(KTLA) — Although the first season of FX’s hit series “Alien: Earth” just ended, there’s already some exciting news in the world of “Alien” — and it could mean the return of the show’s most iconic character, Ellen Ripley.
Actor Sigourney Weaver, 76, recently joined the cast of “Alien: Earth” for a panel at New York Comic Con, where the three-time Oscar-nominated veteran revealed she had met with Disney, which owns the franchise, to discuss a return.
Weaver said she was impressed by producer Walter Hill’s 50 new script pages which she called “pretty extraordinary.”
“I said I never felt the need. I always said, ‘Let her rest, let her recover,'” Weaver told the crowd. “But what Walter wrote seems so true to me that he talks about a society that would imprison someone who tried to help humanity.”
Although Weaver admitted she doesn’t know if it will actually happen, the “Avatar: Fire and Ash” star said she was “thinking about working with Walter to see what the rest of the story would be.”
Weaver, who has appeared in more than 70 films, starred in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror masterpiece “Alien” in 1978 and reprized 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,” although she played a clone of Ellen Ripley, in the role of the character. apparently dead at the end of “Alien 3”.
The beloved and versatile Weaver was nominated for a best actress Oscar for “Aliens,” a rarity for a role in a sci-fi action film.
