David Twohy's Alien III was a 1989 script draft for a sequel to Aliens. Twohy was the third of ten different writers to tackle the Alien3 project. His draft is the first that bears a resemblance to Alien3 as it was ultimately made, being set inside a huge prison/ore refinery aboard a space station orbiting Earth; this location ultimately formed the basis of the prison setting used in the final shooting script, fused with much of the plot from Vincent Ward's subsequent monastery planet story. Twohy's screenplay was written after Eric Red's proposed script was rejected, and was followed by Vincent Ward and John Fasano's unmade attempt.