James Cameron’s Alien III – The Dangerous Bishop

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/Sigourney Weaver, James Cameron, and Gale Anne Hurd at the Aliens premiere, 1986./

“I’m wondering if Alien 3 is in the typewriter?” Bobby Wygant asked James Cameron upon the release of Aliens in 1986. “Not for me it’s not,” he answered.

“I think Fox will want to see how this film does,” Cameron continued, “and if they’re still enthusiastic about, or if they become enthusiastic about a continuation beyond the film that Gale and I made then they’ll have to pursue that in their way. I mean find a writer, find a director, because we’ll be on to something else, I think. Some new territory.”

Wygan also asked Sigourney Weaver about Alien 3. “It took someone as talented - and crazy - as Jim Cameron to come up with a story that was as good as the first one,” Weaver said, “and I would be surprised if it could happen again. And I have a feeling, if it happened again, that Newt would have grown up and that she would be the one to go on and carry the guns, so to speak.”

In 1995 Carrie Henn briefly mentioned James’ ideas, or framework, for an Aliens sequel: “I know that James Cameron had planned to have Hicks, Ripley and me in Alien 3, to have a family-type thing.” Her feelings about that not happening? “Still, life goes on.”

Lance Henriksen also revealed that Cameron had discussed some character beats for Bishop in a potential third movie: “I also remember Jim saying to me [that] if we ever did another one that what he would have done is probably had that character realize that somebody had fooled around with his brain and make him constantly worried that he was going to do something dangerous. And so I thought, ‘Well, what a nice piece of conflict that is.'”

Earlier in 2004 he had said: “Jim Cameron […] was talking about doing another Alien movie. He often pondered about what he might do with Bishop, saying that somehow they messed with his brain to make him dangerous.”

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So James Cameron intended to revisit the idea of a mad and dangerous android as well.

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June 06, 2017

Interesting. I had read a script somewhere that was supposed to be the sequel to Aliens with a story that was along the lines of what you've posted here, with Bishop having been repaired after the events of Aliens and thinking his programming had been tampered with so that he was possibly compromised and a danger.

I'm not certain if the script was real or something fan made, if I ever find it or someone knows what it was, i'll link it on site. Things I remember from it are that Newt and Hicks are alive and that Bishop breaks his legs jumping/falling down a ladder, something about his new android frame being fragile because of a cheap repair job with sub par parts.

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