The Meat Locker - Alien 3's Deleted Hive Scene
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- Though ultimately cut from the theatrical release of Alien, the first film infamously had a deleted nest sequence in which Ripley discovered both Brett and Dallas glued to the wall and in the midst of being transformed into eggs.
Though this would eventually be restored in the 2003 “Director’s Cut” of Alien. It wasn’t until Aliens release in 1986 that we saw an Alien hive - or nest - up on the big screen for the first time.
Alien hives would reappear in Alien Resurrection (though not following Aliens’ aesthetic) and both Alien vs. Predator films, but would be completely absent from Alien 3. However, that wasn’t always the case.
In this video we explore the various hive scenes that were scripted for Alien 3, and construction on the cocoons was started, but were ultimately removed.
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In 2021 Alien vs. Predator Galaxy had the chance to sit down with Alec and Tom to discuss their work on the entire series and we made sure to ask them about Alien 3’s cocoons where Alec told us that the “thinking shell” was entirely made up in an effort to get a rise out of David Fincher and no cocoons were completed!
“Tom totally made up the Fincher ‘thinking shell’ thing. There was a period there where we were having such a great time with David Fincher because it was fun. We’re all about the same age and we thought it would be funny if we made stuff up. Where we did interviews and then he would read it later and go “what the hell?” So Tom had a few good ones.”
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We need more cocoon and hive scenes. They add more depth to the Xenomorphs beyond just killing people.
I believe there was supposed to be more hived up scenery in Alien Resurrection too. There certainly was in the novelization, but I'm not sure about earlier drafts of the script.
I would have loved to see Fincher's own idea without the fuckup interventions by the studio.
What was his original ideas please?
@@supertruthfortyninesesrch for chtis stuckmann's review of this movie.
Every cocoon scene gets deleted - Dallas, Burke, Alien 3.
Well, in Aliens they did keep the lady cocooned when the Marines first enter the facility.
Im gonna put you in a cocoon.
It would make sense that the runner alien would start forming a hive if it knew a queen embryo was inside ripley
Arguably, that was what the xenomorph did in the deleted scene in Alien. There are some novels and comics that have worked from the concept that xenomorphs in isolation would begin creating a hive and either morph a queen egg or morph into a queen themselves. The movies seems to have established that queens come from unique eggs with dedicated queen facehuggers. Maybe Brett was being morphed into a queen egg, and that a queen facehugger was meant to impregnate Dallas.
@@havareriksen1004 good shout. I guess when a xenomorph is alone it will start making a hive and either evolve into a queen or form a queen egg :)
Yeah keeping with the bug theme that would make a lot of sense cause if a queen bee dies another drone will become a queen or they will birth one
The extended version of Alien 3 is the ONLY version worth watching. I always tell someone if they haven't seen the movie to stay away from the original release. They would only be disappointed.
Man, it sounds like Dillon goes out like a boss either way.
I personally think Alien 3 is a totally underrated film. Fans are just upset cause Hicks and Newt die. Life isn't fair in the alien-verse.
Hicks being alive wouldn't hurt the movie, but that litte girl was useless even in the previous movie. It was only natural to kill her off.
Alien 3 - the masterpiece ruined by suits.
Still owns though tbf
I wouldn't call it a "masterpiece" but it's better than people gave it credit for years.
Kind of blows it in the first two minutes. I agree it continues to have flaws throughout.
A scuffed masterpiece is still a marvel. The director's cut beats Aliens as my second favorite of the films.
@@zippymufo9765 I don't know if it would have been a masterpiece. But it could have been a potentially better if it hadn't been micromanaged & actually had a script from the start. Before even set production began.
It's one thing to make alterations to the script but only having 3 or 4 concept scripts, take elements of all of them & write it as you go along & have to get permission everyday to do a scene is another.
Having watched both the assembly & theatrical cut it had a lot more potential than we see
Forever a shame that the best parts of Alien 3 are the parts that got cut away, this would have been amazing and a great piece of world-building in the franchise
I would have LOVED to see the meat locker scene in Alien3.
I don't think I'd like the scene as scripted, but I do miss the Alien actually just securing future hosts for the Queen.
