title="MTV Movie Award for Best Action Sequence">Best Action Sequence</a>

</td>

<td>Aliens chase through a tunnel

</td>

<td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td rowspan="7"><a href="Saturn_Awards" title="Saturn Awards">Saturn Awards</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Saturn_Award_for_Best_Science_Fiction_Film" title="Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film">Best Science Fiction Film</a>

</td>

<td>Alien 3

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="Saturn_Award_for_Best_Actress" title="Saturn Award for Best Actress">Best Actress</a>

</td>

<td>Sigourney Weaver

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="Saturn_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor" title="Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor">Best Supporting Actor</a>

</td>

<td>Charles S. Dutton

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="Saturn_Award_for_Best_Direction" class="mw-redirect" title="Saturn Award for Best Direction">Best Director</a>

</td>

<td><a href="David_Fincher" title="David Fincher">David Fincher</a>

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="Saturn_Award_for_Best_Writing" title="Saturn Award for Best Writing">Best Writing</a>

</td>

<td><a href="David_Giler" title="David Giler">David Giler</a>, <a href="Walter_Hill_(filmmaker)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Hill (filmmaker)">Walter Hill</a>, and Larry Ferguson

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="Saturn_Award_for_Best_Costume" class="mw-redirect" title="Saturn Award for Best Costume">Best Costume</a>

</td>

<td>Rob Ringwood and David Perry

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="Saturn_Award_for_Best_Special_Effects" title="Saturn Award for Best Special Effects">Best Special Effects</a>

</td>

<td>Richard Edlund, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., and George Gibbs

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td></tr></tbody></table>

The film's visual effects were nominated for an <a href="65th_Academy_Awards" title="65th Academy Awards">Academy Award</a>, losing to <a href="Death_Becomes_Her" title="Death Becomes Her">Death Becomes Her</a>, and for a <a href="BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Special_Visual_Effects" title="BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects">BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects</a>.<a href="#cite_note-AAAlien3-74">[71]</a><a href="#cite_note-BAFTAAlien3-75">[72]</a> The film was also nominated for seven <a href="Saturn_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Saturn Award">Saturn Awards</a>, a <a href="Hugo_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="Hugo Awards">Hugo Award</a> and won a <a href="MTV_Movie_Award_for_Best_Action_Sequence" title="MTV Movie Award for Best Action Sequence">MTV Movie Award for Best Action Sequence</a>.<a href="#cite_note-SAAlien3-78">[75]</a><a href="#cite_note-HugoAlien3-76">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-MTVAlien3-77">[74]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_media">Other media</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novelization">Novelization</h3></div>

A <a href="Novelization" title="Novelization">novelization</a> of the film was authored by <a href="Alan_Dean_Foster" title="Alan Dean Foster">Alan Dean Foster</a>, writer of the novelizations of Alien and Aliens. Foster's adaptation includes many scenes that were cut from the final film, some of which later reappeared in the "Assembly Cut". Foster wanted his adaptation to differ from the film's script, which he disliked, but Walter Hill declared he should not alter the storyline. Foster later commented: "So out went my carefully constructed motivations for all the principal prisoners, my preserving the life of Newt (her killing in the film is an obscenity), and much else. Embittered by this experience, that's why I turned down <a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a>."<a href="#cite_note-79">[76]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comic_books">Comic books</h3></div>

<a href="Dark_Horse_Comics" title="Dark Horse Comics">Dark Horse Comics</a> also released a three-issue mini series.<a href="#cite_note-80">[77]</a> Created by writer <a href="Steven_Grant" title="Steven Grant">Steven Grant</a> and artist Christopher Taylor, the comic was a faithful adaption, with only a few deviations.<a href="#cite_note-81">[78]</a> One such deviation is that Ripley and the convicts succeed in capturing the Xenomorph in the waste-tank, only for a deranged prisoner named Golic to release it afterward. Later, when they believe they have destroyed the Alien, Ripley begs Dillon to kill her, but he can't bring himself to do it. The Xenomorph suddenly appears, and tosses Dillon into the smelting furnace.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_games">Video games</h3></div>

