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James Cameron’s Avatar 4 & 5 Is Keeping Sigourney Weaver Schedule Busy From Starting Work On Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5

Still of Sigourney Weaver in Avatar 2009

James Cameron’s Avatar 4 & 5 Is Keeping Sigourney Weaver Schedule Busy From Starting Work On Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5

Academy Award-nominated actress Sigourney Weaver is well known for playing the roles of Ripley from the Alien franchise and Dr. Grace Augustine in James Cameron’s blockbuster hit Avatar.

Released in 2009, Avatar went on to become the highest grossing film of all-time at the global box office. Now, after almost a decade, the filmmakers have not one but four Avatar sequels in the making. Avatar 2 and 3 have already wrapped principal photography, while work on Avatar 4 and 5 is well underway.

During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Weaver revealed that she is currently busy filming Avatar 4 and 5. When asked to comment on the status of Neill Blomkamp’s proposed Alien 5 movie, the actress said that she currently quite tied to Avatar 4 and 5 and Blomkamp is currently busy with three other projects.

We almost started to do it when I was working with James Cameron,” Weaver said. “But by the time we were put off by Fox, Neill had gotten so many jobs that we’d have to wait probably. I’m busy doing Avatar 4 and 5. I love working with Neill and I think he’d do a terrific job, and James Cameron really thinks it’s a great idea, so you never know. Right now, I think Neill’s got like three projects going at once.”

So, it seems fans can expect work on another Alien movie to begin only after Weaver and Blomkamp are done with their current projects.

When asked if the Alien actress would play four different roles in four sequel films, she said she will be reprising the same role in all the films.

No, it’s a continuous character,” Weaver said. “We just finished shooting two and three. We shot it in LA and James has announced publicly that there’s a lot of underwater work, so we learned how to free dive and we did many scenes underwater which was challenging and kind of cool.”

When asked if the four sequel films will play as one story together, the actress said all four films are independent, but they will tell one big story.

It’s kind of one story,” Weaver said. “They’re all independent. It works without 4 and 5, but it really is a big saga.”

Avatar 2 is currently set to arrive in theaters on December 18, 2020.

Source: THR

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