At the request of @PrometheusForTheWin....

PrometheusForTheWin › Seriously, this discussion was about whether Elizabeth Shaw is gunna die or not! Whether Sigourney Weaver is involved may go start its own discussion, but that was not the poibt of this forum. Do you or do you not think that Shaw will die in this movie? That is all I want to know. Sorry if I annoyed you mate.......here's all the back and forth about Weaver from "Is it Safe to Assume..." by @PrometheusForTheWin so we can get on with it.... PrometheusForTheWin-status update-› This movie was actually Sigourney Weavers idea Cypher › @PrometheusForTheWin, where did you get the idea that this movie was Sigourney Weaver's idea? It wasn't, she just suggested that if Ridley did something like this that he make it on the Alien's homeworld....... Far as I know the idea has been kicking around since the late 90's............ Just curious is all, I know she likes to think of the Alien franchise as Ripley's and Ripley's alone (at least that's how it seems to me sometimes........ craigamore › @Cypher...I could not agree more about Weaver....You almost feel like she's more than alittle responsible for where the series went....... PrometheusForTheWin › It was in an interview that she suggested the idea for the movie to Ridley and said he should elborate on her plan, as she is not a director. I dunno if I would like if the movie ended in an obvious sequel, it was just an idea about whether it would be good. craigamore › I can't agree with this notion that 'Prometheus' was Sigourney Weaver's idea....in every interview on the topic, she refers to going back to the planet of origin to "wipe them out at the source"...............she's talikng about another xeno movie with Ripley leading the charge, the cause, whatever...pulse rifle in hand, so to speak. 'Prometheus' is another story entirely. The focus is different...the SpaceJockey race. The chronology is different. The whole point of the thing is different. Cypher › @craigamore yeah Sigourney Weaver pisses me off sometimes. I'm pretty sure you're right, and I think Ridley took that idea and went a different direction with it. I heard that she tried to block any movie being made regarding the Aliens if Ripley wasn't involved. If Ripley had died at the start of Alien 3 and Hicks and Newt had survived instead, I reckon it could have been a far better movie. She's a good actress, but has her head up her arse. craigamore › @Cypher, There really is something nebulous and self aggrandizing about the way Weaver approached the sequels and you just feel like she's squirming in her seat about 'Prometheus', like she can't bear the idea it might surpass any sequel she was eminently inolved in or even responsible for....