Overview
- Weaver says Hill has written roughly 50 pages exploring where Ripley is now, with the character marginalized by society and possibly around 200 years old.
- She describes the concept as a very different kind of story from the original Alien rather than a reprise of familiar corridors-and-creature tropes.
- Weaver says she has met with the current studio about the idea, but there is no greenlight, director, cast, or production timeline.
- Hill, a producer across the franchise with story and screenplay credits on earlier films, is driving the new treatment.
- Weaver adds that Neill Blomkamp’s planned sequel was effectively derailed when Ridley Scott focused the series on his prequels.