{"id":192734,"date":"2025-10-11T12:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192734\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:07:13","slug":"sigourney-weaver-says-shes-read-alien-sequel-by-walter-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192734\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver Says She’s Read Alien Sequel by Walter Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sigourney Weaver\u2019s \u201cAlien\u201d journey might not be over.<\/p>\n

During a New York Comic Con panel, the actress let slip that Walter Hill, one of the producers on the original film and a series mainstay, has written a sequel script. And not only that \u2013 but Weaver has read it. Disney has also confirmed that the new film is in development.<\/p>\n

\u201cWalter Hill is a very good friend of mine, and he wrote 50 pages where Ripley would be now, and they are quite extraordinary. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s going to happen, but I have had a meeting with Fox, Disney, or whoever it is now,\u201d Weaver told the NYCC crowd on Friday. \u201cI said I have never felt the need. I was always like, let her rest, let her recover. But what Walter has written seems so true to me as very much about the society that would incarcerate someone who has tried to help mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She continued: \u201cShe\u2019s a problem to them, so she\u2019s sort of tucked away. Anyway, I think it\u2019s a very strong first 50 pages, and I\u2019m thinking about working with Walter to see what the rest of the story would be.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last time Weaver portrayed the character of Ellen Ripley was in the 2014 video game, \u201cAlien: Isolation.\u201d Before that, she starred in 1997\u2019s \u201cAlien: Resurrection\u201d as a clone of Ripley. Her role in Ridley Scott\u2019s \u201cAlien\u201d (1979) led to her starring in James Cameron\u2019s sequel \u201cAliens\u201d (in 1986), which earned her a Best Actress nomination at that year\u2019s Academy Awards. She also starred in David Fincher\u2019s \u201cAlien 3\u201d (1992).<\/p>\n

There have been attempts made, over the years, to bring back Weaver\u2019s Ripley, perhaps most notably by South African filmmaker Neill Blomkamp, who worked with Weaver on 2015\u2019s \u201cChappie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hill\u2019s last film was 2022\u2019s \u201cDead for a Dollar.\u201d He is also the auteur behind \u201c48 Hrs.,\u201d \u201cStreets of Fire,\u201d \u201cLast Man Standing\u201d and many, many more.<\/p>\n

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