20 Mind-Blowing Facts About Alien Movies

Screenwriter Joss Whedon hasn’t exactly been tongue-tied when it comes to expressing how he feels about how his script was interpreted and eventually became Alien: Resurrection, stating in 2005 that ‘they just executed it in such a ghastly fashion as to render it almost unwatchable’. Doesn’t mince his words, does he?

And it’s true that if Whedon had had his way it could’ve been a different movie entirely. An early treatment he wrote for the film didn’t feature Ellen Ripley at all and instead focused on a resurrected cloned version of Newt from Aliens, and later versions included a cannabis farm and a quadrupedal Newborn.

One of the major differences between Whedon’s script and the finished film were their endings.

Whedon originally imagined a finale featuring a battle between Ripley and the Newborn set on Earth and penned several different endings that took place in a forest, a futuristic junkyard, a maternity ward and a desert though he was told to rein in his vision by studios execs due to budgetary concerns and ended up setting the finale aboard the Betty instead.