ALIEN fans to get Halloween treat?

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Monday, April 21, 2003
Source: Chicago Sun-Times, FilmJerk

It's coming up on the quarter century mark since the release of Ridley Scott's ALIEN. In 1979 audiences were introduced to H.R. Giger's unstoppable extraterrestrial, which went on to star in three (so far) sequels as well as lauch the Hollywood careers of actress Sigourney Weaver and director Ridley Scott.

And there might now be plans to bring the movie that started it all back into theaters. According to a report that appeared yesterday on the FilmJerk website, 20th Century Fox has scheduled to re-release the picture in theaters on October 31, 2003, Halloween Day. How appropriate.

Fox is also working on the ALIEN QUADRILOGY DVD set which is rumored to come out later this year. As well, the actress who plays Ripley has been turning the ALIEN 5 rumor mill again. While promoting her new film HOLES, Sigourney Weaver told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Cindy Pearlman that Scott and her have kicked around some ideas for a new adventure for Ripley but nothing's gelled into a script so far. "If we developed a good script, I'd love to play Ripley again," Weaver said. But what would ALIEN 5 be about?

"The only thing I'm not interested in is going to earth. I saw that STAR TREK movie where they went to Earth and ... yawn. I think it's more fun to go to a foreign planet--especially now. Who wants to come to Earth now? Let's go far, far away! Fantasy is what we need!"


James Cameron has said that he's up for writing and producing a new ALIEN movie, but can Scott, Weaver and Cameron all get together on the same page to make it happen?


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