If you were to ask every fan of sci-fi cinema to list the genre’s ten most iconic characters, at least 99% of them would feature Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley. A lot of people thought that the Alien franchise couldn’t succeed without its legendary figurehead, and while they were definitely correct in the case of the Alien vs. Predator crossovers, Ridley Scott’s prequels Prometheus and Covenant did a solid job in expanding the mythology.
Weaver was once poised to reprise her career-defining role in District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s movie that would have disregarded the third and fourth installments to act as a direct sequel to James Cameron’s Aliens, with Michael Biehn also set to return as Hicks. The studio ultimately favored Scott’s vision in the end, causing the proposed Alien 5 to drift off into the vast abyss of development hell.
However, the rights to the franchise are now in the hands of Disney, and Scott admitted recently that another new entry in the long-running series was in the tentative early stages, presumably to be released under the Mouse House’s 20th Century Studio banner. Insider Daniel Richtman is claiming that Alien‘s new owners are working on a spinoff focused on a young Ripley, which if true won’t go down too well with longtime fans.
Weaver might be 71 years old, but she’s never definitively ruled herself out from making a comeback, and if Disney move forward on a Ripley movie that doesn’t involve the three-time Academy Award nominee in some capacity then there’s going to be an uproar. One possible avenue could be using the Ghostbusters star to bookend the narrative as an older version of the character while her successor carries the meat of the story, but there’s got to be better ideas out there than making a Ripley-centric Alien without Sigourney Weaver.
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