10 Crazy Movie Sequels That (Thankfully) Never Happened

Alien 3 is perhaps the most divisive entry in the franchise: you either love it as an underrated masterpiece, or you hate it and want it burned with fire.

The third chapter in this iconic franchise initially went through about a gazillion drafts throughout the pre-production stages, with several writers penning scripts that would ultimately come to resemble the Alien 3 we got in almost zero ways. One of these ideas had Ripley fighting aliens on a giant planet made of wood (don't ask), whilst another had Hicks and Bishop battling Xenomorphs as a badass duo.

The most curious of the non-Alien 3 movies, though, has to be the one penned by a guy named Eric Red, the second of ten writers who tried to come up with a suitable plot for this film. Red's vision for Alien 3 moved the story away from Ripley, and honed in on a dude named "Sam Smith."

No, not the recent Oscar-winner known for writing that terrible Bond theme.

The story of this nutty, doomed Alien sequel saw Smith, a soldier with a robotic arm, entering a town called "North Star," confined inside a giant dome on a space station, and built to resemble the United States. Here, he battles a virus that turns people into half-human Xenomorphs, and in the final scene, a bunch of these creatures "fuse" together to make a giant, insane Xenomorph God-like entity.

Red later declared his own script to be "a piece of junk'" which kind of says it all.