It could have been interesting
I was born in 1992 and my Dad would let me watch all of the old classics including a lot of the horrors. I remember watching the 4 Alien films and I'll never forget the feeling I had watching Alien 3 after Aliens for the first time, expecting the continuation of the family created in Aliens only for the opening to dispatch Hicks and Newt. While I was disappointed about what had happened to my favourite characters it felt like the natural progression for the story. It was always Ripley Vs the Alien in a unflinchingly cruel and unfair world.
Alien 3 to me is just as good as Alien and Aliens, and the actual Xenomorph itself is one of the best put to screen with some of the most iconic moments for the creatures.
I’ve always stood by my opinion that “Alien 3” isn’t the best Alien film but hands down has the best actors and performances in the entire franchise.
Alien 3 is the better between it and Aliens and very nearly as good as Alien, if we're talking the special cuts of each film.
Alien 3 opener just blew my mind tonight 😅
The nest should have been included. The lone xeno slaughtering the prisoners for food just makes zero sense.
Thank you for explaining the hive in Alien3. Even though they omitted it in the final production, there still was the suggestion of a hive in the basement where Ripley sought the new xenomorph.
Great video! This would have been awesome in the actual film.
Alien 3 is a great film and this would have made it even better. The more info that comes out on this film the more I think it would have been the best in the series
You like this movie?
@@alecmerritt1821 no I love this film
I have actually grown to really enjoy the Assembly Cut of Alien 3. Sure it's not a masterpiece like the first two films but the restored version is not a bad movie at all. It's just that ANYTHING that followed such legendary movies as Alien and Aliens would seem a lot worse than it is in comparison. Add to that the fact that people were sour over Hicks and Newt dying off screen at the opening of the movie AND the oddly cut nature of the theatrical cut. All this adds to a terrible reception to a not so terrible movie, well the assembly cut at least which is what Fincher wanted to do before the studio forced changes apparently.
Watching the assembly cut today (I literally did watch it earlier lol) without comparing it to the first two films at every turn, I seriously don't understand anyone who still despises the movie even after rewatching the restored version with an objective mind unless they just CANNOT get over Hicks and Newt. Which would probably really upset me if I had seen the movies all as they came out in theaters but I didn't. I saw them all VERY young as a kid in the 90's and have continued to watch them all my life. I could see if you saw all these in the theater as they came out, growing very attached to them and then being really upset when they die the way they did. But I say to those that did have it that way, the series is so dark and depressing on purpose. You're supposed to identify with Ripley on how murderously destructive these creatures are and how they have decimated every aspect of her life. Killing Hicks and Newt instantly punches you in the gut when the movie starts and you just don't get why...much the same as Ripley feels.
I know I'm in the minority, but i actually really like Alien 3
I was born in 1992 and my Dad would let me watch all of the old classics including a lot of the horrors. I remember watching the 4 Alien films and I'll never forget the feeling I had watching Alien 3 after Aliens for the first time, expecting the continuation of the family created in Aliens only for the opening to dispatch Hicks and Newt. While I was disappointed about what had happened to my favourite characters it felt like the natural progression for the story. It was always Ripley Vs the Alien in a unflinchingly cruel and unfair world.
Alien 3 to me is just as good as Alien and Aliens, and the actual Xenomorph itself is one of the best put to screen with some of the most iconic moments for the creatures.
@DR Evil You legend! Thank you oh evil exhaulted one!
alien3 is a good closure film.
I've said this all along. Killing Hicks and Newt give you a heads up of how dark this film is about (and meant) to be.
Like I always say, it's a horror story, it's not Disney.
I really wish we could see the 3 hours version of Alien III they.. all of it.. restored so we see the story how it was originally intended before the studio (fox) started to interfere!! I know we have the special edition but that is a snippet of what was filmed and intended to be in this movie hey!!
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This additional story beat could have improved the film a little. It definitely would have been nice to get a glimpse of what the alien was doing with the prisoners that it took, even if we could have easily guessed.
Having just watched the assembly cut today, I found this to be very interesting. I did wonder why the xenomorph was killing so savagely in this film, now I know the directors vision was killing for food, all makes sense.
The problem with Alien 3 was that a lot of interesting moments were taken out , like this one. and what's left is a movie that just drones on.
I just watched Alien 3 and I think the harsh criticism is undeserved, I thought it was great. The wretched prison colony was a great setting, and the fanatical religious culture of the convicts was really unique, allowing opportunities for some really colorful performances. I think in tone it's more faithful to the first film. Thematically as well, it's concerned with how a tight-knit group of blue-collar people overcome a terror, and I'm tempted to read both as the proletarian struggle against the capitalist class, the Weyland corporation prioritizing profit over human life.
