A fan-favorite version of David Fincher’s Alien 3 has been released on HBO Max.
Alien 3: The Assembly Cut is a much longer version of the much-maligned 1992 Alien franchise film starring Sigourney Weaver.
This version clocks in at two hours and 25 minutes compared to the theatrical cut, which is one hour and 54 minutes.
The lore behind this edit goes like this: Fox wanted a “Director’s Cut” of Alien 3 for home video. Fincher declined to participate. So the studio created this “Assembly Cut” and released it on the 2003 Alien Quadrilogy DVD box set.
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The Assembly Cut contains extended takes and deleted scenes, plus scenes that directly impact the plot (Ripley and the inmates actually succeed in trapping the alien in the toxic waste room, for instance, until one prisoner deliberately sets it
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