10 Insane Movie Sequels Actors Actually Wanted To Make

Chekov wanting to be eaten by alien worms wasn't even the weirdest 90s sci-fi franchise sequel that its actors wanted to make, though. That honour has to go to the Alien 3 pitch that Sigourney Weaver enthusiastically described as "very original and arresting".

With Aliens doing an excellent job of showing how a sequel should be done by taking the original horror film's material into a different action movie genre, both producers Walter Hill and David Giler, and Weaver herself, wanted to push things further with the third part.

Hill approached New Zealand director Vincent Ward after the success of his surreal medieval movie The Navigator. Ward returned with a story about a hollow wooden planet filled with monks who think that the xenomorph is the devil once Ripley crash lands there with one.

We would have seen a chestburster burst from inside a sheep and aliens stalking through wheat fields, all beneath the surface of this gothic wooden world. Lots of concept art was drawn up, along with plans to built a giant wooden gothic cathedral set 100 metres tall in which to film.

Even though Weaver was far more excited for Alien-meets-The Name Of The Rose than she would be about going through the same motions again in the sequels that we did get, executives at Fox were less keen on something so out there. Instead they crunched Ward's script together with a prison-planet one from Pitch Black's David Twohy and made it into David Fincher's lacklustre Alien 3.