A <a href="Alien_3_(video_game)" title="Alien 3 (video game)">video game of the same name</a> was developed by <a href="Probe_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="Probe Entertainment">Probe Entertainment</a>, and released for multiple formats by <a href="Acclaim_Entertainment" title="Acclaim Entertainment">Acclaim</a>, <a href="LJN" title="LJN">LJN</a> and <a href="Virgin_Interactive" class="mw-redirect" title="Virgin Interactive">Virgin Games</a>, including <a href="Amiga" title="Amiga">Amiga</a>, <a href="Commodore_64" title="Commodore 64">Commodore 64</a>, <a href="Nintendo_Entertainment_System" title="Nintendo Entertainment System">Nintendo Entertainment System</a>, <a href="Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System" title="Super Nintendo Entertainment System">Super NES</a>, <a href="Sega_Genesis" title="Sega Genesis">Mega Drive/Genesis</a> and <a href="Master_System" title="Master System">Master System</a>. Rather than being a faithful adaptation of the film, it took the form of a basic platform action game where the player controlled Ripley using the weapons from the film Aliens in a green-dark ambient environment.<a href="#cite_note-82">[79]</a> The <a href="Game_Boy" title="Game Boy">Game Boy</a> version, developed by <a href="Bits_Studios" title="Bits Studios">Bits Studios</a>, was different from the console game, being a top-down adventure game. <a href="Sega" title="Sega">Sega</a> also developed an arcade <a href="Shoot_'em_up" title="Shoot 'em up">rail shooter</a> loosely based on the film's events, <a href="Alien_3%3A_The_Gun" title="Alien 3: The Gun">Alien 3: The Gun</a>, which was released in 1993.<a href="#cite_note-AGR-83">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-AGO-84">[81]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3></div>

An animated series titled Operation: Aliens was conceived by <a href="Kenner_Products" title="Kenner Products">Kenner Toys</a> and Fox to coincide with the release of Alien 3 but was ultimately abandoned. Animation on the series was to be carried out by the Korean animation studio <a href="AKOM" title="AKOM">AKOM</a>, but the series was scrapped for fears it would run afoul of the <a href="Regulations_on_children's_television_programming_in_the_United_States" title="Regulations on children's television programming in the United States">Children's Television Act</a> and because Fox, intending to produce further Alien films, was concerned an animated series for children would dilute the franchise's appeal to the older demographic.<a href="#cite_note-85">[82]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="William_Gibson's_Alien_3">William Gibson's Alien 3</h3></div>

In 2018–19, Dark Horse released William Gibson's Alien 3, a five-part comic adaptation of Gibson's unproduced version of the screenplay, illustrated and adapted by Johnnie Christmas, colored by Tamra Bonvillain.<a href="#cite_note-staley-26">[23]</a>

As part of Alien's 40th anniversary, on May 30, 2019, <a href="Audible_(store)" class="mw-redirect" title="Audible (store)">Audible</a> released an <a href="Audio_drama" class="mw-redirect" title="Audio drama">audio drama</a> of Gibson's script, adapted by <a href="Dirk_Maggs" title="Dirk Maggs">Dirk Maggs</a>, and with Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen reprising their roles.<a href="#cite_note-86">[83]</a> The production had music by <a href="James_Hannigan" title="James Hannigan">James Hannigan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-starburst-27">[24]</a>

In 2021, <a href="Pat_Cadigan" title="Pat Cadigan">Pat Cadigan</a> published Alien3: The Unproduced First-draft Screenplay by William Gibson (Titan Books). This novel is based on Gibson's first draft, as opposed to the second draft used for the comic and audio drama adaptations.<a href="#cite_note-cadigan-28">[25]</a> The novel won the Scribe Award for Best Adapted Novel.<a href="#cite_note-87">[84]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sequel">Sequel</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a></div>

A sequel, Alien Resurrection, was released in 1997.<a href="#cite_note-AFI-88">[85]</a>

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<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a> The Alien species is defined as "Xenomorph" within the previous film <a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a>, and is later referred to as "Xenomorph" by Ripley when she is sending an email to Weyland-Yutani.