Anyways, a cool video, love the research
It did remind me of a Fritz Lang movie now that you mention it.
I would have love to have seen this hive in Alien 3 it sounds awesome
A great article, and so comprehensive. Keep up the good work. This version of the hive sounds like it would’ve been the most interesting, but I love alien 3 just the way it is.
Alien 3 gets a lot better over time as more crap movies come out but there are a lot of small scenes like these ones that could have made it a lot better.
Such a great underrated movie but my expectations of it's quality were undercut soon after the opening when the EEV's seaweed wasn't blowing with the hurricane winds. So flawed, and the Alien being trapped in a waste containment chamber raises so many "what if's".
Thanks for this perfectly narrated video. I adore this franchise
I don't think I was ever aware of this scene.
It's one of those little things that never got too much focus. It came back to the forefront of my mind when I was researching for CdL's episode and figured, why not?!
It shows that there was soooo much to do with Alien 3 but also too many fingers in the pie and no true sense of direction after. I don't think Fincher was thinking in those cocoons, he was just looking for a moment to get away from it all :p
These are so well narrated and edited
Thanks, Marlow! Very much appreciated! :)
@@AlienvsPredatorGalaxy you have a nice voice Hicks. It's sort of relaxing.
@@mick61466 Never thought so myself, but thanks! I still always feel self-conscious doing these lol
This is very cool! In the corebook for the Alien Role Playing Game they hint at some form of cocooning and eggmorphing having taken place but I had no idea that was an original cut idea from Alien 3. I know in my campaign I had them revisit Fury. It is fascinating how so many versions of the expanded media want to revisit this planet specifically. It IS a great horror section.
Not into the idea of the blue beam being something organic from the aliens... or Ripley immediately understanding it upon first sight.
But the "meat locker" concept is fun & dark.
There's one in the first Alien that Cain finds in the egg chamber, and says it seems to be reacting to his presence. So it wouldn't be to far outside of logic to deduce what it's purpose was.
And who put the egg on the Sulaco? The first 3 minutes of Alien 3 caused the movie to fail. How did an egg get on the Sulaco? Ripley would have searched every part of the ship before hibernating. These alien eggs are not small, and the Queen was only in the second drop ship and the hangar bay where everything not nailed down got blasted out the airlock. The Queen detached from her egg sac prior to getting on the Sulaco. Alien eggs only open when next to a host - why would the alien egg open up several rooms away from the hypersleep chamber?
So alien 3 could exist, no other reason. Why is this facehugger able to impregnate 2 hosts? In all the other films they can only impregnate one before dying.
In the canon they said the Alien Queen took one from the hive
@@emotionalsupportostrich2480 remember in the Alien 3 Assembled Cut, it is a royal Facehugger (larger than the average one) with the capacity to impregnate both a Queen and a drone (this one to help protect the Queen)
@@charlespuruncajas9663 very true I forgot about the assembled cut (which I love). However, the theatrical cut only shows a normal facehugger and hence contains the plot hole.
100 percent agree with you, it doesn’t make any sense.
Excellent video, fascinating content, some stuff in there I'd not seen or heard about before.
It might have been interesting to see the hive in Alien 3
I got to go behind the scenes at Alien War, when it was in London & they had some props from a sequence planned but never filmed for Alien 3.
There was several large Art Deco style sculptures of greyhounds, sitting on the hind legs; these were intended for a scene which was to be set in the library.
I can only guess that the library concept was left over from Vincent Ward’s version of the film.
I remember Alien War! That must of been about 25 years ago??
@@sonnyshow yeah, it was the mid 90s.
It was such a shame it didn’t last. A lot of the sets were cast from the original moulds that were recovered from a skip at Pinewood; also the cryo-tubes were original screen used props.
There was plans to add Med Lab, a larger egg chamber & a replica of the APC. But sadly these never materialised due to a flood that resulted in the attraction never reopening.
Some notable props they had were two of the sentry guns, Hudson’s armour, one of the flamethrowers, a Pulse Rifle, a Smart Gun, the legs from the torn in half Bishop & a 1:6 scale APC.
