Alien 3 cocoons

leading from Alien 3Cinefex: Borrowing from a sequence which had been cut from the original Alien, Fincher early one intended to feature the discovery of partially-devoured victims being transformed into alien spores through a metamorphical cocooning process. This would have provided some rationale for the creature's disturbingly pseudo-intelligent malevolence. Fincher's decision to incorporate the James Cameron concept of an egg laying matriarch,...

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Renny Harlin Alien 3

leading from Alien 3Post Nightmare on Elm Street 4Renny Harlon was only 28 and he had just made Nightmare on Elm Street 4 which got a very good critical reception and a huge box office reception and then all of a sudden the day after that came out, he got a call from Steven Spielberg and they met up to start developing something together which unfortunately didn''t out. He was getting calls from everybody else in Hollywood. He was a huge fan of Ridley...

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Giger's Alien 3 beast version 1

David Fincher wanted an Alien that was faster and more graceful, he also wanted it to look like a Jaguar or a Puma, taking the idea of a clip he directed for Madonna. Giger welcomed the opportunity to make improvements to his original design. He had a go at drawing the creature that Fincher wanted, but the resulting beast Fincher thought looked too much like a lion, in the notes Giger wrote that it may be too fat, but Fincher decided to keep...

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ADI's ALien 3 dog alien

leading from Alien 3continuing to collate and develop articlea) Hopes for a new directionEarly on in the design process, Gillis and Woodruff felt that they should take the alien in a different direction. Their idea was that the creature was constantly mutating to adapt to whatever the environment,  and it gave them a reason to have an alien that was considerably different from the adult aliens in either Alien or Aliens. But , ultimately, David Fincher decided that he wanted to remin with what have been seen in the first filmb) Tom Woodruff's...

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