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<ul><li>Gallardo C., Ximena; Smith, C. Jason (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=k_H3vLIRECgC"></a><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=k_H3vLIRECgC">Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley</a>. Continuum. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-8264-1569-5</bdi></li>

<li>Murphy, Kathleen. "The Last Temptation of Sigourney Weaver". Film Comment, vol. 28, no. 4 (July–August 1992): pp. 17–20.</li>

<li>Speed, Louise. "Alien3: A Postmodern Encounter with the Abject". Arizona Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 1 (Spring 1998): pp. 125–151.</li>

<li>Syonan-Teo, Kobayashi (1998). "Why Sigourney is Jesus: Watching Alien3 [sic] in the Light of Se7ven". The Flyng Inkpot.</li>

<li>Taubin, Amy. "Invading Bodies: Aliens3 [sic] and the Trilogy". Sight and Sound (July–August 1992): pp. 8–10. Reprinted as: "The Alien Trilogy: From Feminism to AIDS"; pp. 93–100; in Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader (1993); Cook, Pam; Dodd, Philip (eds.). Philadelphia: Temple University Press.</li>

<li>Thomson, David. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://classic.esquire.com/article/1997/12/1/the-bitch-is-back">"The Bitch is Back"</a>. Esquire (December 1997): pp. 56–57.</li>

<li>Vaughn, Thomas. "Voices of Sexual Distortion: Rape, Birth, and Self-annihilation Metaphors in the Alien Trilogy". The Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 81, no. 4 (November 1995): pp. 423–435.</li>

<li>Williams, Anne (1995). "Inner and Outer Spaces: The Alien Trilogy". Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic. University of Chicago Press.</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a> (1979)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a> (1986)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a> (1997)</li>

<li><a href="Prometheus_(2012_film)" title="Prometheus (2012 film)">Prometheus</a> (2012)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Covenant" title="Alien: Covenant">Alien: Covenant</a> (2017)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Romulus" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a> (2024)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Alien%3A_Isolation_%E2%80%93_The_Digital_Series" title="Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series">Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series</a> (2019)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Earth" title="Alien: Earth">Alien: Earth</a> (2025)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Soundtracks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Alien_(soundtrack)" title="Alien (soundtrack)">Alien</a></li>

<li><a href="Aliens_(soundtrack)" title="Aliens (soundtrack)">Aliens</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_3_(soundtrack)" title="Alien 3 (soundtrack)">Alien 3</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_Resurrection_(soundtrack)" title="Alien Resurrection (soundtrack)">Alien Resurrection</a></li>

<li><a href="Prometheus_(soundtrack)" title="Prometheus (soundtrack)">Prometheus</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Covenant_(soundtrack)" title="Alien: Covenant (soundtrack)">Alien: Covenant</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Romulus_(soundtrack)" title="Alien: Romulus (soundtrack)">Alien: Romulus</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Alien%3A_The_Illustrated_Story" title="Alien: The Illustrated Story">Alien: The Illustrated Story</a> (1979)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Superman/Aliens" title="Superman/Aliens">Superman/Aliens</a> (1995, 2002)</li>

<li><a href="Batman/Aliens" title="Batman/Aliens">Batman/Aliens</a> (1997, 2002–2003)</li>

<li><a href="WildC.A.T.s/Aliens" title="WildC.A.T.s/Aliens">WildC.A.T.s/Aliens</a> (1998)</li>

<li><a href="Green_Lantern_Versus_Aliens" title="Green Lantern Versus Aliens">Green Lantern Versus Aliens</a> (2000)</li>