@@davidanderson1639 I only went once but loved it, must’ve only been about 12 or 13. I posed for a photo after with a pulse rife and remember it being really heavy, had no idea they were real props! Shame it had to close, would love to see it come back.
@@sonnyshow several of the guys who did the set dressing & props had worked on Aliens; I’m guessing they had the contacts to access the real things. Also this was before the likes of Props Store came on the scene & started buying up props etc & auctioning them off.
I'd love to see fincher and Ridley to make a joint alien horror film
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That would be amazing...😧👍
Ridley doesn't share
@@chrisg1772 That's why the franchise is where it is today. Smh
Fascinating. I adopted Giger's rejected proposal for Alien3 into my own Hive, but I declined to seek out the Dragon's company in our community and it's always welcome to hear much about her that I didn't know.
I remember a review from a friend of mine about alien three. I asked him how it was. He said it was 2 hours of people running down the hall screaming Fuuuuuck! when I finally just got around to seeing the film. I couldn't disagree with him. That film has so much potential. But it was stupid. At some point filmmakers need to realize that story and plot are what makes films great!
There’s a great reference to this in the Fury 161 section of the Alien RPG rulebook. Two of those cocoons are down there in the dark...waiting. A good set up by them to lead into Deep Black.
Thanks Peter, I'll check it out. It totally blanked my mind to check the RPGs.
What a shame, a big egg morphing chamber would have been awesome. It makes sense too, without egg morphing, a lone drone is screwed. It makes evolutionary sense that a drone can establish a hive.
I’d love for James Cameron to give this series another shot and retcon 4 and possibly 3 the extended cut of 3 is pretty good. I’d love to see a freaky sequence with the queen facehugger or worse like a king xeno
I LOVED Aliens vs Predators ll !! It's one of the best looking (for the time,) and FUN single players I've played. But where it REALLY shined was the mulit-player. That was GREAT! The look was fantastic and the play was FAST. The predators and the humans were great for different weapons, but the alien was great if you just wanted to jump around and kill. Overall a great game.
the queen alien makes more sense to justify ripley not getting kill by the alien in some point. but i have alway liked the idea of the xenomorphs turn victims into eggs
glad to sub your channel! huge Alien fan here! Curious as to whether or not Meridith Vickers in Prometheus was a Synthetic (Like David) or a real human being? always wondered that.
The next alien movie should be on Earth in the future...humanity is pretty much wiped out...and gone into hiding from the xenomorph...Cloned Ripley should be the protagonist...alien5 blomkamp?
They would have to de age weaver if she was to come back. Would be nice to ignore alien 3 and res, and bring back hicks
Soooo when can we expect the Alien audiobooks narrated by you, with spooky music for added tension :-)
Haha never!
@@AlienvsPredatorGalaxy awww :-( i'll put it on my dream list then consisting of a Predator open world/s game, Isolation 2, Neill Blomkamp's Alien movie and many others.
Some of that would be good ideas for a script for the next film if there will be one
this would have been a start in making Alien 3 good. I would have rather had Hicks and Newt be the protagonists while Ripley was incapacitated in some way, maybe had the alien removed from her which leaves her in a coma. Hicks and an older Newt would help the survivors while the company takes a more active role in trying to get the xenos back to their lab where they can experiment on them. Maybe have a black ops Marine detachment be who is playing foil to Hicks. I don't anything would have been better than what we got.
I believe William Gibson's original "Alien 3" script did have Hicks as the main protagonist, while Newt (who's very much alive) has a small role where she's sent to live with her grandparents.
Great video
Awesome video. Nice work. Perfect example of dumbassery suit interference... & for NO reason at all. They never learn.
That scale model of the crashed EEV was sweet.
always horrible to see and hear what could have been
- like that mythical 3 hour Alien film with extended scenes
give the original script a read. Its a wild ride. Oddly enough the new PRPG has a planet in it that fits the original script
I think seeing a rival of Weyland-Yutani would be interesting and something they could have done for alien 4
The question I have is, How would the Alien have had so much time to construct the new hive?
The movie I saw in 1979 included the hive scene with the crew of the nostromo..Ripley flamed em all.
Alien 3 was a good movie but it had its flaws. For one they thought it was time to bring the Alien universe to an end hence the reason they killed Ripley so to bring the Alien universe back to life again they had to do some surgery by having her cloned to bring her back from the dead. The other flaw in Alien 3 is that we did not learn anything new about Alien biology other than a few tid bits like the fact that the Alien will be different depending on what life form the facehugger hosts.
