(KTLA) — Though the first season of FX’s hit series “Alien: Earth” just wrapped, there’s already exciting news in the world of “Alien” — and it could mean the return of the series’ most iconic character, Ellen Ripley.
Actor Sigourney Weaver, 76, recently joined “Alien: Earth” cast members for a panel at New York Comic Con, where the three-time Academy Award-nominated veteran revealed she’s met with Disney, who owns the franchise, to discuss a return.
Weaver said she was impressed by 50 new script pages from producer Walter Hill that she called “quite extraordinary.”
“I said I have never felt the need. I was always like, ‘Let her rest, let her recover,’” Weaver told the crowd. “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.”
Though Weaver acknowledged she doesn’t know if it’ll actually happen, the “Avatar: Fire and Ash” star said she’s “thinking about working with Walter to see what the rest of the story would be.”
Weaver, who has appeared in upwards of 70 films, starred in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror masterpiece “Alien” back in 1978 and reprised the role in 1986 for James Cameron’s “Aliens,” and in David Fincher’s “Alien 3” in 1992. Weaver last appeared in 1997’s “Alien Resurrection,” though she played a clone of Ellen Ripley, as the character ostensibly died at the end of “Alien 3.”
The beloved and versatile Weaver was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for “Aliens,” a rarity for a role in a sci-fi action film.
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