ALIEN Icon Sigourney Weaver Reveals That She Is In Talks To Reprise Ripley Role

Though she stresses that nothing is officially in the works yet, Sigourney Weaver has revealed that she has spoken to Disney about potentially returning to the Alien franchise as Ellen Ripley...

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By MarkCassidy - Oct 12, 2025 01:10 PM EST

Filed Under: Alien

Source: Via SFF Gazette.com

We might just see Sigourney Weaver return to the Alien franchise after all.

The recent rumor that the next Alien movie could bring Weaver back to play a de-aged Ellen Ripley was met with a mixture of excitement and trepidation from fans of the classic sci-fi horror franchise, but Alien: Romulus director Fede Álvarez soon debunked the report as "fun gossip."

Ripley may not show up in the Romulus sequel, but it seems there may have been some truth to the rumor that the actress is thinking about revisiting her most famous role.

Weaver had the following to say during a panel appearance at New York Comic-Con over the weekend.

“[‘Alien’ producer] Walter Hill is a very good friend of mine, and he wrote 50 pages of where Ripley would be now, and they’re quite extraordinary,” Weaver on stage during a conversation moderated by Josh Horowitz. “I don’t know if it’s going to happen, but I have had a meeting with Fox or Disney…I’ve never felt the need [to reprise the role]. I was always like, ‘Let her rest, let her recover.’ 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, but she’s a problem to them, so she’s sort of tucked away. I think it’s a very strong first 50 pages. I’m thinking about working with Walter to see what the rest of the story would be.”

"It would not be running around air shafts," she added. "It would be a very different kind of Alien with a really good script. Scary.”

So, if Weaver does decide to return as Ripley, it sounds like she'll be playing the character without the use of de-ageing technology. If this is the case, we assume the events of both David Fincher's Alien 3 - which killed Ripley off - and Alien: Resurrection - which brought her back as a clone - will be ignored, and the story will pick up after the events of James Cameron's Aliens.

“But I love what he's done with the character," Weaver went on. "He really gets her strength and her anger and her humor, and it's very hard to write. It's surprisingly hard to write Ripley. Everybody makes you sound like a gym teacher. ‘All right, people, let's do business!’ So Walter has it.”

District 9 director Neill Blomkamp attempted to get an Alien movie starring Weaver and Michael Biehn (Hicks) off the ground a few years ago, but the project ended up being scrapped.

What do you make of this news? Would you like to see Weaver back as Ripley? Drop us a comment down below.

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34 Comments

TheLobster - 10/12/2025, 1:46 PM

Ugh just [frick]ing move on from the character already

McMurdo - 10/12/2025, 6:26 PM

@TheLobster - nah best decision would be to make a sequel to Aliens with a competent screenwriter.

TheLobster - 10/12/2025, 9:29 PM

@McMurdo - I wanted Neill Blomkamp‘s sequel to happen so badly back when it was teased but stupid Ridley had to force the studio to go with his crappy Covenant film smh..

However, she’s too old now man. Shes pushing 80 lmao

Mongrol - 10/12/2025, 1:50 PM

I could buy into this.

HashTagSwagg - 10/12/2025, 1:53 PM

I don't trust today's writers being capable of doing the character any justice, it will just be the usual callbacks, best they can do to honor the character is let her rest and move forward with the franchise, ditch this prequel sh1t.

McMurdo - 10/12/2025, 6:27 PM

@HashTagSwagg - Walter Hill is the one who put the finishing touches and draft on the original Obannon and Shuset script for the 1979 film.

amesjazz - 10/12/2025, 1:56 PM

Ripley is my favorite character of all time but please no more. Need to just write new characters and let her rest. The Alien universe doesn't always need a Ripley.

McMurdo - 10/12/2025, 6:28 PM

@amesjazz - um have you seen the films and the series of recent? Clearly they desperately need Ripley.

amesjazz - 10/12/2025, 6:50 PM

@McMurdo - For sure but I don't think the answer is bringing ripley back. The answer is just better writing and leaning more into Aliens! I've been waiting for space marines to make a return for years but they refuse for some reason. Annoying.

HeavyMetal4Life - 10/12/2025, 1:57 PM

Would be on board if this has a similar idea to what Blomkamp's film was going to be.

Bucky74 - 10/12/2025, 2:30 PM

@HeavyMetal4Life - Definitely, make Alien 3 and 4 a hyper-sleep dream and go from there years later. Bring back Newt and Michael Bein and more bad-ass Space Marines in a new setting with multiple Alien Queens and maybe add a "King" Xeno, hints at a Predator crossover, and TAKE MY MONEY!

Timerider - 10/12/2025, 3:37 PM

@Bucky74 - I want this too, they wake up 40 years later and they had a stowaway, and fight Aliens on earth.