Adding a scene like this would have given them a chance for us to learn new things about Alien biology but if you want to know why they do not go through with this its probably for the first point I made and that is they probably did not care about showing us new information about the Xenomorph because they were bringing the Alien universe to an end anyway and wanted to focus more on ending it.
Movie would have made more sense, no queen, then the alien egg morphs instead.
Yeah it would have made it seem like a proper step up for the alien. A more perfect life cycle.
How would it make more sense? The Xenomorphs are actually modeled directly after a particularly rare wasp in real life and the Queen is modeled after that particular Queen wasp. She lays her eggs inside of victims, the eggs hatch, the larva eat their way out killing the victim and their salvia does something to the now dead body and then uses portions of their carcasses to construct a hive!?
So how does "not" having a Queen make sense?
Also if you look into canon Alien lore, cocooning is still used...but ONLY if a queen is not present for a lengthy period of time and if a living hive may not be sustainable at that present time.
To me, a Queen makes perfect sense. It doesn't close all the loops either, but gives an expansion on their extremely complex life cycle.
To go from human/life form ---> (THIS DOESN'T MAKE LOGICAL SENSE) ovamorphs/eggs ---> makes zero sense.... how does breaking down a human into ovamorphs...that still has the dna sequence to create facehuggers.... Doesn't add up, unless it's a final option and I mean final option if there's a lack of a producer of the eggs.
What's more believable that thousands upon thousands of life was used to egg morph (which actually takes a considerable amount of time) or something that biologically produces them and carries the DNA to do so.
Also, if you remember in Alien, when they're aboard the ship and discover all the unhatched eggs under the blue mist, everyone speculates how'd all those eggs get there and the Captain says "Or...something....something big laid these, something I don't want to meet".
^ For some reason people forget this one little line from the very first movie.
@@YugiohMaster1987 I am aware of all this, I mean if no queen is around, makes sense that the alien will egg morph victims to breed until a queen is born. The A3 runner just kills everything, even after knowing a queen is in Ripley later on. It didn't nest build or secure hosts, the queen would be born with nothing to use as hosts.
Leadworks from AVP2… so many fun matches. Wonder if there are any servers still running.
Anyone here lucky enough to go to Alien war in London in the 90s? I managed to go as a boy of 11, nearly shit my pants...Good Times, Trocadero say 1996 maybe?
I'm jealous! It's the one big thing I wish I'd have got to experience! For me, it was all about Ride At The Speed of Fright.
I would remove Alien 3 and have James Cameron make a sequel to Aliens. Call it Alien 3 or something....
There was a small version of 1.. When Murphy gets chopped up in the fan.. After the Alien spits acid in his face..
Also the hives were Giga -esc and the produces had a major fall out with the mad artist.
The meat locker was in Alien resurrection. So, this term meat locker is a metaphor.
they should of put it in the movie. i love the eggmorphing cocoon from ALIEN. I even made an Eggmorphing diorama for my NECA ALIEN figure. I used a Star Wars figure to be a host for the cacoon and sculpted an egg around it. then used expanding form for the rest of the cocoon
Yes, I for one love the eggmorphing and I'd love the meat locker.
I love Alien 3. The perfect nihilistic ending.
Man, I've tried to get the classic AvP running on my computer but no success. Not talking about AvP 2000 Classic, but the actual ISO for AvP 1999 because the updated version, has a serious flaw involving the Alien vision that bothers me a lot.
I usually don't care much for deleted scenes, I consider them to be deleted for a reason, most of the time, a good one. But this concept of a meat locker is interesting, a fresh take on the hive concept from Aliens. So sad this wasn't filmed, but with AI technology developing, who knows, maybe some day someone will create images from those deleted concepts? Deleted scripts? Of course, it will never be like the real thing, but at least, it will be fun to imagine.
I think the idea with the cocoons is to show that the xenomorphs intend to transform all living beings
to their own kind. Replacing everything on the places they embark to their own species ?
@@user-sc9li1qt1e Or maybe it was meant to show how dangerous the Xenomorph is, even when it doesn't kill humans, it still hunts them to keep the "meat stock" fresh.
where can I download or stream the assembly cut?
