 One early draft of the script focused almost entirely on Hicks,  Bishop and Newt, played in _Aliens (1986)_ (qv) by  Michael Biehn (qv), Lance Henriksen (qv) and Carrie Henn (qv)  respectively. The story would tie up loose ends from the preceding  film with Newt returning to Earth to live with her grandparents, as  well as Hicks and Bishop and a new team of Colonial Marines battling  a rival faction of planets who use the Alien as a bio