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One of the things I love about writing for CC2K is that I've had the opportunity to read scripts for movies.  Some are for projects that are only beginning production or are still long from it, and others that ultimately went unrealized, having never gotten beyond the writing stage.  This review marks the first time I've been given the opportunity to read a script that exists somewhere between those two extremes.  Having recently reviewed Joss Whedon's original script for Alien: Resurrection, I was contacted by an ambitious young screenwriter who gave me a copy of his draft for a fifth Alien film, one that he still hopes will get picked up by a major studio for film production.

Let me state for the record that I had nothing to do with writing this script, I don't personally know the screenwriter, Jacob Kunnel, nor do I have any stake in whether or not his script ever becomes a movie.  I'm just an all-around geek and fan of the Alien film franchise, and my goal here is to offer as objective a review of the script for Alien Planet that I can for other like-minded geeks who might find such a thing interesting.  With all that in mind, let's get into this proposed conclusion to the epic story of Ellen Ripley.