The "sister clones" were designed by the late Stan Winston. Their faces were modeled on Natasha Henstridge’s actual childhood photos, making the effect unbearably intimate. These props currently reside in a private collection in Oregon and have never been photographed. Exclusive Scene #4: The Nuclear Orgy (Alternate Ending) The theatrical ending features a dull shootout in a mansion. Ross explodes. Eve survives. The end.
MGM legal department feared a lawsuit from NASA, who cooperated with the film. The agency objected to the implication that astronauts were "intentional biological weapons." Exclusive Scene #3: Eve’s Aborted Infancy One of the most disturbing sequences ever shot for a mainstream horror film involves the character Eve (Natasha Henstridge, returning as the clone "Eve").
Most shockingly, this scene features an exclusive cameo by a digitally de-aged Forest Whitaker as Dan Smithson, explaining that the government wanted Ross to get infected on Mars to create a "breedable male."
Test audiences were confused by the "scientific surrealism." One comment card read, "Too much like The Fly , not enough shooting."
