Sigourney Weaver - She Won't Be Back

[dude]

Stating the obvious here, obviously, but we may as well hear it straight from the horses mouth. In a video interview with the MTV Movies Blog she states she wont be involved with the film but expects a classy film from Ridley Scott.

At the risk of sounding redundant, this has always been rather obvious, Sigourney is 59 years old, too old to be playing 29 year old Warrant Officer Ripley again. Not to mention it's a prequel, which means by all rights none of the crew members of the Nostromo should have any involvement whatsoever.

[BlackWatch]

Not to mention it's a prequel, which means by all rights none of the crew members of the Nostromo should have any involvement whatsoever.

Crazier shit has happened. But I doubt Ridley will want to go back to any of those characters anyway.

[metalalien]

Thank god! Not sure how you guys feel about it but every movie after Aliens has just made me dislike her greatly. Her story ended at the conclusion of ALIENS. The series is called ALIEN not Ripley.

Seriously, when she got to redo the deleted flame thrower scene from first movie in Alien Resurrection with HERSELF, I almost threw my popcorn at the screen.

[Sebastian]

Strange how I never made that parallel before. I still don't see what's wrong with that scene.

[dude]

It was never the most visually pleasing scene.

[beckmen]

Good. Don't want her back. She was good in the first three movies, pointless in the 4th one, and would be even more pointless in the prequel.

If you wanna throw her a bone and have her do a computer voice and then kind of mask it a little or something (Mark Hamil doing the voice of Merlin in the WC movie, for instance), I am OK with that, though.

Of, and the fucked-up clones scene just feels out of place in an Alien movie, which is why I excused it in my fanedit (both, actually...my 1998 VHS edit and the 2008 DVD edit). Never liked that scene.

[LargeLeader]

Her story ended at the conclusion of ALIENS.

Hahaha oh wow.


Thank christ she's not coming back.

[RoaryUK]

Her story ended at the conclusion of ALIENS. The series is called ALIEN not Ripley.

The series ended with Alien3, a film David Fincher deserves much credit for after all the shit FOX put him through, a film which has since totally redeemed itself with the assembly cut.  As for the Ripley/Alien thing, you can blame James Cameron for that, he wrote just about all of Ripley's character and insisted she be in it.  Hell, they were even gonna call it Alien 2: Ripley's Adventure, until Walter Hill came in with the idea for the Colonial Marines.

[metalalien]

The series ended with Alien3, a film David Fincher deserves much credit for after all the shit FOX put him through, a film which has since totally redeemed itself with the assembly cut.  As for the Ripley/Alien thing, you can blame James Cameron for that, he wrote just about all of Ripley's character and insisted she be in it.  Hell, they were even gonna call it Alien 2: Ripley's Adventure, until Walter Hill came in with the idea for the Colonial Marines.

Well I give Alien3 lots of credit as a stand alone movie. I give it none at all as a sequel. Just my opinion. As for Aliens.... it's well balanced with the Ripley and Alien stuff. Cameron was clearly trying to give her character closure, which the later films completely ignored.

I'm ok with the first two movies, with only minor and completely forgivable nit picks for Aliens.

Alien3 and Resurrection, if I had my way, would only be bad dreams in hypersleep and not part of the continuum.

[Neltharion]

Well duh. Its a prequel, she does not know about it, neither does any of the crew (save Ash). I thought this was a given?

[fitzley]

With Fox...nothing is a given. But yeah, there was never any logical way she could be involved except as a character that is not Ripley.

[Masked_Awesome]

Since it's a prequel- DUH I'd have a cow is Ripley returned.

BUT, I think everyone saying no more Ripley needs to rethink things.  I mean... we end Alien Resurrection with an AMAZING character.  She's overcome her fears, faced death and loss, and even been KILLED by these things... she's been through it all, and now has a second chance, and is stronger and well equipt and ANGRY and probably WANTING to do something about it finally!  Add the whole "she's PART alien, PART of her enemy" into that mix and I think we have an awesome character that deserves a proper finish to her story arc.  Even if she spent the majority of the film in the shadows or background, maybe only LEADING some people... I think they're dropping the ball on an amazing opportunity for a "final" chapter here, as they've built up a PERFECT character to bring it all to an end.

THAT SAID- I obviously want NONE of that in this movie.  As someone said above, the series is called ALIEN, and they are very much the focus here.  And being a prequel, I want it to be just that... a prequel...

BUT- I hope it's CONNECTED to the first film. Not just a prior event.  It's be cool to see something about the derelict ship, or possibly Weyland-Yutani's first encounter with it (I'm assuming they KNEW the thing was there since they already had orders for Ash to keep the thing). Just something very connected.

[dude]

Well duh. Its a prequel, she does not know about it, neither does any of the crew (save Ash). I thought this was a given?

Stating the obvious here, obviously, but we may as well hear it straight from the horses mouth.

[Ataraxia]

I just hope they don't fill it with crappy, teenage actors like they did with AVP:R. Though, with Ridley Scott on board, I don't think that'll happen now...

[BlackWatch]

Alien3 and Resurrection, if I had my way, would only be bad dreams in hypersleep and not part of the continuum.

With all due respect, as I'm not trying to disrespect you at all metalalien, but I've always found that to be a rabid fanboy's wet dream. It's a horrible idea and would degrade the entire series if we all of a sudden found out two of the four films in the series were "bad dreams". You could say Alien ended well enough that we didn't need Aliens just as easily. In truth each film, aside from Resurrection, continued the story in a great new direction, with Alien 3 culminating the Ripley story arch and ending it, for all intents and purposes, with finality. Then Resurrection came along and pissed on all that. But to simply caulk those two films up as dreams while in hypersleep is a lazy and unimaginative cop-out.