{"id":191917,"date":"2025-10-11T03:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191917\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T03:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:01:07","slug":"sigourney-weaver-had-a-meeting-about-alien-sequel-and-ripley-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191917\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver ‘had a meeting’ about ‘Alien’ sequel and Ripley return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sigourney Weaver<\/a>\u2019s xenomorph fighting days may not be behind her just yet.<\/p>\n

The actress confirmed that she \u201chad a meeting\u201d with Disney about reprising her role as Ellen Ripley in another Alien<\/a> installment and expressed her interest in working with Walter Hill, who produced Ridley Scott<\/a>‘s original 1979 film, to create a \u201cvery different kind of Alien.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWalter Hill is a very good friend of mine and he wrote 50 pages of where Ripley would be now and they are quite extraordinary,\u201d Weaver said during an Alien reunion panel at New York Comic Con<\/a> on Friday. \u201cSo I don’t know if it’s going to happen, but I have had a meeting with Fox \u2014\u00a0Disney, or whoever it is now.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Sigourney Weaver at the “Dust Bunny” premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival on September 08, 2025.<\/p>\n

Earl Gibson III\/Deadline via Getty<\/p>\n

Weaver starred as the fearless officer Ripley in four separate Alien films: Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), and as her clone in Alien: Resurrection (1997).\n<\/p>\n

At the panel, she explained that, outside of Neill Blomkamp\u2019s unrealized Alien movie<\/a>, she wasn\u2019t interested in bringing the character back to the big screen ever again.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cExcept for Neil, I’ve never felt the need to reprise the role. I was always like, \u2018Let her rest! Let her recover!\u2019\u201d Weaver said. \u201cBut what Walter has written is so\u2026first of all, seems so true to me. It\u2019s very much about the society that would incarcerate someone who has tried to help mankind, but she’s a problem to them so she’s tucked away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

She reiterated her excitement over Hill’s “very strong first 50 pages” and voiced her interest in teaming up with the filmmaker on the “very different” project.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m thinking about working with Walter to see what the rest of the story would be,” she said. “It would not be running around air shafts. It would be a very different kind of Alien with a really good script. Scary.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

And, don\u2019t worry, Weaver noted that \u201cthe alien does show up\u201d in Hill’s pages, too.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with\u00a0our\u00a0EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s inevitable,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I love what he’s done with the character. He really gets her strength and her anger and her humor, and it’s very hard to write. It’s surprisingly hard to write Ripley. Everybody makes you sound like a gym teacher. \u2018All right, people, let’s do business!\u2019 So Walter has it.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Sigourney Weaver on the set of ‘Aliens’.<\/p>\n

Bob Penn\/Sygma\/Sygma via Getty<\/p>\n

Weaver recently made headlines when she revealed that she watches FX\u2019s Alien: Earth spinoff with her husband <\/a>because,\u00a0after all of their shared history,\u00a0she is still very much afraid of xenomorphs.<\/p>\n

“I have to make a date with my husband because I don’t want to see it by myself in case one of those things comes out of the screen,\u201d she said at the time. \u201cSo we have to set it up. So I’m behind seeing it, but the ones I’ve seen are fascinating.”<\/p>\n

She went on to praise the Noah Hawley-created series, noting that it\u2019s less focused on aliens and more about \u201cour world, what’s going to be happening to it, what’s going to be important, the role of greed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cIt’s just exploded some of the themes that have always been part of the\u00a0Alien\u00a0series, and I think it’s beautifully cast and beautifully done. I can’t believe it’s television, frankly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver\u2019s xenomorph fighting days may not be behind her just yet. The actress confirmed that she \u201chad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-191917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}