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Sigourney Weaver explains what she would've expected from Alien 5
It's been a long time since we ever thought about an Alien 5. Alien Resurrection pretty much killed it, and now Ridley Scott is going back in time to do a prequel. That means no more Ripley—but Sigourney Weaver still has ideas about the kind of Alien 5 she wanted to make.
"You know, it would be interesting for me to go back now and revisit the character, an older Ripley," Weaver said in a interview Oct. 16 in Beverly Hills, Calif while promoting The Alien Anthology, which hits Blu Ray Oct. 26. "I certainly think the audience would be fine with it. To show how capable an older person is in something difficult, in a situation that's difficult. In terms of the character, it would be awesome to be able to play a woman like Ripley at my age but I can't really see how to do that. I think it's probably a better idea to do the prequel and start afresh with only whatever the alien community might be."
For those of you who don't remember, or blocked it out of memory, Alien Resurrection introduced a Ripley cloned with DNA mixed with the creature. She was destined to return to earth 200 years after Aliens and Alien 3. That's what we'd been waiting for all along—Ripley on earth!
"We were thinking about doing this fifth one and I didn't really want to go ahead and do it on Earth," Weaver revealed. "So we kind of left the sentence unfinished. There's something slightly unfinished to me about it. I wasn't too keen to come to Earth. I always feel that science-fiction when it comes to Earth, it's a little [Weaver mimics yawning]. I wanted to go back to the original planet that the space jockey brought the eggs from and go back into the alien world rather than have the alien arrive in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower."
That Eiffel Tower idea sounds pretty cool, though. Get a queen wrapped around the scaffolding. Weaver won't go there though. "I think I was part of what put the kibosh on that," she said. "I think actually after four different interpretations, I wanted to take more time to take stock of what the opportunities were. I think it's great that Ridley is the person who's going to make the prequel because I think there are other opportunities there. It's wonderful to reinvigorate that world with a fresh perspective."
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I think that, unfortunately, the Alien franchise killed itself. The original Alien movie was the perfect horror movie and its sequel, against all odds was an even better shoot-em-up. Two classic movies that any fan would be proud to own. However, they went and killed off the best character in the opening sequence of Alien 3 (Newt) and put the seal on what was to become, in many peoples eyes, the biggest stinker ever. Alien 3 was a plodding attempt to cash in on the originals vibrancy and freshness. Now, it seems that it is sinking into the same cliche ridden territory of its biggest rival, Predator. Anybody unlucky enough to have watched AVP Requiem will know what I mean. All realism and integrity gone to be replaced by gratuitist slasher rubbish. No real plot, just lots of teens running around. Not to mention a hospital full of pregnant women being injected by the Aliens. And what was that all about at the end? The introduction of another humanoid race. Why do they always have to make everything humanoid?
Leave Alien alone to rest in peace. It will never be equalled, let alone bettered.