While the rest of us were celebrating Alien Day yesterday, Total Film released a new interview with Sigourney Weaver (via Variety) that was sure to put a damper on any fans out there still holding a hope for the possibility of Neil Blomkamp returning to finish his Alien 5.
Speaking to Total Film for their upcoming issue, she told the outlet that the chances of her returning to reprise the role of Ellen Ripley were not very likely!
“There are all kinds of younger actors taking this kind of role. And there was an Alien [film] that I really wanted to do with Neill Blomkamp and we didn’t get to do that, but, you know, that ship has sailed. I’m very happy doing what I’m doing. I put in my time in space!”
Back in September 2022, long-time Alien series producer Walter Hill told The Hollywood Reporter that Disney had no interest in continuing the story of Ellen Ripley. Speaking of his own attempt to get an Alien 5 off the ground, along with fellow producer David Giler, Hill told the website that:
“We took a shot at that a couple of years back with Sigourney. But that was back when Aliens was still at Fox. The people at Disney, who now control Aliens, have expressed no interest in going down that road. I had an idea for a good story with the Ripley character and Sigourney.”
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Is Gibson's novel similar to the screenplay? I heard the audio drama version and it was OK. All the while, I was imagining something like Blade Runner in space, e.g., all protagonists surviving and finding themselves in a large space city populated by various groups, with eggs secretly collected from the craft by covert groups working with company officials, etc.
Maybe they can do something like that in mini-series form. That could also give a lot of room for more characters and some world-building.
yes.
People in despair making profoundly naive choices is a wonderful fuel for drama. Always has been.
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Seeing engineers get doused in black cleansing lotion was pretty cool. Apparently the lotion does whatever the writer wants though, such as manifesting cupcakes with sprinkles and conjuring toasters. Fiendishly inventive. 🧁
And frankly, one suicide bomber's not how you overthrow an oppressive regime, nor's exposing their crimes.
Most likely even if you did and somehow it affected their public relations that much it made their name shunned, another would rise up and take their place, as we see in Alien Resurrection.
Most of the most powerful institutions and the large companies that exist today are deeply corrupt, the real only way you stop them from existing's by destroying the infrastructure that allows them to exist in the first place, that's extremely difficult to portray with any authenticity and not a ton of naivety in film.
- newt was more interesting as a corpse.
- fincher's movie is wonderful
- engineers were a bad idea
- david is really neat and covenant is pretty fun.
- Ripley as a character is at her best when she's pushed to her limit.
- Weaver already did one attempt at a comeback, no harm in doing one more.
Franchises, in hollywood, never really end.
God knows Alien 3 was an attempt at that.. It didn't really stick as such. The sequels keep on coming.
But wouldn't it be neat, if there was an actual attempt at an "alternate ending" that would probably get to "stick" due to it being in an alternate timeline...
..without all that engineer nonsense?
Very messy but fun. Kinda turns Hicks into a Carpenter style protagonist "very angry man with few words to say and lots to do".
Like, the whole thing with Burke was that he was acting alone and the company did actually kind of need to toe the line of some interplanetary laws. They weren't all powerful. And since the marine loss was a military one, not corporate, and Burke's activities would probably be in the Sulaco logs, I don't see what more she actually needed to do to make their life hell.
They should de-age and AI voice Michael Biehn, Sigourney Weaver, Lance Hendriksen and Carrie Henn. Then they can all wear suicide bomber vests and blow up the company.
That's the REAL Alien 3.
This army shall rise.
One day there might be a half dozen, even.
On a serious note: What interests me about this project isn't really the fanbait of "oh everyone's Back!"
We've already had that.
There are several adaptations of Gibson's script where the characters are all alive.
The real interest is that visual of Ripley with the suicide bomber vest. That's some First Reformed type shit.
Extremist Ripley who is old and so angry at the Company that she's willing to go that far to take them on? That's a compelling take to me.
All the mutant stuff is fun in a pulpy way too, but this is the main draw to me.
a animated movie level similar to here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT82BZJSY7w&t=2s
there is still hope without her playing in physically ,
Neill and Walter can still do their alien with Ripley (not to mention that she is present in the Alien audiobook stories) with a high level animation like this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT82BZJSY7w&t=2s
Bishop or bust
Maybe one day we'll get a proper sequel to Aliens with AI-voiced deepfakes of young Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn and Carrie Henn.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/james-earl-jones-signed-darth-vader-voice-rights-to-disney-for-ai-use/
I've heard Luke's voice was synthesized using an AI system. I think that's what they're talking about... but I haven't looked into it myself to see if it's true...
Edit: I should specify, Luke's voice in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
Luke looks like a soulless husk in Mando.
awful.
https://twitter.com/Kable_10/status/1488804177463726082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1488804177463726082%7Ctwgr%5Ef46a3a47a9e55a6e159b4eb921f6b335bb9ccb05%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.esquire.com%2Fentertainment%2Ftv%2Fa38971109%2Fcgi-luke-skywalker-mandalorian-book-of-boba-fett%2F
No matter if one like it or not, AI will be used to recreate humans to act in movies as younger selfs, or bringing back characters who the original actor dont live anymore. See disney and warner bros doing it and we are just in the start of the AI era.
Leia in rouge one, grand tarkin, thrawn is rumored to be AI in the new upcoming tv series, Darth vaders voice is now pure AI made, Luke in the mandalorian is a AI character etc.
I wouldnt be surprised if Disney in the future will use AI even further in making star wars movies and might do with alien franchise, so a sequel to Aliens with Newt, Hicks, and Ripley could easily be done with AI, voices even easier to recreate with AI.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Alien-Out-of-the-Shadows-Podcast/B08GC2361R
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Alien:_Out_of_the_Shadows_(audio_drama)
Eventually, with that plus AI, licensing, and computer-generated images, video, and audio, I think no ship will have to sail.
Graeme Revell score..
https://youtu.be/CTM_5suY9wg?t=42
Disagree. Danny Elfman score kicked serious ass
exactly like how i remember it. a great time in alien history. no notes.
The most impressive thing about that film is almost zero studio interference
https://media.tenor.com/2u3z7Pj29kUAAAAC/the-chronicles-of-riddick-riddick.gif
ok time to get some repairs.
malfunctioning.
.....
When one note is off..
it eventually destroys the whole symphony.
Alien Isolation dropped in 2014.
October 6th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Isolation
It's the cross we chose to bear, well the cross chose me actually and the connections came rolling in. 😂