William Gibson (TRP mention)

[Otto]

That's great, thanks


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                 TULLY
     It's called the military-industrial complex;
     it's called my ass out of bed; it's called
     jerking me around... Any way you wanna call
     it, it's the same bullshit...

Otto

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Himself" <himself at richardryan.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 3:23 PM
Subject: NP: William Gibson (TRP mention)
> 
> To digress completely from the subject of Pynchon, the Guardian article
> includes an amusing piece of trivia I hadn't previously known: Gibson
> drafted an early version of "Alien 3" which was rejected (well before
> David Fincher became involved with the project.)  Gibson's near-miss is
> a pity, since a quick skim of his script suggests that the Gibson flavor
> would have been much more palatable than what we were ultimately served.
> The full text of the WG draft is -- surprise, surprise -- widely
> available on the Internet.  See, for example:
> http://www.cis.rit.edu/~jerry/Text/collect/alien3.html  Oddly, the
> Gibson version scarcely features Sigourney Weaver's Ripley character at
> all.  One wonders if she wasn't available when WG took on the
> assignment, and then killed his script when she decided to become more
> seriously involved. 
>