William Gibson (TRP mention)

[Jasper Fidget]

On
> Behalf Of Himself
> 
> 
> 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.
> 


I recall hearing that the only thing remaining in Alien3 from Gibson's
script was the barcodes on the backs of the prisoners' heads (talk about
social control!).