Sigourney Weaver has expressed the same view film fans have been holding for years about Alien vs Predator: she hates it.
The Oscar-nominated actress, who plays Ellen Ripley in the hit sci-fi franchise, was so against the character being in the 2004 mash-up movie that she wanted David Fincher to kill her off in Alien 3.
“I heard that Fox was gonna do Alien vs Predator, which really depressed me because I was very proud of the movies,” she told Radio Times, adding that the idea “caused more problems than it was worth”.
“I’ve nothing against building a movie on a video game, but at the time, it was, as Jim Cameron said I think publicly, ‘Why would you want to do that?’. It’s like making Alien Meets the Wolfman.”
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Paul WS Anderson’s Alien vs. Predator grossed enough at the box office for Fox to warrant a sequel in 2007, Alien vs Predator: Requiem, despite a poor reception from both fans and critics.
There had been talk of a third Alien, but director Ridley Scott opted to make a prequel, Prometheus, instead.
Sigourney Weaver on the set of the original Alien film in 1979
Neill Blomkamp is currently working on a new Alien film, with Weaver already confirmed to return as Ripley and “so excited” to be teaming up with a director who “broke the tapes of these movies when he was a kid, he watched them so much”.
Weaver also popped up this week in a fisherman’s hat on the Cornwall set of ITV’s Doc Martin with lead star Martin Clunes.
It remains unknown what role the 65-year-old is playing but it is expected to be a cameo appearance as a tourist.
