Since Sigourney Weaver revealed that she was expected to continue starring as Irene Ripley, the heroine of Alien 5, the cover art of the script was also revealed, which included the slogan of the original Alien movie, "In space, no one can hear you screaming", and a variation of this sentence, "In space, no one can hear you dreaming." "The fans are completely boiling.
Before auditioning for Alien, Sigour had only played one dragon suit role. Although she herself was not very interested in the role at first, she was 1.82 meters tall and the only person who fit the crew's positioning of "physically strong, tall, majestic and intelligent". In the following 18 years, Signey Weaver accompanied Ripley to four "Alien" works directed by four directors of different styles, spanning hundreds of years and breaking through different species, Ripley also became the most complex "space hero and female" female warrior in film history.
Of Alien 5, which will tell Ripley's personal new story, Sigourney Weaver said: "It's a great story and I'm happy to give this woman a great ending... It's a tribute to the creation of all the directors of the past, and in a way, it will be a completely new creative direction, and I hope we can be great. ”
Sigourney Weaver and Ridley Sko were on location on Alien.
"Alien 5" has been "affiliated" with three major directors
In fact, as early as 2002, Weaver said that she had wanted to start filming "Alien 5" with the "father of aliens", Ridley Scott, but Scott was already planning to shoot a prequel to "Alien", in other words, he was only interested in where the alien came from, and did not care where Ripley would go. In the summer of 2014, when Weaver confronted a large number of enthusiastic Alien fans at a comic book show, he hinted that if the conditions were right, the Alien might come to Earth, "I was afraid it would appear in the haystack".
In 2016, Neil Blomkamp, who had directed "District 9", became the director of Alien 5 at one point, and Weaver also revealed that Blomkamp was going to give Ripley an ending in the series, but in the end the project died because it was shelved by the production company Fox Infinite.
James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver on location in Alien 2.
Although there is no further information on the director of "Alien 5" at present, James Cameron, the director of "Alien 2", is said to have always been interested in the series, but given that he still has the "Avatar" series that has been skipping tickets continuously, the possibility of "getting involved" in "Alien 5" is unlikely, and it is gratifying that Weaver will continue to appear in the "Avatar" sequel, still the "Iron Lady" image.
During the filming of the Alien quadrilogy, Ripley's character and her character, Sigour, also gradually underwent synchronized changes, and they grew from a screaming newcomer to a calm female Saint Seiya leader. The following "Queen's Chronicles" will show the inside story of Ripley's metamorphosis.
1. Odd Woman created by Ridley Scott
Alien Calendar: 2122
Release date: 1979
The story takes place in 2122, when the cargo merchant ship Nosmo, carrying 7 crew members and 20 million tons of ore, received a string of unknown signals similar to SOS on its way back, so the merchant ship landed on the signaling asteroid. Upon arrival, a search for the crashed spacecraft was found, and the crew had all died. At this point Ripley deciphered that the signal was not a distress signal, but a warning signal. Crew Kane was then parasitically assumed to host the Alien and brought the Alien into the interior of the merchant ship. The crew struggled to survive, but only Ripley and the cat she rescued survived, and she calmly designed to kill the alien.
The orange cat that eventually survived in the film added a lot of highlights to it, although there were many "cat picking" shots, but due to Sigour Weaver's allergy to cat hair, the crew deliberately selected four cats that would not make her eyelids swollen to appear on camera.
The film's director, Ridley Scott, once described Ripley as "a strange woman who seems to be weak but courageous at heart", and with his wise and decisive image and strong vitality in the first "Alien", Weaver quickly became favored by Hollywood, and the salary soared from $30,000 in the first part to $1 million in the second part.
2. James Cameron insisted that she didn't have to
Alien Calendar: 2179
Release date: 1986
After 57 years of slumber, Ripley was rescued, but found that the LV-426, which had been converted into a colony by the company, suddenly lost contact, and Ripley had to return to LV-426 with his well-equipped Marines, only to find that the Alien had occupied the base and all the members were killed. Ripley, on the other hand, escapes LV-426 after going deep into the Tiger's Den to kill the Alien Queen and protecting Newt, the only surviving girl in the base. Ripley then goes to sleep, and the Facebutter takes the opportunity to sabotage the spaceship to parasitize the egg of the Alien Queen into Ripley's body.
