{"id":210259,"date":"2025-12-29T21:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/210259\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:35:07","slug":"james-cameron-is-also-mad-about-the-opening-of-alien-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/210259\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron Is Also Mad About the Opening of ‘Alien 3’"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Cameron\u2019s 1986 film Aliens <\/a>wasn\u2019t just a smash; it set the series up for continued success. In addition to outgrossing the 1979 Ridley Scott classic<\/a>, the ending gave the franchise a great place to start a subsequent story, as well as three new heroes\u2014Newt, Hicks, and Bishop\u2014to go along with Sigourney Weaver\u2019s Ellen Ripley. When a sequel came out six years later<\/a>, though, none of that happened, and even though it\u2019s been almost 40 years<\/a>, James Cameron has thoughts. \u201cI thought that was the stupidest fucking thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Hicks himself, Michael Biehn, on Biehn\u2019s podcast<\/a>, Cameron was asked about the decision in 1992\u2019s Alien 3<\/a> to kill the young character Newt in the opening credits. \u201cYou spent the last third of your movie saving her,\u201d Biehn pointed out. \u201cYeah, exactly,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cSo, you build a lot of goodwill around the characters of Hicks, Newt, and Bishop. And then the first thing they do in the next film is kill them all off. Really smart, guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cameron continued, \u201cAnd replace them with a bunch of fucking convicts that you hate and want to see die, right? Really clever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alien 3 was directed by David Fincher and famously had a pretty troubled production. So Cameron did give the director of Zodiac, Fight Club, and The Social Network a pass. \u201cNow I\u2019m a big fan of Fincher and his work and all that,\u201d Cameron added. \u201cThat was his first feature film, and he was getting vectored around by a lot of other voices and all that, so I give him a free pass on that one.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, Biehn pointed out, \u201cHe was handed a bowl of shit.\u201d Cameron agreed.<\/p>\n

The choice of Alien 3 to kill those characters is one that has been debated for years<\/a>, with fans falling on both sides. Many side with Cameron, seeing their deaths as a wasted opportunity. Others see it as a great way to raise the emotional stakes and buck up against expectations. (Many early versions of Alien 3 did have those characters<\/a> play a role in the plot, but that got changed over the years.)<\/p>\n

Wherever you stand, though, you 100% understand Cameron\u2019s frustration four decades later about the dismissal of his work, which is clearly some of the best in the franchise. He went on to briefly discuss Neill Blomkamp\u2019s attempts to return to the franchise as well as his enjoyment of Fede Alvarez\u2019s Alien: Romulus. You can watch it all below.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Cameron\u2019s 1986 film Aliens wasn\u2019t just a smash; it set the series up for continued success. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[97000,17602,146,85,46,30586,106398,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-210259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-alien-3","9":"tag-aliens","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-james-cameron","14":"tag-michael-biehn","15":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}