02 - Alien 3

After years in the music video industry, David Fincher was handed the break of a lifetime to the direct the third installment in the landmark Alien franchise. The first two defined genre filmmaking and Fincher found himself challenged by second-guessing executives, an Oscar-nominated star, and numerous production challenges. The film was not received warmly by critics or fans. We discuss the merits of this maligned sequel, and whether the “workprint version” released in 2003 as a direct-to-disc special edition is more worthy of recognition as the work of David Fincher.