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Predatorentries) in one of themost influential sci-fi franchisesin entertainment history.
Some of these were just ideas, but others got remarkably close to chestbursting from the Hollywood blockbuster machine.
Here are eight of the most interesting failed attempts at expanding the universe spawned from Ridley ScottsAlien.
Gibsons script is widely available online and was even adapted into abookand a five-part Dark Horse comics series.
A stalemate followed and Gibson left,citingfoot dragging on the producers part.
In his absence, Harlin suggested screenwriter Eric Red (Near Dark) to handle the revisions.
Even Red would eventually call his script a piece of junk.
It was also deemed unfilmable.
They had it written.
Joss Whedon wrote it.
What might have been?
Weaver hated it, and she had final approval.
Around the same time, Scott toldThe Chicago Sun-Timesthat he was seriously mulling it over.
While all that mulling eventually led to Scotts return to the franchise withPrometheus, Cameron never came back.
The way he tells it, when he discovered that 20th Century Fox was moving forward withAlien vs.
Predator, he jumped ship.
To me, that wasFrankenstein Meets Werewolf, he told AICN.
It was Universal just taking their assets and starting to play them off against each other.
Cameron revealed in that same interview that he actually liked the spin-offs once he got around to seeing them.
Scott, on the other hand,toldEmpirewhile promotingPrometheusthat hed still never seen the spin-offs.
Of course, it almost didnt.
Weaver was on board.
She toldComing Soon, He kept sending me these brilliant designs and ideas and everything.
Well see what happens.
She wasnt alone in her enthusiasm.
Im working on that, he told reporters who asked about Blomkamps version during a red carpet.
Alas, the final flicker of hope for this movie went out when Fox and Disney merged.
Walter Hill, who produced the original films,delivereda 50-page treatment to Sigourney Weaver in the late 2010s.
One wonders if Hill himself might have helmed the comeback venture.
What killed this potential return of people who understoodAlienas well as anyone?
The merger between Disney and Fox in 2022reportedlyended the Hill version as the studios pivoted toRomulus.
So Hills treatment forAlien 5may not stay dead forever.
Maybe it could at least get a comic book like Gibsons?
Fans would love to read it.
Ridley Scotts Unfinished Trilogy
Is Ridley done with this world?
Might we get a sequel toAlien: Covenanttoo?
Scottsaidbefore that films release that he had plans for two more prequels … and weve only seen one.
But, again, the Disney-Fox merger seems to have stopped all traction on this series.
At least for now.
After all, these aliens are hard to kill.
