Sigourney Weaver says she'll never play Ripley again :(

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Sigourney Weaver Says ‘Ship Has Sailed’ on Fifth ‘Alien’ Movie and Reprising Ripley: ‘I Really Wanted to Do It With Neill Blomkamp’

Harrison Ford is returning to the “Indiana Jones” franchise in the upcoming “Dial of Destiny,” marking a return to the character he’s now played for 42 years. It’s been 44 years since Sigourney Weaver first played Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott’s “Alien,” but don’t expect her to pull a Ford/”Dial of Destiny” and return to the role that made her an action movie icon. In a new interview with Total Film magazine, Weaver said her days as Ripley are over.

“There are all kinds of younger actors taking this kind of role,” Weaver said. “And there was an ‘Alien’ [film] that I really wanted to do with Neill Blomkamp and we didn’t get to do that, but, you know, that ship has sailed. I’m very happy doing what I’m doing. I put in my time in space!”

“District 9” filmmaker Blomkamp scripted and prepped for an “Alien” movie that never got off the ground at 20th Century Fox. The sequel would’ve marked Weaver’s fifth time playing Ripley after “Alien” (1979), “Aliens” (1986), “Alien 3” (1992) and “Alien: Resurrection” (1997). Back in 2015 during the film’s development, Weaver told Variety that it would “break new ground.”

“I can’t think of a better director,” Weaver said at the time about Blomkamp, who directed her in “Chappie.” “He’s a real fan. I think he’ll be true to the world and take it in unexpected directions. It’s got a lot of sinew in it. It will certainly stand up to the others and probably break a lot of new ground as well.”

“Alien 5” never made it into production, but that wasn’t the end of Weaver getting offers to join a new “Alien” movie. Weaver confirmed to Empire magazine in summer 2020 that franchise producer Walter Hill had sent her a 50-page treatment for “a different take on a fifth Ripley film.” Hill served as producer on every “Alien” movie and has a story credit on James Cameron’s “Aliens.”