It's on the Quadrilogy or Anthology boxsets. Don't believe it's on any streaming services.
Blade runner is my all time favourite movie followed VERY closely by Aliens!
Me too! They’re both just always good to watch, they never get old to me.🤔👍
How would Dallas still be alive or not even age over a span of 50+ years??? 🤨
Im glad this video follows the first rule of Alien Fans. "Thou shalt not acknowledge Pro.. (swallows vomit) ..prometheus."
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Also can anyone tell me what the score is to this video
The artist is on the end-card. :) It's Eric Matyas, the particular track is They're Here.
How did Fincher know of the deleted egg morphing scene prior to 2003?
It was well publicised. Cameron was aware of it - and quite thankful it wasn't in the film.
@@AlienvsPredatorGalaxy ah, ok.
It was on the laserdisc, remember laserdisc?, version of Alien.
Actually that's from the orginial Alien movie....NOT Alien 3
What is it with these rookie video makers always thinking they have to read visible text. First rule you learn when using PowerPoint slides. You never, ever, ever, read the text. Let the viewer read it. Anytime the text is read to me I FF on to the video. Wise up rookies.
ham locker
I wanna see the meat locker
Taken on its own the hive scene makes so much sense. The film really lacks a big push for the final act. There's a ticking clock, yes, but something more visually apparent like a hive in the final stretch would really indicate... She's coming.
There are a lot of terrfici ideas for Alien 3 that never made it. I love just about everything Giger did and tried to do for the new breed of alien on display. I much prefer his puma-like design with the new tongue, and seductive qualities. The movie contains discussion of rape, and how the men haven't had the company of women. I always thought Giger's artistic instincts on this front were very apt. Especially with all the religious imagery and the idea of sin. Having an alien have more of those seductive qualities and use them against the prisoners... I don't know, I think it was a missed opportunity.
Same for the hive. Like I said above, I think it would have really helped the final act of the movie to have one more big reveal.
Wtf? Is the implication that the alien somehow produced a laser-light tripwire?
That seems to be the implication. I'm glad that never made it in personally.
@@AlienvsPredatorGalaxy It's funny to think of sci-fi writers trying to retroactively explain the presence of some laser stage prop they just kinda threw in the original movie just because it was lying around essentially.
Shame, they should’ve kept it.
What ruined Alien 3 the most was the fact that the Alien had no purpose. Like they said they decided to make it just kill to eat, when it was established early on that an alien with so few hosts and no queen would use all available hosts to propagate the hive. This was the case on the Nostromo and Acheron.
They got around this by saying because it was a dog or ox host to the alien it was a bit more rabid and it’s instincts less concerned with survival, but seeing this it proves they just couldn’t be arsed and went with the cheap and easy option, thus ruining the franchise and creating a situation that ruined any chances of a decent continuance and didn’t even explain how the egg got on the Sulaco. It was just a sloppy attempt, it should have been given to a director who had more passion for the project.
That said I did grow an appreciation for the film eventually, I say eventually because like most alien fans when you were waiting for 3 to come out after the epics Alien and Aliens the disappointment of that first viewing was palpable.
There was a Queen (on Ripley’s body), the creature was killing for food and to protect the host of the Queen
@@charlespuruncajas9663 yes there was a queen but there were gonna be no hosts for the queens eggs because the alien dog cow thing was killing them all. In the film they removed the meat locker nest and egg morphing scenes, which was my point, they made it all about just killing and not the propagation of a hive for the future Queen.
I do not abide by he ovomorph idea...I also do not really care for any of the prequels and sequels after Aliens... (art direction not withstanding)... Ridley Scott had a scent that was supposed to be in alien where the camera pans around the equipment in the shuttle after Ripley is in hypersleep. This scene reveals and egg was placed in the shuttle for either Ripley to be infected or her rescuers. I'm glad that did not pan out otherwise we would not have had the brilliant "Aliens" sequel... The idea of a larder or meat locker where a xenomorph would gorge and then pupate into a queen similar to how bees get a diet that transforms a bee to a queen....aka royal jelly... The movie industry often destroys successful IP thru disconnected committees and allowing too many chiefs on the set... unfortunate.
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Alien 3?
Oh no, not that shit again.
I have no memory of Alien 3 as it was so crappy, so you reading OT the screenplay to us is utterly useless.