HeavyMetal4Life - 10/12/2025, 3:41 PM

@Bucky74 - that all sounds great!

PartyKiller - 10/12/2025, 2:00 PM

There are some action movie roles that do not require youth. Ripley would be one. Snake Plissken would be another. All the crap sequels and reboots but no one has brought us another Plissken movie since Carpenter retreaded Escape From New York.

Plissken could've been an 80s version of The Man With No Name, a character he was modeled after.

If anyone does it, I just hope it's not a hack like David Gordon Green.

Mongrol - 10/12/2025, 2:05 PM

@PartyKiller -

I want an Old Snake film but I doubt Carpenter and Russell are up for it.

McMurdo - 10/12/2025, 6:29 PM

@Mongrol - no one will let Carpenter direct again is the problem.

ObserverIO - 10/12/2025, 2:19 PM

When I see something like Romulus I can think to myself, welp! At least the Ripley films are still good. Yes, even Resurrection is two shit-tons better than Romulus.

But now they're gonna [frick] with that too.

They better get the best director possible. Maybe just get someone who has already established themselves as being the kind of director that could do an Alien movie rather than getting some up and comer. I don't trust Disney's taste in indie directors.
Guillermo Del Toro, Darren Aronofsky, Robert Eggers, Coralie Fargeat, Panos Cosmatos, Ana Lily Amirpour, Edgar Wright, Jennifer Kent, Steve McQueen, y'know someonelike that. Someone with actual talent. A real artist.

SuperiorHeckler - 10/12/2025, 4:26 PM

@ObserverIO - Sigourney could simply say "NO" and allow the studio to re-boot with a new actress if they want. The Ripley character is an icon. Sigourney isn't running low on finances. I wish she held her legendary character at the same level of esteem as much as a nobody like myself does. 🫤

McMurdo - 10/12/2025, 6:35 PM

@ObserverIO - it really is all about the screenplay. Walter Hill helped give us the original Alien. He helped cement the final draft so there is some hope.

ObserverIO - 10/12/2025, 7:02 PM

@McMurdo - It's very encouraging fr. But they need a good director too.

They need to think bigger, to quiet the voice inside that tells them "There's no way we would ever get Christopher Nolan or Denis Villeneuve" because that's like saying "There's no way a director like Ridley Scott, David Fincher or James Cameron would work on an Alien movie".

I realize they weren't massive names back then but neither was the franchise. And now it's a franchise that follows in the footsteps of these massive names. Give it to someone like Robert Eggers or Bong Joon Ho. Someone who will get creative with it.

Maybe Walter Hill should start talking to Weaver about directors and then start talking to these directors about the movie as he's writing it. Make something good again.

Timerider - 10/12/2025, 2:25 PM

If they bring back Michael Biehn for an Alien 3 alternate movie. They wake up after 40 years later in their chambers. They don’t have to worry about de-aging her or him and we see them kill an Alien.

SuperiorHeckler - 10/12/2025, 4:22 PM

@Timerider - Put all the CGI-tracking dots on her face and remove all the lines you like. Sigourney is still nearly 80 years old. You can't hide how the body moves and reacts at that age. 🤨

Timerider - 10/12/2025, 7:16 PM

@SuperiorHeckler - if you read it correctly, I said let her and Michael Biehn return, they both wake up 40 years later, no need to de-age them. You can use a stunt woman for the hard stuff, let her do the rest.

JustAWaffle - 10/12/2025, 2:32 PM

Let that ish die

SuperCat - 10/12/2025, 2:46 PM

dragon316 - 10/12/2025, 2:57 PM

Didn’t she die ?

SuperiorHeckler - 10/12/2025, 4:19 PM

@dragon316 - Yep she sure did. And her artistic integrity is next-up on the chopping block if she follows through on her apparent enthusiasm to shuffle back into this increasingly convoluted storyline at nearly 80 years of age. 😒

JobinJ - 10/12/2025, 2:59 PM

No.

grif - 10/12/2025, 3:37 PM

do whatever. im not watching this new shit anyway

CplHicks - 10/12/2025, 3:41 PM

Ignore Alien 3 you say (rubbing hands together)

McMurdo - 10/12/2025, 6:38 PM

@CplHicks -

ModHaterSLADE - 10/12/2025, 3:58 PM

Cool, hope she returns.

SuperiorHeckler - 10/12/2025, 4:14 PM

As was mentioned; you either follow-up with the RESURRECTION clone or you blow-off ALIEN3 altogether.

Or.... Sigourney becomes the bigger person and tells the creatively-bankrupt studio that she isn't interested. But, sounds like Sigourney is more than willing to run her legendary character into the ground and come back in a wheelchair if necessary to pick-up another pay-check. 🫤

McMurdo - 10/12/2025, 6:39 PM

@SuperiorHeckler - there is no either. If Hill is writing it it's a sequel to Aliens.

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