Jesus that was a month ago . Relax dude I was probably stoned and playing Overwatch you angry badger <| sep |> Funny you say that , the production of Alien 3 is actually the stuff of legend for how poorly it went . They actually completely restarted production something like 3 times , scrapping all sets , costumes and script , with the original director finally quitting at the 11 th hour . I remember the ' monks ' were one of the carry overs from a previous script where Ripley lands on some sort of wood based churchy colony . By the time we get to what ended up on screen , they had blown so much budget that one of their big cost saving measures was to take a very , very cheap and unproven director fucking David Fincher , who had up to that time only really directed music videos and get him filming without a complete script and only 5 weeks prep because the studio was needed for the next movie scheduled to start shooting there . He was literally being handed pages of script during production , so all the scenes were filmed out of order without anybody knowing what the complete storyline was . Despite this being essentially his big break , Fincher has said of the movie No one hated it more than me to this day , no one hates it more than me . I watched a whole documentary on the making of the film somewhere , maybe on a bonus disk in the Alien Quadrilogy DVD set . Despite it being a complete rush job by inexperienced people , a lot of them were very talented and ended up doing well in the industry obviously like Fincher himself and I think that shows in the director ' s cut , which I actually really like and thought was a nice capstone to the series . It was a lot more similar in tone to Alien 1 than any other entry to the franchise and I feel if they had more time and experience it would have been truly great .