The recent rumor\u00a0that the next Alien movie might\u00a0be set to bring back Sigourney Weaver to play a de-aged Ellen Ripley was met with a mixture of excitement and trepidation from fans of the classic sci-fi horror franchise, but\u00a0Alien: Romulus director Fede \u00c1lvarez soon debunked the report as “fun gossip.”<\/p>\n
Ripley may not show up in the Romulus sequel, but it seems there may have been some truth to the rumor that the actress is considering a return to the franchise.<\/p>\n
Weaver had the following to say during a panel appearance at New York Comic-Con.<\/p>\n
\u201c[\u2018Alien\u2019 producer] Walter Hill is a very good friend of mine, and he wrote 50 pages of where Ripley would be now, and they\u2019re quite extraordinary,\u201d Weaver on stage during a conversation moderated by Josh Horowitz. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it\u2019s going to happen, but I have had a meeting with Fox or Disney\u2026I\u2019ve never felt the need [to reprise the role]. I was always like, \u2018Let her rest, let her recover.\u2019 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, but she\u2019s a problem to them, so she\u2019s sort of tucked away. I think it\u2019s a very strong first 50 pages. I\u2019m thinking about working with Walter to see what the rest of the story would be.\u201d<\/p>\n
“It would not be running around air shafts,” she added. “It would be a very different kind of Alien with a really good script. Scary.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, if Weaver does decide to reprise her most iconic role, it sounds like she’ll be playing Ripley without the use of de-ageing technology. If this is the case, we assume the events of both David Fincher’s Alien 3 – which killed Ripley off – and Alien: Resurrection – which brought her back as a clone – will be ignored.<\/p>\n
This would make a lot more sense than Ripley showing up in Romulus’ timeline, since she would have been in cryosleep right up until the events of James Cameron’s Aliens.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I love what he’s done with the character,”\u00a0Weaver\u00a0went on. “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<\/p>\n
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp attempted to get an Alien movie starring Weaver and Michael Biehn (Hicks) off the ground a few years ago, but the project ended up being scrapped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent rumor\u00a0that the next Alien movie might\u00a0be set to bring back Sigourney Weaver to play a de-aged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,84863,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-194247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-it-seems-there-may-have-been-some-truth-to-the-recent-rumor-that-sigourney-weaver-is-planning-to-return-to-the-alien-franchise-as-ellen-ripley-after-all","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194247","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=194247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}