Weaver Says Alien Maxed Out

Posted February 25, 2007 4:03 PM Darkness 14 Comments

It’s been a while since we’ve had any Alien 5 news but Sigourney Weaver mentioned A5 briefly in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. Dark Horizons reports:

Talking with Entertainment Weekly, actress Sigourney Weaver says that despite teaming up with James Cameron again for his “Avatar” project, don’t expect anymore “Alien” films. “I love the character, but I think the monster, once they did the other film (Alien vs. Predator), which I never saw, but that really maxes our monster out” says Weaver.

Thanks to PlanetAvP for the news.

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Bum Burster
Posted Mar 18, 2007, 11:48:48 PM

It would be extremely short sighted to pretend that the aliens can live long without good characters, and without any good arc. What made the force of a franchise that is getting so badly juiced now was the bond between Ripley AND the creatures. Although this is AVP Galaxy, so obviously, it's supposed to hold some kind of bias in favor of the showdown between the two species, seeing monsters fight is right for a few minutes of fanfilm, but it falls short on the long term, where what matters is characters and story. Had the series started with AVP, they would have never lifted off as they did. An ALIEN flick that's just about the aliens is pointless, and just worth satisfying a temporary need to see the monsters again, in order to sell more merchandise.
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Elder Predator
Posted Mar 13, 2007, 09:31:34 AM

Weaver SHUT UP about aliens the predators are the dominent ones
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uhhhhh
Posted Mar 02, 2007, 10:13:32 AM

Also have to Bring in Geiger, obviously
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uhhhhh
Posted Mar 02, 2007, 10:02:11 AM

Why not take that and apply it to the first encounter of the Space Jockies, finally rounding out the film once and for all. Imagine THAT.
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Sgt Apone
Posted Feb 28, 2007, 11:25:29 AM

This is what Aliens needs: take the formula for "Batman Begins" and apply that to Aliens. Get a director who is known for good DRAMA - not just great visuals. James Cameron just happens to have both qualities in abundance. So we've got a director, now you hire a screenwriter who is also KNOWN FOR DRAMA - NOT SCI FI EXTRAVAGANZAS. Tell this guy to start over, show us mankind's first encounter with the aliens, as if Ripley had never existed. Tell this writer and director that we're going for dark and gritty realism, almost documentary feeling - NOT slick, flashy Star Trek sci-fi! Imagine the natural, muted colors, the hand-held camerawork, the real human stories behind the characters, and most of all, the SLOW BURN of the story. Remember last year's "The Descent"? Hey, I just thought of the perfect director: Alfonso Cuaron. Watch the recent flick "Children of Men" and tell me you don't think Cuaron's style of filmmaking would KILL in the Aliens universe.
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Sgt Apone
Posted Feb 28, 2007, 11:23:43 AM

I remember getting a huge thrill reading the Dark Horse comics and at the end of one of the series Ripley gets a hero's intro, holding an impossibly huge collection of guns. So there IS this feeling that Ripley makes it "real Aliens", as opposed to a spinoff. However, I do think that it IS time to let her go and get the series a restart.
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Kevin
Posted Feb 26, 2007, 06:37:43 PM

Why do we need her anyway the main charactor is the alien. Nobody cares who he kills and nobody is going to see her anyway she should have stayed dead in 3. She ruined the whole movie in 4. We dont need the same old actors we need NEW alien movies.
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RakaiThwei
Posted Feb 26, 2007, 05:24:08 PM

I actually agree with Hicks on this one here... I am getting ill of her as well. All she does is whine and moan about the Alien-- and she said she hasn't seen AvP. Point is.. no one like an old crochety whiner.
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Danger Close
Posted Feb 26, 2007, 01:35:55 PM

Ripley died in Alien 3... end of her, not the alien.
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Cihbar
Posted Feb 26, 2007, 01:23:45 PM

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gyro
Posted Feb 26, 2007, 12:30:34 PM

she is getting to old to be a hot chick
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beeko
Posted Feb 26, 2007, 11:46:29 AM

i agree with corporal hicks, she only winges & moans about it now, but a bet if they threw her 20 million she would soon say positive things
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Ermac
Posted Feb 26, 2007, 04:33:26 AM

She has a good point though. The Aliens have been bled to death.
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Corporal Hicks
Posted Feb 26, 2007, 04:11:28 AM

I'm sick of her. I really am.
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