Sep 20 2024 95 mins 1
Making a 3rd Alien film seemed to be an inevitability. Following the success of Hames Cameron’s Aliens, 20th Century Fox knew it had a flat out franchise on their hands, and wanted to capitalize on that fact quicker than before. But, seeming as the previous film had a seven year ago gap, you’d think it’d be an easy feat to accomplish.
You would be wrong. As not only was Alien 3 an even bigger chore to make. It was also one of the most contentious and difficult film shoots of all time. New feature director David Fincher was given new script pages to shoot every day, with scenes that were prepared almost all the previous day being completely scrapped. Fights amongst the cast, and a director who didn’t know where or what his next scene would be were just two of the obstacles in an Alien 3 that was, to put it lightly, a difficult shoot.
Join Garrett, Matt, and Adam as they shift through the huge list of scripts and failed attempts at marketing, and find out if Fincher’s distancing of himself from the finished product really as warranted as he’d make it out to be in the 32 years since.
You would be wrong. As not only was Alien 3 an even bigger chore to make. It was also one of the most contentious and difficult film shoots of all time. New feature director David Fincher was given new script pages to shoot every day, with scenes that were prepared almost all the previous day being completely scrapped. Fights amongst the cast, and a director who didn’t know where or what his next scene would be were just two of the obstacles in an Alien 3 that was, to put it lightly, a difficult shoot.
Join Garrett, Matt, and Adam as they shift through the huge list of scripts and failed attempts at marketing, and find out if Fincher’s distancing of himself from the finished product really as warranted as he’d make it out to be in the 32 years since.
