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Alien 3 (1992)

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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.

https://www.avpgalaxy.net/alien-movies/alien-3/the-meat-locker/

Amendment following further information learned after this video was released.

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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