It's no secret that 20th Century Fox struggled to get Alien 3 off the ground in 1992. Turning down script after script -- including one from the film's director David Fincher -- it's obvious now that the studio probably had no idea what kind of movie that it wanted to make.

Fincher himself had this to say of the production, over 10 years later: "I had to work on it for two years, got fired off it three times and I had to fight for every single thing. No one hated it more than me; to this day, no one hates it more than me."Yikes. On a lighter note, among those rejected screenplays was sci-fi novelist William Gibson's, which was recently posted online via the writer's Twitter account . Overall, it sounds like he came away from the experience feeling quite positive, even though his script was never used. (Although, he was paid "quite handsomely" for his draft.)Gibson's version of Alien 3 was very different from the final film. Most notably, Ripley is barely featured in the script at all. That's because, initially, Sigourney Weaver was not set to return and the studio requested that she not be included in the main story.You can read Gibson's full Alien 3 screenplay here Via Movies.com

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