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Not that it matters much, but his new CV has been posted online. He has several projects in development as a writer/director, a few already known here. But the really funny thing is the Alien3 video game -commercial he apparently directed! Anybody ever seen this, looks like Stanley was way ahead of George A. Romero, who had a similar stint with Resident Evil 2 years later.

Has any more information regarding this surfaced? I'm a huge Alien 3 fan but have never seen the Alien 3 video game commercial and have never been able to find it anywhere despite owning tons of rare Alien 3 stuff.

I'm wondering how Stanley became involved? Was it through 20th Century Fox? Was it through David Fincher?
The only Alien 3 - Richard Stanley connections I can make is that both Steve Norrington and Chris Halls (now known as Chris Cunningham) worked on Hardware and on Alien 3 (In fact Halls worked on Hardware, Brave, and Dust Devil)

Could they have perhaps recommended Stanley for the job?
Also, an Alien 3 Pepsi commercial was produced around the same time (this one I do remember seeing). What are the chances Stanley might have directed this as well?

Any info would be astounding!

Well, ALIEN 3 was mostly shot in England and Stanley was just recently recognized as a sci-fi director at the time - HARDWARE came out in '90, Fincher started shooting sometime in '91, I think. Before him, there was a revolving door of a few directors; Renny Harlin and Vincent Ward, at least. UK is a relatively small shop when it comes to genre filmmakers; Stanley might've very well been approached at some point to take over the reins, based on the success he had with HARDWARE.

At the time, I think he had DUST DEVIL quite firmly en route to production. Mind you, he did that with JUDGE DREDD at the time, which back then was a UK flagship for sci-fi - that is, before people saw the end product. So while I can't speak for Stanley's behalf on this, what I can say is that there was a good chance he was met by the producers on the job. If so, he might've opted to do the commercial instead, as I believe Fox's pay might've been quite good and he'd have the chance to tackle a bit with the famed source material without going through the same treadmill Fincher had to put up with.

Stanley's comment on JUDGE DREDD might lend credence to this scenario: "At that time Dust Devil was happening, but also I was getting very wary of getting involved because it's a bit like Batman, the margin for creativity is a bit on the slim side. And after RoboCop and Mad Max, you couldn't really get the character anywhere that someone else hadn't been before." - Fangoria 125

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I can wholeheartedly recommend the workprint of ALIEN 3 to anyone interested in the series. While still far from perfect, the 2.5 hour version actually makes sense and has whole lot more of character development. Plus, Paul McGann (The I of WITHNAIL AND I) now has a larger part as a suitably quirky convict.

Is that Paul McGann the same actor who portrayed Doctor Who in the 1996 telefilm with Eric Roberts?

That's the one. Anyone who's heard the Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas featuring (among other past doctors) Paul McGann, would hopefully agree that McGann could have been an excellent Doctor. The recent success of both Eccleston and Tennants Doctors in the new TV show has merely whetted my appetite for an Eccleston, Tennant, McGann 3 Doctor special... I can dream

Thanks for the info sic, if you ever get to interview Stanley again - please, please bring up Alien 3.

And you wouldn't believe how long I waited for the Alien 3 SE. While I enjoy the 'assembly cut' that's on the 2 disk set, you should know that there is also another cut that's been out on bootleg for years and actually includes material not seen in any officially released version of Alien 3.
This site... http://www.planetavp.com/al/index2.htm is now outdated as it has no mention of the assembly cut but it does list a few deleted scenes that didn't make it into the assembly cut (I suspect I'm not telling you anything you don't already know here )

Alien 3 Pepsi commercial is here.