Wooden Planet and Vincent Wards other strange ideas

When Alien 3 was in pre production there was confusion over where the plot was going to go. After Aliens (probably the best Sci-Fi movie EVER MADE) the plot was going to have to pick up after the conclusion of that movie which had Ripley, little girl Newt, an android Bishop and marine Hicks escape alive from the colony that was infested with aliens, Vincent Ward had an idea of where to pick it up from.



Take a 14th century type monstery only in space, Wards idea was that it would be a wooden planet (go figure) with a eight feet deep atomosphere, the inside would be huge monasteries and the outside would be wheat fields and an artifical lake at the top where the Sulaco would crash into starting off the movie.

As in the final cut of Alien 3 only Ripley survives and Hicks and Newt (two awesome characters we loved from the last movie) are just written off like that, the alien escapes into the sewer and the monks obviously imprision Ripley because she is a woman and they're monks, then the alien starts killing monks and taunting Ripley and preying on monks across the wheat fields until they eventually lure the alien with glass solar panels and dump boiling glass on top of it or something like that to kill it, then Ripley just walks into the burning wheat fields and dies.







The Problem

Ward continued to pride himself on the fact that there had been nothing like this in cinema before that's probably because he didn't exactly piece it together properly, for instance how in the name of God could they build a planet solely made out of wood in the middle of space, and that one fact why wood of all things?

I could see where he was trying to go with this but there are certain things he hurt in the process, those are the laws of physics, and my intelligence.