ALIEN movies

[Tim]

If your talking about the ALIEN movie creatures, I'd orb out of there FAST

[Katie]

I'll follow unless we have the likes of Ellen Ripley with us to fight them off. Even then, I'll be the first one to die. LOL

[nightowl]

I'd not want to handle that, orb us all far away.

[Tim]

Ellen Ripley with us to fight them off.

Yeah, I'd feel safer with her there as well

[Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda]

I would feel safer with Ellen Ripley too! Mind you she did die in one of the later sequels.

[Tim]

I would feel safer with Ellen Ripley too! Mind you she did die in one of the later sequels.

Yes, but a clone of her was brought to life 200 years later. in Alien Resurrection (which was written by none other than Joss Whedon).  Said clone kicked more Alien butts and survived the movie.

[Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda]

Oh yeah!! I forgot about the clone part, its been a long while since I watch Alien Resurrection.

[Tim]

Yeah, the Ripley clone and Annalee Call (Winona Ryder) both make it safely back to Earth.

There was talk of further adventures for Ripley, but that never happened.  And now Sigourney Weaver, much as she is a talented actor, is just too old to do Ripley anymore.

[Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda]

Yeah. But still she could pull it off, a lot of the actors we've said who were a lot older could still do a series for Charmed. I say that because look at Jamie Lee Curtis, one of the biggest scream queens in horror movie history. She's a lot older now and she signed onto the new Halloween movie that's coming out in October. So I believe Sigourney Weaver could do another Alien movie, its only not very likely.

[Tim]

So I believe Sigourney Weaver could do another Alien movie, its only not very likely.

I suppose they could bring Ripley back as an advisor of some kind.

However, they decided to go the prequel route, starting with Prometheus and then Alien Covenant.

[Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda]

Yeah, they could bring her back as an advisor but I'd hope they forge a bond between a new main character and Ripley like a mentor situation where Ripley teaches a new MC to take the Aliens down. Then the Aliens attack and Ripley dies and we have a moment between Ripley and the MC before Ripley dies (giving a great but sad closure) or have Ripley go out giving her life for the MC (maybe as a love interest or something...I don't know...) but I still believe the clone Ripley -- for me -- just wasn't enough closure for her character.

Like when you talk about leading horror ladies and their characters, you hear about Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode (Halloween), Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson (ANoES), Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott (Scream)...Ripley is like Ghost Whisperer, popular but still under the surface as Laurie, Nancy and Sidney have passed to the surface as they get talked about a bunch.

Does that make sense...? I feel like that might make sense but it also sounds weird the way I put it...I don't know, hopefully you'll get what I mean.

[Tim]

Good idea, but not likely.  Sigourney Weaver is closing in on 70, and I think that even she realizes that she's too old for this series now.  Still, I'm glad that Ripley, or at least the clone of her, got a happy ending.

From what I understand, the current series, that started with Prometheus, is telling us the origin story of the Aliens.  They even got Ridley Scott back to direct.

[Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda]

To be honest, I haven't even began watching the current series. But that's just because I haven't had any time to sit down and watch it.

[Tim]

Ah well, plenty of time to do it later.  They've made two so far.

[Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda]

Oh I plan to watch them at some point. I'm interested to see their take on the origins.