Sigourney Weaver, 76, is ready to make a return to the Alien universe. Weaver, who received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Ellen Ripley in the 1986 sequel Aliens, revealed a meeting she had with Disney about reprising the iconic character. She said Friday on a New York Comic Con panel that Walter Hill, who produced all the films in the series, wrote a script that has Ripley back in the franchise. She never planned to reprise her role, she said, “but what Walter has written... seems so true to me.” The script is not yet feature-length, but “it’s a very strong first 50 pages,” Weaver said. “I’m thinking about working with Walter to see what the rest of the story would be.” Weaver’s breakthrough role was in the series’ first film, Alien, which came out in 1979; she exited the uni

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