(KTLA) -- Though the first season of FX's hit series "Alien: Earth" just wrapped, there's already exciting news in the world of "Alien" — and it could mean the return of the series' most iconic character, Ellen Ripley.

Actor Sigourney Weaver, 76, recently joined "Alien: Earth" cast members for a panel at New York Comic Con, where the three-time Academy Award-nominated veteran revealed she's met with Disney, who owns the franchise, to discuss a return.

Weaver said she was impressed by 50 new script pages from producer Walter Hill that she called "quite extraordinary."

“I said I have never felt the need. I was always like, ‘Let her rest, let her recover,’" Weaver told the crowd. "But what Walter has written seems so true to me as very much about the society that would incarcerate someone

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