Lebbeus Woods posts some of his concept art for the unfilmed and very different version of Alien 3 that was planned by Vincent Ward. I recall reading about this from time to time in various film and science fiction sites and journals – a ‘wooden world’; essentially a medieval pattern of life within an old space station, into which Ripley’s lifeboat crashes with its Alien passenger. It all looks very unusual, which I think was the idea after Ridley Scott’s ‘old dark house’ in space horror and James Cameron’s action-packed, gun-totin’ sequel, to again do something very different in style and feel and pace. Sadly after Ward left the project it was kicked around and endlessly fiddled with by other writers and studio suits to become the frankly dire Alien 3 we know now (despite Fincher being brought in part way through it is still a mess of a film and even the Alien isn’t well done), so all we have are these concept illustrations of what could have been a very different and unusual Alien film; not even Steampunk, more Woodpunk. (via Boing Boing)
Tue, Feb 10, 2009
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