Sigourney Weaver talks Prometheus and Alien Films

[img]http://www.indiewire.com/static/dims4/INDIEWIRE/667146b/4102462740/thumbnail/680x478/http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/13/b9e620272c11e197b6123138165f92/file/Sigourney-Weaver_article_horizontal.jpg[/img] "Ridley and I talked about the idea of 'Prometheus' and I always thought that was the only story to tell...So I think it’s great that Ridley is doing it," she said. "I will be as excited as anyone to see how he recreates this creature, re-energizes the Alien. I’m very proud of our four movies and I wish him all the best with it." Those four movies would have been five, had Fox had its way. Joss Whedon, who wrote "Alien Resurrection," had a script written for the next installment, but for Weaver, it lacked the challenge of the previous films. "I wasn’t really interested in doing another Alien because Fox wanted us to come to Earth which I just thought was so boring," says Weaver. "I was like, oh my God, we’ll be running through a mall and the Alien will be in Bloomingdale’s or something." For the record, we'd be totally on board with a high-end-department-store-on-Black-Friday-set Alien sequel, as, whatever about prison planets and clone laboratories, that's a terror to which we can all relate. In any case, Weaver sends further good vibes to Charlize Theron who has the unenviable task of "following" Weaver's Ripley as the new female lead of an Alien movie. "Well, you know [the iconic nature of Ripley] happened over four movies so let’s give [Theron] a break. I’m sure they’re not trying to create a blonde Ripley or anything. She’s a wonderful actress, she’ll want to do her own thing with it and not be in the shadow of the other one," she says. Indeed, Theron is playing the CEO of Weyland-Yutani, the shady company that sent Weaver and her crew into outer space in the first place, so she'll be adding a very different piece to the puzzle. "'Alien 3' was difficult in a sense," Weaver understates, "but I loved David Fincher, I loved the cast. What was hard was that we were under a lot of pressure to get the movie done and some movies are very hard to rush, so there was a lot of unnecessary tension." Smiling, she adds, "I think creativity thrives in an atmosphere of joy and love, but not everyone agrees with me…but I think we made a good movie. When I think of 'Alien 3,' I don’t remember the pain, I just remember what we were trying to do." "I wasn't too happy about Predator joining Aliens alley. I'm happy Ridley has taken up the baton and is doing this film. I'll definitely be in the theater rooting them on." Link to article: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/marrakech-film-festival-11-sigourney-weaver-talks-avatar-prometheus-and-the-forgetting-the-pain-of-alien-3