That's how Giger's original egg design actually looked.

Not really his fault. There was only one screenplay to feature Hicks and Newt as key players. Fincher get's flak for something the studio had decided on for him. "Here's a half finished script kid. Now we want you to shoot this, and make writing adjustments on set as you go… Oh, and we're going to mess with you every…

Scott says a lot of things. He's a bit of a random-grab rambler these days.

It was never indestructible. The whole point of O'bannon laboring to find a goddamn reason for them not to just shoot the thing was because he wanted it to be a legitimate organism. The same reason there are such pains taken to demonstrate it's life cycle in the first film. The reason the acid blood exists is because…

There is virtually no CGI in Alien 3. Just the one shot of the head cracking near the end. The "early cgi" is actually a really awesome rod puppet. It was just poorly optically placed into the shots.

The original script had the Predator facing off with an alien inside of a k-mart. I shit you not.