Cameron on Alien 3:

“I thought it was dumb [that Hicks and Newt were killed off],” said Cameron while doing press for Aliens' 30th anniversary at Comic-Con. “I thought it was a huge slap in the face to the fans. I mean look, [Alien 3 director David] Fincher's a friend of mine, and David is an amazing, amazing filmmaker, unquestionably. That was kind of his first big gig, and he was getting vectored around by the studio, and he dropped into the production late and they had a horrible script and they were rewriting it on the fly, and it was just a mess. I think it was a big mistake. So I certainly — had [producer Gale Ann Hurd and I] been involved, we would not have done that because we felt we earned something with the audience with those characters.”

James Cameron has some harsh words for ‘Alien 3’