Sigourney Weaver: Prometheus? Totes My Idea

I’m glad it’s Ridley doing it, and I’ll be as curious as anyone, or maybe more curious, to see it. I think he took my suggestion. Fox wanted to go to earth and I said: ‘That’s so boring. Who wants to see aliens on earth?’ I said ‘go back to the planet’.” — Sigourney Weaver, on Prometheus.

Weaver spoke candidly to The Independent about struggling with Fox Studios to approve a final Aliens movie, despite knowing they’d be unlikely to approve a movie starring a female action hero in her sixties. She eventually abandoned the idea, and looking forward to Prometheus, whether or not the plot was directly inspired by her. “‘That’s show-business,’ she says [about not being cast]. ‘I don’t take it personally.'”

Previously in Sigourney Weaver

• “Every Woman You See Has A Secret Action Heroine Inside Her
• Sigourney Weave on Avatar and Ghostbusters Sequels
• James Cameron on Bringing Sigourney Weaver Back for Avatar Sequels

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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