Sigourney Weaver won’t reprise her role as Ellen Ripley: "That ship has sailed"
https://www.gamesradar.com/sigourney-weaver-ellen-ripley-alien-reprisal/share
Sigourney Weaver made waves in the sci-fi/horror subgenre as Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's 1979 hit Alien, reprising the role in subsequent sequels Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection (as a Ripley clone). Although, while stars like Harrison Ford have gone on to reprise their iconic roles in reboot/sequels or franchise-ending films, Weaver has no interest in returning as Ripley.
"There are all kinds of younger actors taking this kind of role. And there was an Alien [film] that I really wanted to do with Neill Blomkamp and we didn’t get to do that, but, you know, that ship has sailed," Weaver says in the upcoming issue of Total Film magazine(opens in new tab), which features Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny on the cover. "I’m very happy doing what I’m doing. I put in my time in space!"