<li><a href="Judge_Dredd_versus_Aliens%3A_Incubus" title="Judge Dredd versus Aliens: Incubus">Judge Dredd versus Aliens: Incubus</a> (2002–2003)</li>

<li><a href="Fire_and_Stone" title="Fire and Stone">Fire and Stone</a> (2014–2015)</li></ul>

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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_Alien_(franchise)_novels" title="List of Alien (franchise) novels">Novels</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Aliens%3A_Earth_Hive" title="Aliens: Earth Hive">Aliens: Earth Hive</a> (1992)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_Nightmare_Asylum" class="mw-redirect" title="Aliens: Nightmare Asylum">Aliens: Nightmare Asylum</a> (1993)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_The_Female_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Aliens: The Female War">Aliens: The Female War</a> (1993)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Out_of_the_Shadows" title="Alien: Out of the Shadows">Alien: Out of the Shadows</a> (2014)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_Phalanx" title="Aliens: Phalanx">Aliens: Phalanx</a> (2020)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Uncivil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien: Uncivil War">Alien: Uncivil War</a> (2024)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_Alien%2C_Predator%2C_and_Alien_vs._Predator_games" title="List of Alien, Predator, and Alien vs. Predator games">Games</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Video</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Alien_(1982_video_game)" title="Alien (1982 video game)">Alien</a> (1982)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_(1984_video_game)" title="Alien (1984 video game)">Alien</a> (1984)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_The_Computer_Game_(US_Version)" title="Aliens: The Computer Game (US Version)">Aliens: The Computer Game</a> (Activision)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_The_Computer_Game_(UK_Version)" title="Aliens: The Computer Game (UK Version)">Aliens: The Computer Game</a> (Software Studios)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_(1990_video_game)" title="Aliens (1990 video game)">Aliens</a> (1990)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_3_(video_game)" title="Alien 3 (video game)">Alien 3</a> (1992)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_3%3A_The_Gun" title="Alien 3: The Gun">Alien 3: The Gun</a> (1993)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_A_Comic_Book_Adventure" title="Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure">Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure</a> (1995)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_Trilogy" title="Alien Trilogy">Alien Trilogy</a> (1996)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_Online" title="Aliens Online">Aliens Online</a> (1998)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_Resurrection_(video_game)" title="Alien Resurrection (video game)">Alien Resurrection</a> (2000)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_Thanatos_Encounter" title="Aliens: Thanatos Encounter">Aliens: Thanatos Encounter</a> (2001)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_Infestation" title="Aliens Infestation">Aliens Infestation</a> (2011)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_Colonial_Marines" title="Aliens: Colonial Marines">Aliens: Colonial Marines</a> (2013)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Isolation" title="Alien: Isolation">Alien: Isolation</a> (2014)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_Fireteam_Elite" title="Aliens: Fireteam Elite">Aliens: Fireteam Elite</a> (2021)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_Dark_Descent" title="Aliens: Dark Descent">Aliens: Dark Descent</a> (2023)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Rogue_Incursion" title="Alien: Rogue Incursion">Alien: Rogue Incursion</a> (2024)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Aliens_the_Board_Game" title="Aliens the Board Game">Aliens the Board Game</a> (1989)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_Adventure_Game" title="Aliens Adventure Game">Aliens Adventure Game</a> (1991)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_The_Roleplaying_Game" title="Alien: The Roleplaying Game">Alien: The Roleplaying Game</a> (2019)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Alien_3_(podcast)" title="Alien 3 (podcast)">Alien 3</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Universe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Characters51" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_Alien_(franchise)_characters" title="List of Alien (franchise) characters">Characters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Humans</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Ellen_Ripley" title="Ellen Ripley">Ellen Ripley</a></li>

<li><a href="Dwayne_Hicks" title="Dwayne Hicks">Dwayne Hicks</a></li>

<li><a href="Hudson_(Aliens)" title="Hudson (Aliens)">Hudson</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Androids</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Bishop_(Aliens)" title="Bishop (Aliens)">Bishop</a></li>

