'Alien' turns 40: How the classic changed the game for women in action films.
Sigourney Weaver recently told Reuters ahead of the 40th anniversary of"Alien" that she initially was excited about the project, as it was a"small film" and had a"tiny cast."While the film may have had humble beginnings in 1979, the impact on the Ridley Scott-directed feature was enormous -- and still resonates four decades later.
In the film, Weaver stars alongside Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton and John Hurt, as crew members aboard a commercial space ship headed back to Earth, before bumping heads with an alien so deadly and ugly that it would give even Rambo nightmares. As it's always about the bottom line in Hollywood,"Alien" showed producers what a leading lady in this type of role could bring in.
Cumming cites an earlier quote from Weaver, which read,"The writers were especially smart in that they didn’t turn Ripley into a female character. She was just a character, a kind of Everyman, a young person who’s put in this extraordinary situation."
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