Sigourney Weaver Reads 50 Pages of Possible Ripley Return Script

Sigourney Weaver said Friday at New York Comic Con that she has read 50 pages of a new script that would bring her Ellen Ripley character back to the Alien franchise and has met with studio executives to discuss the possibility. The pages were written by Walter Hill, a longtime producer on the original film, and Weaver described them as "quite extraordinary," while cautioning that she does not know whether the project will move forward.

"We do not know if it's going to happen," Weaver told the NYCC audience. "I have had a meeting with Fox, Disney, or whoever it is now. 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. She's a problem to them, so she's sort of tucked away." She added that she is considering working with Hill to develop the rest of the story.

Weaver’s remarks came during an Alien reunion panel that included a surprise appearance by Veronica Cartwright, who played Joan Lambert in the 1979 original. Cartwright recalled the original film's early theatrical reception and the shock of the...