<li><a href="David_8" title="David 8">David 8</a></li>

<li><a href="Walter_One" title="Walter One">Walter One</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Xenomorph" title="Xenomorph">Xenomorph</a></li>

<li><a href="Jones_(fictional_cat)" title="Jones (fictional cat)">Jones</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="List_of_accolades_received_by_the_Alien_film_series" title="List of accolades received by the Alien film series">Accolades for the film series</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_War" title="Alien War">Alien War</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_vs._Predator" title="Alien vs. Predator">Alien vs. Predator franchise</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_Alien_vs._Predator_characters" title="List of Alien vs. Predator characters">characters</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Ripley_(crater)" title="Ripley (crater)">Ripley (crater)</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_2%3A_On_Earth" title="Alien 2: On Earth">Alien 2: On Earth</a></li>

<li><a href="Memory%3A_The_Origins_of_Alien" title="Memory: The Origins of Alien">Memory: The Origins of Alien</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_on_Stage" title="Alien on Stage">Alien on Stage</a></li>

<li><a href="Galaxy_of_Terror" title="Galaxy of Terror">Galaxy of Terror</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li> Category</li></ul>

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<div class="navbox-styles"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="David_Fincher266" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="David_Fincher266" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="David_Fincher" title="David Fincher">David Fincher</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_David_Fincher" title="List of awards and nominations received by David Fincher">Awards and nominations</a></li>

<li><a href="David_Fincher_bibliography" title="David Fincher bibliography">Bibliography</a></li>

<li><a href="David_Fincher_filmography" title="David Fincher filmography">Filmography</a></li>

<li><a href="David_Fincher's_unrealized_projects" title="David Fincher's unrealized projects">Unrealized projects</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Seven_(1995_film)" title="Seven (1995 film)">Seven</a> (1995)</li>

<li><a href="Fight_Club" title="Fight Club">Fight Club</a> (1999)</li>

<li><a href="Panic_Room" title="Panic Room">Panic Room</a> (2002)</li>

<li><a href="Zodiac_(film)" title="Zodiac (film)">Zodiac</a> (2007)</li>

<li><a href="The_Curious_Case_of_Benjamin_Button_(film)" title="The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)">The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</a> (2008)</li>

<li><a href="The_Social_Network" title="The Social Network">The Social Network</a> (2010)</li>

<li><a href="The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo_(2011_film)" title="The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)">The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</a> (2011)</li>

<li><a href="The_Killer_(2023_film)" title="The Killer (2023 film)">The Killer</a> (2023)</li>

<li><a href="The_Adventures_of_Cliff_Booth" title="The Adventures of Cliff Booth">The Adventures of Cliff Booth</a> (TBA)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Jack_Fincher_(screenwriter)" title="Jack Fincher (screenwriter)">Jack Fincher</a> (father)</li>

<li><a href="Ce%C3%A1n_Chaffin" title="Ceán Chaffin">Ceán Chaffin</a> (wife)</li></ul>

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<div class="navbox-styles"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="David_Giler47" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="David_Giler47" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="David_Giler" title="David Giler">David Giler</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Written and directed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="The_Black_Bird" title="The Black Bird">The Black Bird</a> (1975)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Written only</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Myra_Breckinridge_(film)" title="Myra Breckinridge (film)">Myra Breckinridge</a> (1970)</li>

<li><a href="The_Parallax_View" title="The Parallax View">The Parallax View</a> (1974)</li>

<li><a href="Southern_Comfort_(1981_film)" title="Southern Comfort (1981 film)">Southern Comfort</a> (1981)</li>

<li><a href="The_Money_Pit" title="The Money Pit">The Money Pit</a> (1986)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a> (1986)</li>

<li><a href="Undisputed_(film)" title="Undisputed (film)">Undisputed</a> (2002)</li></ul>

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