At first, Fox could not afford to pay for Sigour Weaver's explosion and asked director James Cameron to delete Ripley's role, and as an avid fan of "Alien", Cameron once wrote a script called "Mother" with Ripley as a clue, and most of its plot points were almost exactly the same as the "Alien 2" he directed later, including Ripley and Alien. Cameron insisted that Ripley was the basis for the existence of Alien, so he fully retained it and gave a name to Ripley in Alien, who only had a last name, "Irene", and because Cameron was very good at drawing, he drew a lot of mechanical concept design drawings and finally let the designer realize it in the film, so Ripley in this film also had a lot of hardcore scenes of fighting in mechs, such as the classic sentence when dueling with the Alien Queen: "Stay away from her, cheap!" Weaver was also nominated for both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Actress for his role as Ripley in Space. Its "Iron Lady" image of the front of the alien also makes it a "feminist" spokesperson in the film industry.
The film beat "The Godfather 2", "The Empire Strikes Back", "Batman: The Dark Knight" and other films in the 2009 selection of Empire magazine, becoming the greatest sequel in film history.
Ripley and the little girl Newt.
According to foreign media, the little girl who survived in this film, Newt, is also expected to return in "Alien 5" and continue to interpret the story with Ripley. However, it is not known who will star.
3. David Finch changed the style for her to transform the type
Released: 1992
After LV-426, the escape pod in which Ripley and the others were riding accidentally crashed in a space prison. Ripley escapes only to find that the Alien has invaded the prison and is pregnant with the Alien Queen. Eventually, after killing the other Aliens, Ripley jumped into the furnace and died with the Alien Queen.
Fox had planned to drastically remove Ripley's scenes, and Sigourney Weaver herself once thought ripley's story would never be new. "I feel like Ripley is on the verge of becoming a burden on the story, and the character's actions on many levels are something that other people can do."
And "Alien 3" directed by David Finch completely abandons the big scenes and sci-fi sense in the previous work, creates a sense of apocalyptic depression through alien closed mines and endless passages, the tone of the whole film is cold and sad, the theme shifts from the commercial entertainment of "hunting" action movies to the relatively literary human struggle, full of metaphorical religious colors, ripley's image can also be more complete and concentrated in it. David Finch chose a tougher bald head for Ripley and highlighted Ripley's strength in the face of bad luck as a mother.
The alien burst out of Ripley's body.
The film ends with a tragic heroic beauty, Ripley opens his arms to form a cross shape and jumps into the furnace, in fact, this shot has two edited versions, one is directly jumped in, the other is a small alien from the body to break out of the wall and is held by Rip with both hands... This classic ending makes the image of "Iron Lady" Ripley more full,000, who shows a real and credible and painful loneliness in a state of drunkenness and solipsism.
4. Complete the chapter of the heroine's canonization in French style
Alien Calendar: 2381
Release date: 1997
The company uses cloning technology to resurrect Ripley and the Alien Queen, and the base uses the Alien postgraduate weapon but is eaten by the Alien. Ripley teamed up with the smuggling crew to blow up the space station, destroying the alien queen who had already taken the eye and humanoid forms due to the fusion of human genes, and recognized Ripley as her mother, and finally returned to Earth.
As a fan of the "Alien" series, French director Jean Pierre Genet not only let Ripley, who died at the end of "Alien 3", return, but gradually completed his evolution from a female crew member who only wanted to survive at the beginning to the heroine of the "pro" in the end, but also made The relationship between Ripley and the Alien more intimate, adding the interactive scene of "interracial affection" between the two. The whole film not only has wonderful action scenes, but also thinks and discusses scientific ethics. Ripley discovered the secret of her "life" in the laboratory, and when she saw the defective product of the ripley replication experiment seven times, her expression was mixed with sadness, excitement and indignation, and Weaver's performance was truly shocking.
The closing shot of Alien 4 is full of cautionary implications.
After experiencing the bloody storm of the first three films, Ripley's mentality in "Alien 4" is obviously stronger and more peaceful, when she calmly deploys smuggling squads and fights with the aliens with ease, the leadership temperament is convincing, and there are many shots of Ripley shooting from an upward perspective in the film, which also makes her image more "mythical". At the same time, the film also used Winona Red to play a heavy role in Kaul, which is also the first supporting actress in the "Alien" series with more scenes. In the end, Ripley and Kaul return to the scorched earth of the end of the world after surviving the disaster, and the ending shot sitting on the ruins of the city is full of cautionary implications.
Beijing News reporter Li Yan
Edited by Huang Jialing Proofreader Wu Xingfa