Ned - thanks for the info - that makes sense by the sounds of it. Well hopefully "Chappie" will turn out to be a good flick (all signs are so far pointing towards it being good, I'd say).
 Originally Posted by Neil
However, the novel was released as a tie-in with Alien 3 (1992) which took the story off in another direction. To avoid any confusion that might arise, the characters' names were changed, so Hicks and Newt became Wilks and Billie, respectively. Other minor characters were also renamed.
When Book One was 'remastered' in 1996 and re-released as Outbreak the panels were colored and, to bring it in line with the revised story as presented in Earth Hive, the characters were renamed and references to LV-426 were changed to the colony world of Rim.
I've not read "Earth Hive", and this was back in the day before Wikipedia and easy access to knowledge about these things, so I had no idea it was the first in a series. I just picked whatever book happened to be on the shelf in WHSmith that I hadn't already read. The three that I did read were "Rogue", "Nightmare Asylum", and "Female War". I read them when I was just into High School, so that was a time when I rarely did any reading at all (aside from homework - so at that time reading was always a chore, something I had to do, in my mind, so it never presented itself as something to be enjoyed by choice) ... however, I absolutely stormed through "Rogue" and "Nightmare Asylum" and enjoyed them immensely ... but I did have a nasty habit during my teenage years of starting a book and then losing steam mid-way through and abandoning things, which is what I did with "Female War". However, once I'd left school and reading became something I could choose to do for enjoyment, I went back and read several books that I'd abandoned (including "Female War").
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Anyway, back to the film - I think that, considering the concept art features Ripley and Hicks, and that much of the attention-grabbing this proposed new Alien film has garnered has been centered on the Ripley/Hicks comeback, to not have them in the film would be a major slap in the face to fans I'd think. They've essentially said "this is the sort of film we're gonna make with these two characters returning", so to then not do that would unleash a barrage of hatred.
Anything they can do to retcon away the arse-wash that was Resurrection would be a blessing! I'd love for it to be an 'alt timeline' that skews from Aliens and avoids Alien 3. The movie industry can do remakes and reboots and reimaginings at the drop of a hat, so why not alternative universes? Like I've said before, comics and novels do that all the time, so why not movies?
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Seriously though, it bugged me for two reasons: 1) of course the attachment to the characters from the previous film & 2) the casual & callous way the characters are just tossed aside.
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