Director Neill Blomkamp came close to making an Alien movie that would ignore continuity, but it never happened. Here's why, according to Sigourney Weaver.

Sigourney Weaver has shared some new thoughts about why Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 never happened. Weaver played Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott’s Alien, which was released in 1979. She then went on to ...

Here’s a surprise: Sigourney Weaver says there is a new Alien script in the works. Even more surprising: She says they are “quite extraordinary.” She cautioned: “I don’t know if it’s going to happen, ...

The last time Sigourney Weaver played any permutation of her Oscar-nominated character Ellen Ripley was 1997’s Alien: Resurrection. For all you math fans out there, that’s nearly 30 years. And yet, Ms ...

Sigourney Weaver was a guest at the New York Comic-Con 2025, and she made an interesting statement about possibly returning to the Alien franchise that sounds perfect. In her panel discussion on the ...

At the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, Weaver hosted a masterclass following a screening of Alien. During that, she talked about unrealized projects in the Alien universe. First was Neill Blomkamp’s ...

Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley recently revealed who voices MU-TH-UR in the series ahead of the release of Episode 5 after speculation that it could be Sigourney Weaver. The FX series acts as a ...

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 ...