{"id":276920,"date":"2025-11-11T04:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276920\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:52:08","slug":"sigourney-weaver-alien-5-was-killed-by-possessive-ridley-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276920\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver: Alien 5 Was Killed by ‘Possessive’ Ridley Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, Blomkamp\u2019s film would have predicted the modern trend of ignoring all the less-loved sequels and taking place in its own timeline. This film would have picked up some time after Aliens<\/a>, ignoring the fate of Newt and Hicks in Alien 3<\/a>, and would have set Ripley to face off with another Alien Queen.<\/p>\n

Of course the actual fifth Alien movie<\/a> ended up being Prometheus<\/a>, Ridley Scott\u2019s exploration of the \u201cspace jockey\u201d (now renamed \u201cengineers\u201d) from the original film. The xenomorph, however, would not appear again in earnest until Scott\u2019s Alien: Covenant<\/a>, which is a more traditional prequel with the titular monster on a rampage on a spaceship. It also featured much of the same philosophical and religious wondering that marked Prometheus, making it something of a mixed bag for fans.<\/p>\n

Weaver also discussed a different fifth Alien film, one written by Walter Hill. In addition to being a producer who helped shepherd the original Alien from a gonzo script by Ronald Shusett and Dan O\u2019Bannon into the classic today, Hill is an accomplished filmmaker in his own right, albeit better known for gritty crime flicks like The Warriors and 48 Hrs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWalter Hill has written about 50 pages. Maybe, by now, he\u2019s written more about where Ripley might be now,\u201d Weaver revealed. \u201cAnd although I\u2019ve never particularly wanted to go back to the series, there\u2019s something about her experience being sidelined now, probably by this society, by this company, by this world and being probably around 200 years old, but still [being] Ripley and you know, presumably these problems [are] still out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weaver remains uncertain about the status of Hill\u2019s current script, noting that it would be \u201ca very different kind of story\u201d than the original Alien. But it sounds like she\u2019s interested in hearing what Hill has in mind\u2014provided that Scott doesn\u2019t tell him to get away too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, Blomkamp\u2019s film would have predicted the modern trend of ignoring all the less-loved sequels and taking place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-276920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}