Iconic actress Sigourney Weaver has confirmed that she has ‘had a meeting’ with Disney about reprising her role as Ellen Ripley in another “Alien” installment.
She also expressed interest in working with Walter Hill, who produced Ridley Scott’s original 1979 film, to create a “very different kind of Alien”.
Appearing at an “Alien” reunion panel at New York Comic Con on Friday, she tells EW:
“Walter Hill is a very good friend of mine and he wrote 50 pages of where Ripley would be now and they are quite extraordinary. So I don’t know if it’s going to happen, but I have had a meeting with Fox – Disney, or whoever it is now.”
She adds that, aside from Neill Blomkamp’s unrealised “Aliens” sequel,” she hasn’t been interested in bringing the character back to the big screen again:
“Except for Neil, I’ve never felt the need to reprise the role. I was always like, ‘Let her rest! Let her recover!’. But what Walter has written is so…first of all, [it] seems so true to me. It’s 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.
I’m thinking about working with Walter to see what the rest of the story would be. It would not be running around air shafts. It would be a very different kind of Alien with a really good script. Scary.”
She adds that “the alien does show up” in Hill’s pages, too:
“It’s inevitable, but 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. ‘All right, people, let’s do business!’ So Walter has it.”
Weaver recently had high praise for FX’s “Alien: Earth” series, saying it “exploded some of the themes that have always been part of the Alien series, and I think it’s beautifully cast and beautifully done.”
