Alien (franchise) "everything wrong" with his script. On its way back to Earth, the U.S. commercial spaceship "Nostromo" is diverted to a desolate planetoid by a cryptic signal from a derelict alien spacecraft. While exploring the alien ship, one of the "Nostromo"s crewmen discovers the remains of the ship's pilot and also a large chamber that contains thousands of egg-like objects. One of the eggs releases a creature that attaches itself to his face and renders him unconscious. The others break quarantine to bring him back aboard the ship. The parasite dies and the crewman wakes up, seemingly fine. Soon afterwards, an
Alien 3 Alien 3 Alien 3 (stylized as "A"LIEN³) is a 1992 American science fiction horror film directed by David Fincher and written by David Giler, Walter Hill and Larry Ferguson from a story by Vincent Ward. It stars Sigourney Weaver reprising her role as Ellen Ripley and is the third film installment in the "Alien" franchise, preceded by "Aliens" (1986) and succeeded by "Alien Resurrection" (1997). Set right after the events of "Aliens", Ripley and an Alien organism (Tom Woodruff Jr.) are the only survivors of the Colonial Marine spaceship "Sulaco" escape pod's crash on a planet housing a penal colony