Alien: Earth gets approval from Ellen Ripley herself!
I’m really enjoying it. What I admire about it is the scope is so much more profound than just an Alien movie. It’s about our world and what’s dominating the world in 100 years, and to me it’s right on.
Sigourney Weaver — who played Ellen Ripley — said at the PEOPLE/EW and Shutterstock Studio during the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, Sept. 8, while promoting her new movie, Dust Bunny. the 75-year-old actress added, Weaver praised series creator Noah Hawley for what he’s bringing to the Alien franchise
Weaver liked Hawley’s idea of “new creatures based on children,” referring to the hybrids — synthetic beings with human consciousness — like Sydney Chandler’s character Wendy.
All these things are so remarkable and they’re just building and building and building.
she said
The series also includes cyborgs — cybernetically enhanced humans like Babou Ceesay’s Morrow — and synthetics, artificially intelligent beings such as Timothy Olyphant’s Kirsh.
And the monsters that he’s also bringing in are just terrifying. It’s like, we don’t have enough problems with the alien, we need 50 more. I can’t believe I’m watching TV.
Weaver said
Weaver’s legendary role in the Alien movies earned her an Academy Award nomination. She first starred in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film Alien in 1979 and returned as the lead in James Cameron’s action-packed sequel Aliens in 1986.
That role — which gave us the famous line, “Get away from her, you bitch!” — earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, a rare honor for a sci-fi film.
Weaver returned as Ripley in David Fincher’s Alien 3 in 1992 and played clones of the character in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien Resurrection in 1997, while the franchise continued to grow.
Alien: Earth is set in 2120, two years before the events of the first Alien film. The story follows a deep-space research ship that crashes on Earth, bringing with it strange and terrifying creatures, including the Xenomorph.
Wendy and the other hybrids — created by Prodigy Corporation CEO Boy Kavalier (played by Samuel Blenkin) and called the “Lost Boys,” a nod to Peter Pan — set out to encounter these alien creatures.
According to the series description, Wendy and the “Lost Boys” come “face-to-face with the planet’s biggest threat” during their mission.
The series also stars Alex Lawther, Adrian Edmondson, David Rysdahl, Essie Davis, Lily Newmark, Erana James, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Kit Young, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver.
Source: PEOPLE