Weaver Reprises 'alien' Role In Video Game

By Derrik J. Lang, ASSOCIATED PRESS, Houston Chronicle: Business
Thu, 07/10/2014 - 12:30pm

The actress who portrayed unflappable officer Ellen Ripley in the Alien film franchise is reprising her role in Alien: Weaver, who recorded new dialogue for the game, says she picked up right where she left off as tough-as-nails Ripley in filmmaker Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror masterpiece. The bonus "Crew Expendable" and "Last Survivor" levels, which will be available to those who pre-order the game, will allow players to portray Nostromo crew members Ripley, Dallas (Tom Skerritt) or Parker (Yaphet Kotto) as they explore the doomed ship and coordinate their efforts with Lambert (Veronica Cartwright) and Ash (Ian Holm) to lure the menacing alien into the airlock. In the game, created by British developer Creative Assembly, Amanda travels to a remote space station to find the Nostromo's flight recorder and encounters a creature similar to the one that terrorized her mother. "Isolation" follows a long line of games based on the "Alien" franchise, but it's the only title that Weaver has signed on to participate in and marks the first time she's reprised the part since 1997's "Alien Resurrection," the fourth film in the series that ended with a clone of Ripley arriving on Earth. Before the Oct.

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