Sigourney Weaver has read “quite extraordinary” script for new ‘Alien’ movie
Sigourney Weaver has revealed that a possible new Alien movie could materialise.
While Weaver has previously been reluctant to return to the franchise as the beloved character Ripley, producer Walter Hill has now written 50 pages of a script that has seemingly changed her stance.
Speaking at the New York Comic Con on October 10th, Weaver shared with fans (via The Hollywood Reporter), “Walter Hill is a very good friend of mine, and he wrote 50 pages where Ripley would be now, and they are quite extraordinary.”
Although whether the movie will happen remains unknown, she confirmed that a meeting had took place with Disney, adding, “I don’t know if it’s going to happen, but I have had a meeting with Fox, Disney, or whoever it is now.”
Weaver continued, “I said I have never felt the need. I was always like, ‘Let her rest, let her recover.’ But 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.”
Hill is yet to finish the script, but Weaver is eager to see where the story could potentially go, adding of her character’s arc, “She’s a problem to them, so she’s sort of tucked away. Anyway, I think it’s a very strong first 50 pages, and I’m thinking about working with Walter to see what the rest of the story would be.”
At the same discussion at New York Comic Con, Weaver also reflected on her breakout role in Ridley Scott’s 1979 original, sharing, “I never really thought about genres,” and she believed, most importantly, it “was a very concise script”.
Weaver also noted, “I think there was probably some dismay in the cast that this complete unknown who’d never really made a movie before was going to be the survivor. And the reason I was the survivor was our writers, Walter Hill and David Giler, thought no one will ever imagine that the survivor will be a woman.”
Weaver last appeared in an Alien movie in 1997 in Alien: Resurrection, and has starred in four films in the series. The most recent movie in the franchise was Alien: Romulus in 2024, directed by Fede Alvarez.
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