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Sigourney Weaver Hopes This Unfinished Alien Script Can Bring Ripley Back To The Franchise

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Sigourney Weaver is now interested in returning to the Alien franchise as Ripley, assuming this currently-unfinished screenplay ever gets a green light.

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Madrid. Sigourney Weaver, Alien's indelible face since 1979, played for the last time the iconic Lieutenant Ripley in Alien: Resurrection, film released in 1997.

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Years after Alien, the American actress could bring Ellen Ripley back to life in a new script by Walter Hill.

Sigourney Weaver glimpsed a possible return to the Alien universe during a franchise meeting panel in New York Comic Con. After his latest appearance as Ellen Ripley in David Fincher's Alien 3, Weaver mentioned that producer Walter Hill wrote 50 pages exploring where Ripley would be currently, and called the proposal [...] The post Sigourney Weaver claims to be open to reinterpret Ripley in Alien was first published in Information Focus.

The actress would have met Disney to discuss the story proposed by Walter Hill, historical producer of the saga.

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Film Stories broke the news in on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.
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