Sigourney Weaver speaks onstage at Sigourney Weaver on ALIEN and Beyond during New York Comic Con 2025 at The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on October 10, 2025 in New York City. Jason Mendez/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text Sigourney Weaver won't rule out returning to her seminal Alien character Ripley in light of 50 new pages of a script she's seen from producer 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 crowd at New York Comic Con Friday. "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." Related Stories Movies AI Thriller 'Mercy' Was The "Next Iteration" For Chris Pratt: "This Was a Departure for Me" TV Sigourney Weaver Reviews 'Alien: Earth': "More Profound" Than an 'Alien' Movie Added the star: "She's a problem to them, so she's sort of tucked away. Anyway, I think it's a very strong first 50 pages, and I'm thinking about working with Walter to see what the rest of the story would be." Weaver appeared on the Main Stage, where co-star Veronica Cartwright made a surprise appearance as Weaver mostly shared her memories and reflections on filming the genre-busting 1979 classic directed by Ridley Scott, as well as other entries in the franchise. For the actress, who has carved out her own corner in sci-fi with the help of Alien, joining the cast was about the strength of the story and not necessarily because of her genre-appreciation. "I'm an English major, so I just read for the story. If it's a good story, I don't care what genre it's in. I never really thought about genres. I just thought of good stories," she said. "Now genres are a much more well-defined thing, but I'm glad I didn't really think about it. I'm glad I followed this story." She continued: "I thought it was a very concise script, 10 Little Indians, knocking them off one by one. If you don't know what the Alien design is, it's very hard to understand what this monster is running around, dripping acid. So I didn't have any idea of the rather beautiful, exotic creature that the alien was 'til I met Ridley at the audition, and he brought out these incredible pictures from [H.R.] Giger and from Carlo Rambaldi. I realized I'd never seen anything like that in a movie ever. That and Ridley cinched the deal." In terms of her casting, which has been heralded for decades as a defining performance and ground-breaking representation of a female lead in the genre, Weaver noted that despite her character being at the center of the narrative, she questions whether she was actually considered number one on the call sheet. And that comes from the fact that there had been so little representation of women like Ripley. "I think there was probably some dismay in the cast that this complete unknown who'd never really made a movie before was going to be the survivor. And the reason I was the survivor was our writers, Walter Hill and David Geyler, thought no one will ever imagine that the survivor will be a woman," Weaver said to crowd cheers. "That's thanks to Walter and David." When asked about how her own journey off-screen may have mirrored Ripley's journey on-screen, Weaver pointed to a conversation with co-star Ian Holm. "I remember that I made friends very quickly with Ian Holm," she said. "We had that scene right away and... I said to Ian later, 'Do you think that Ripley feels what she's doing is right all the time?' And he said, 'Yes, absolutely.' And I said, 'Wow, I really don't think she knows that at all. It's a complete improvisation. She's flying by the seat of her pants.' Which, in fact, as an actor I was, because no one ever said the lines. It was just a free-for-all all. And for me, being from the theater, I was so I was terrified. That was easy to play." That improvisation made its way into the film's killer final sequence, as how the alien was set to die had yet to be determined. But with the arrival of Fox studio executives, the answer had to come quickly. "He wasn't really sure how to end it and how to kill it. They hadn't really worked on how to make that come across visually. But he suddenly, I think, got the word you've got to finish today and tomorrow, so they figured out water and did a test. It worked." "I asked Ridley not to tell me where, if there was something in my little escape vessel. I didn't want to know anything about it. So I had the luxury of not knowing, which is a great thing for an actor," she continued. "I feel very lucky that my first f