News Sigourney Weaver Sigourney Weaver Knows What Ripley’s Up to Now The actor teased a new Alien series script at NYCC. By Molly Templeton | Published on October 14, 2025 Credit: 20th Century Fox Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: 20th Century Fox Depending on how you feel about the Alien movie timeline, the question of Ripley’s future may seem pretty solidly answered. But Sigourney Weaver knows something the rest of us don’t. At New York Comic Con, Weaver said she’s read part of a new script from Alien series producer and screenwriter Walter Hill. “Walter Hill is a very good friend of mine, and he wrote 50 pages where Ripley would be now, and they are quite extraordinary. I don’t know if it’s going to happen, but I have had a meeting with Fox, Disney, or whoever it is now,” she told the audience at the con. “I said I have never felt the need. I was always like, ‘Let her rest, let her recover.’ But what Walter has written seems so true to me as very much about the society that would incarcerate someone who has tried to help mankind.” Fifty pages is not a full screenplay, and this is no guarantee another Weaver-led Alien film will happen. At the end of Alien 3, Ripley dove into a furnace in order to kill the alien bursting from her body. In Alien Resurrection, she’s a clone who we last saw looking down at Earth from space (alternate ending notwithstanding). But various tie-in media give the character a different narrative. And this isn’t the first time a future for Ripley has been envisioned. District 9 director Neill Blomkamp was set to make a new Alien movie with Weaver, but that didn’t pan out. At the NYCC panel, Weaver spoke at length about the making of Alien and Aliens, and about how the reported tension on the set of Aliens was less to do with director James Cameron and more to do with how much everyone loved original Alien director Ridley Scott. Weaver said, “I think Terminator had come out, but I didn’t get to see it, and he and Jim kept setting up screenings for the crew at the end of the day, and they never went. So they did have an attitude, and it did take a while, actually. I remember, because I loved Jim right away, it was very easy for me to go, ‘Listen, yeah, I love Ridley, too, but this guy wrote this, and he has this film The Terminator, and he knows what he’s doing. He’s a natural.’ He impressed them gradually, and by the end, of course, they were devoted to him.” If there were a new Ellen Ripley movie, who would direct? Perhaps that’s a question for Weaver’s next meeting with Disney.[end-mark] The post Sigourney Weaver Knows What Ripley’s Up to Now appeared first on Reactor.