February 29 2004
Whedon's original Alien Resurrection script.
I came across this script which might interest some of you guys, it's the original script for Alien Resurrection by Joss.
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Fred's mom: "I mean, Rog's always had a thing for those disgusting "Alien" movies, all the slime and teeth. Ugh, he just can't get enough of them. Except for that last one they made - I think he dozed off."
DaveW | February 29, 15:42 CET
Is that heresy here?
I'll get my coat.....
zz9 | February 29, 16:02 CET
Simon | February 29, 16:27 CET
(whimpers and tears) “When I heard that Angel was cancelled, I was having fruit punch, and I thought well Spike and Angel and those other vampires will NEVER HAVE anymore fruit punch that looks like blood EVER!!! It’s stupid. It’s mortal and stupid, and no one will explain to me WHY!?!?!?” (turns evil and all-powerful and causes computer equipment to overload)
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jack knight | February 29, 18:34 CET
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Caroline | February 29, 18:40 CET
friarfunk | February 29, 19:18 CET
Invisible Green | February 29, 19:41 CET
That said, I'm trying to read the script and it's all going completely over my head. Some basic knowledge of the films is probably required to understand it, or simply common sense, and I'm evidently lacking both. For some reason the insect scene at the beginning reminds me of Jasmine, but that may be the coffee talking.
Faith | February 29, 20:25 CET
Tycho | February 29, 20:28 CET
janeway216 | February 29, 21:57 CET
Oh Joss. How I love the parlance.
This is better than the movie.
So that makes Buffy, X-Men, and not Alien:Resurrection all movies in which actors and directors failed to deliver well Joss' writing.
Chirp | February 29, 23:46 CET
I think this movie was probably WAY TOO EXPENSIVE too shoot. I understand why it got changed, though I wish it hadn't.
Chirp | March 01, 00:39 CET
friarfunk | March 01, 01:16 CET
Half way through the script myself, but it's clear it got butchered in the moviemaking. Many basic things are stil there but they're altered in such a way, that what was good about them or what point they had, is taken out. It's also been considerably toned down in darkness, violence and language. Gotta appeal to the families when making sf/horror about fighting and killing horrid alien monsters ya know.
And yes, matter of fact, they did run out of budget. Joss once said he had to rewrite the end about 3 times. They had no money for any of it.
As for the 'newborn', it was just a bad design. I never understood why it was so zombie-like. So skeletal, like it was decaying already. The absence of a nose, like a rotting corpse, was made even more silly when they made him sniff things. And the eyes in the sockets.....he looked dead and decaying. And why did he have tiny little pathetic teeth?? And those boobs! Horrid.
Also felt Wynona was miscast and reading the script that feeling doubles. Call was clearly intended to be tougher and more determined than doe-eyed and whiny Wynona.
I still say I'd love a voice-over commentary by Joss over this movie, saying exactly what he felt was done wrong everywhere, hehe.
EdDantes | March 01, 04:07 CET
I actually, must be one of the few people who enjoyed the film. I loved all of the movies (yes, even the third).
There are aspects of the original script that i'd wish they'd kept in, but overall the movie floated my boat :)
Although the newborn was a little disappointing, i liked the symmetry ... the fact that Ripley had a part of the alien in her and the alien queen had a part of ripley in her. i just wished the design AND look of the newborn had been better. i actually liked the fact that the monster felt a motherly feeling towards ripley and killed its own mother, some aspect of it was searching for its humanity: by killing his alien queen mother he rejected the 'monster' and sought out its humanity by viewing ripley as his mother. MY interpretation of the film (like the second one especially, and the others too some respect) ... the theme of the film was looking at humanity, what is humanity? who is human? what makes us human? and what makes us monsters? where is the line between monster and human drawn? Are some humans more monstrous than these monstrous looking aliens?
DarkchildeUK | March 01, 08:05 CET
friarfunk | March 01, 11:01 CET