In The [London] Times, author David Hughes, whose The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made was published in the UK last July, lists the top "10 greatest sci-fi films never made." The #1 spot in the list is held by Vincent Ward's Alien 3:
"Having rejected a script by sci-fi author William Gibson, the producers of the Alien franchise planned to follow James Cameron's "Vietnam in space" Aliens with an ambitious, arty third instalment by Vincent Ward, the visionary New Zealand-born director of The Navigator and, more recently, The River Queen. A planet made of wood, and spaceships modelled on clipper ships, were just two of the strange ideas in Ward's approach. Sadly, it never got off the ground, though Fox ultimately went with another maverick director, David Fincher.
"His much-derided Alien3 is, by the way, ripe for re-appraisal; sadly, a director's cut of the film — an unofficial version of which is included in the Alien Quadrilogy DVD set — will probably remain the Greatest Sci-Fi Movie Never Seen."
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Among Hughes' other nine titles are: Steven Spielberg's Night Skies (which apparently was transformed into Poltergeist), a film version of Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, and Alejandro Jodorowsky's film adaptation of Dune.
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