During an event to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Aliens, the return", Sigourney Weaver showed her willingness to put a new face on Lieutenant Ripley in a hypothetical new installment of Alien.
Neill Blomkamp has been with the Alien project, which would be the direct continuation of 'Aliens: The Return' and it was already announced by Fox. At this point in the film scene it has been relegated to the background until "Alien: Covenant", the sequel to the famous "Prometheus", is released.
In the words of Weaver herself «We got talking about how the show left Ripley. The first day of filming was when we started talking about it; I had never wanted to make a fifth [film]. He didn't want to go to Earth because he thought Earth was boring. Four months later they gave me an incredible script that gives fans everything they are looking for, as well as innovating in so many ways. "
The project that has been formed in recent years would be "Alien 5", which would be directed by Neill Blomkamp (District 9). The work is stopped and will not start until Ridley Scott releases the second prequel in the saga, 'Alien: Covenant', sequel to 'Prometheus'.
Sigourney Weaver would once again be the charismatic Lieutenant Ripley, in what promises to be the end of the saga. It is unclear if the female lead would lose her life in the film. It is known that the plot will follow the story of the second installment, "Aliens: The Return" (1986), by James Cameron, leaving aside everything that was told in Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection.
Although we want to pay tribute to the work done by later directors to the 1986 film, the new installment will follow a new path. Filming would have to wait for Ridley Scott to shoot the second Prometheus movie, "Alien: Covenant," temporarily set a decade after the events recounted in Prometheus.