{"id":333062,"date":"2025-12-24T09:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333062\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:35:16","slug":"sigourney-weaver-thankful-for-sci-fi-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333062\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver Thankful For Sci-Fi Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sigourney Weaver recently spoke with Empire<\/a> about her long and illustrious career \u2013 and how sci-fi is a huge part of it. In the process, she singled out her appearance in the upcoming Star Wars movie The Mandalorian and Grogu as being demonstrative of what Lucasfilm\u2019s new approach to the franchise is \u2014 standalone movies that don\u2019t necessarily try to be the biggest film events of the year, but ones that serve as satisfying experiences on their own.<\/p>\n

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Sigourney Weaver stated that she had no intention of joining another major science fiction franchise after iconic turns in Alien, Ghostbusters, and Avatar,\u00a0but she was drawn in to the franchise thanks to the strength of the script for her character, despite her unfamiliarity with the franchise:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI didn\u2019t ever imagine that I would enter the Star Wars world, but what\u2019s interesting about Star Wars now is they\u2019re no longer trying to do the Star Wars\u00a0to end all\u00a0Star Wars. They\u2019re letting the universe exist, and tell[ing] really interesting stories within that.<\/p>\n

I think Jon Favreau thought, \u2018Okay, we want this very strong character. Let\u2019s make it a woman.\u2019 I\u2019m not sure it was supposed to be a woman. I think again, these days, they often think, \u2018What do I need to do to make this seem more timely?\u2019, and now, because women are doing everything, hooray for us.<\/p>\n

[But] I just fell in love with the script and said, \u2018I don\u2019t know anything about this world.\u2019 Jon said, \u2018Well, you can watch the series,\u2019 and I said, \u2018Oh, there\u2019s a series?!’\u201d<\/p>\n

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Weaver\u2019s quote may be interpreted as though Jon Favreau originally wrote the part for a male actor, but left it open enough for actresses to step into the part. In any case, more of Sigourney Weaver anywhere is a gift \u2013 and she agreed in another interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>. She noted how thankful she was to be able to run into lots of science fiction fans in person with her appearance at Star Wars Celebration:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was at the Star Wars Celebration in Tokyo, where you walk out on that stage, and there are thousands of people there with those lightsabers and stuff \u2014 my god! I mean, what energy! I\u2019m so proud to be part of the whole sci-fi universe. It\u2019s like we\u2019re our own planet\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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She then went on:<\/p>\n

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\u201cSome people think science fiction is just special effects. And it\u2019s not. It\u2019s so much more about dreaming about what could happen in another world, in another time. I mean, of course, we see that some of these big franchises are hit and miss. If you try to pay off a franchise too many times, it stops working. Mandalorian is a good example of staying in the universe but letting these shooting stars go out in these different directions. So I\u2019m delighted to be in The Mandalorian.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Mandalorian and Grogu will be released in theaters on May 22, 2026. The film is directed by Jon Favreau, who also co-wrote the script with Dave Filoni. The film stars Pedro Pascal as Din Djarin, Sigourney Weaver as Colonel Ward, and Jeremy Allen White as Rotta the Hutt, among others. Ludwig G\u00f6ransson will compose the film\u2019s score.<\/p>\n

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Grant has been a fan of\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he\u2019s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net<\/a>. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN\u2019s The Resistance Broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver recently spoke with Empire about her long and illustrious career \u2013 and how sci-fi is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,23067,2839,84388,2591,91152,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-333062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-lucasfilm","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-sigourney-weaver","12":"tag-star-wars","13":"tag-the-mandalorian-and-grogu","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333062","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=333062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}