Movies | February 22, 2009 | 14 comments

Will Ripley rise again?

source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/02/20/will-ripley-rise-again-sigourney-weaver-on-alien-saga-i...

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It’s official: Ellen Ripley is the most badass female movie character of all time. So now the only question that remains is a simple one: Will we ever see her again? “You know, Fox was going to do another one,” Sigourney Weaver said to us recently while accepting Ripley’s honor. “They had it written. Joss Whedon wrote it.”

As Weaver remembered it, however, the script from the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” mastermind just didn’t rock her world. “It took place on earth,” she explained. “Which, I have to say, just really didn’t interest me. And I just felt that every time we went out there, we needed to have a really original piece.”

Which is a shame, because Weaver said that at the time she was perfectly willing to take on the Aliens once again. “I was all for going back to the original planet; I thought that would be interesting,” she explained. “But I was alone in that; we couldn’t really agree on what would be interesting.”

Soon afterwards, Fox turned their attention to casting a different leading character opposite the Alien, and Weaver’s days as Ripley may have been shut down for good. “Once they were committed to ‘Alien vs. Predator’…” she trailed off. “If you don’t respect the creature - I haven’t seen them - but it just becomes too hum-drum.”

Still, Weaver told us that although she isn’t sitting by the phone these days, she does feel like Ripley still needs a proper send-off. And if somebody could ever write a great Alien script (that presumably wasn’t set on planet Earth), she’d be willing to read it.

“Even in twenty years, if someone came to me and said, ‘This is the story, and it’s a really interesting story using that world’ [I’d do it]. I think it’s an amazing saga,” the 59-year-old actress reasoned. “I don’t sit around thinking, ‘Oh I want to do another Alien,’ but it does feel slightly unfinished to me. But that has a lot to do with Fox, so it wouldn’t surprise me if another generation at Fox, looking at what they have, would [make it work].”

“There have been lots of ‘Alien’ impersonators, but there is something about [that first] one,” she said of Ripley’s original film, as well as the franchise it spawned. “I just don’t feel that it’s quite finished.”
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14 comments // Will Ripley rise again?

  • remanns
  • ocanada
  • itdango
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      itdango  

    • if they think we'll spend money to see it, they'll make another.

      the first two are among the greatest sci-fi films of all time. the third was grimy and not what i expected, but wasn't bad at all. the fourth, bleck.

      That's it man, game over man, game over!
      - Hudson

    • 4 years ago
  • PajamaDan
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      PajamaDan  

    • I would love it. I don't know why,... but I like all the Alien films. Guilty pleasure, I guess. Have these Aliens been in 7 movies already? Count 'em.

    • 4 years ago
  • SW2
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      SW2  

    • One of the great film characters. I reckon they will find a way to squeeze more money out of this franchise.

      It is Science Fiction, anything can happen and be explained.

    • 4 years ago
  • oly90808
  • scarlettcutie_01
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      scarlettcutie_01  

    • lol TabulaRasa I was thinking the same thing until my computer downloaded the picture to the article; I wouldn't mind seeing another alien..maybe with some kind of new twist....who knows maybe they will redo the series with a new director/writer on down the road... or do the typical hollywood move and have Ripley come back to advise some new actress who continues the battle

    • 4 years ago
  • TabulaRasa
  • Sexirobot
  • tommytripper
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      tommytripper  

    • i loved Alien and aliens.... but please do everyone a service and leave this dead.... the last 2 films alien 3 was ok, not great not bad... but fun... and the last offering was a steaming pile of....

      and as for the VS films the requiem was a mixed bag
      and the first one was this yuppie adventure into the PG world of pointless crap.

      just leave it as it is... i do not think i could take another butchering

    • 4 years ago
  • ilikeike
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      ilikeike  

    • yep, itd'd still be some comforting the fear of these uncertain times crap...too bad....scifi's no fun after realization of one-way entropy.

    • 4 years ago
  • n3mi5y5
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      n3mi5y5  

    • Ellen Ripley is badass, but she had her send-off In Alien 3 (Spoiler but if you havent seen it theres something wrong with you if you're a scifi fan. Jumping into the pit of fire holding the newly hatched queen close to her body so the company couldnt grab it, or the queen escaping its fate..... It should have stopped there, because Alien Resurrection was a horrible piece of crap.

    • 4 years ago
  • aliquid_
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      aliquid_  

    • I love all the Aliens and especially love Ripley but....I don't want one of my favorite series to become what happened to the new "Indiana Jones" movie - I have the Indiana Jones collection but for some reason since the new movie was a waste of making - I don't even want to watch the old ones I grew up on and loved ....

    • 4 years ago
  • evertre
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      evertre  

    • I just recently watched the whole quadrilogy...very good series, indeed.

      I wouldn't mind one last 'Alien' movie at all.

    • 4 years ago
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