All female cast in Alien films are young women. I would like to see elderly women in Alien movie but no Weaver. Ripley is cooked for me.
My idea for the movie made this morning:
Elderly lady. Damaged by life ex-military who works as only security officer on ORION (small scientific spaceship) owned by WY. She earns extra money for her retirement or she's already retired but has nothing left to do on Earth or other colonies. No family. She doesn't have good relationship with the crew but she's there because of the security protocol. She's bitter person who secretly drinks. However, she likes synthetic IGOR (servant in Gothic stories).
Orion comes back from the mission and received SOS from scientific space station belongs to non-WY corporation. They don't have to go there (different company) but scientist know each other and Orion's person in charge decides to check it out. At the same time mercenaries (mostly with military background) hired by WY head towards the station and have no choice but to invade Orion and take control over the ship. Female protagonist goes to the cryo-sleep just for few hours (it's part of her plan). Mercenary leader doesn't want to kill the crew. Together they board the station which seems to be abandoned. Mother is off line or works but cannot say a lot because of agenda. She pisses everyone off or as A.I helps and acts against WY protocol. Some mercenaries meet enormous GOLIATH (station's bodyguard type synthetic) during exploring and it doesn't end up good for them. He also knows a lot what happened. Our grandma wakes up and joins the party. And then everything goes south because ... . It's just an idea. Nothing else.