Sigourney Weaver is weighing in on the latest entry to the Alien franchise, which she helped start with the 1979 Ridley Scott-directed film.

Alien: Earth premiered last month, and it’s already getting a lot of praise, including from Ripley herself.

During a recent interview at TIFF while promoting Dust Bunny , Weaver gave her take on the FX series set in the not-too-distant future.

“What I admire about it is it’s not Alien-centric. It is about what world we will be living in in 100 years,” she told Collider . “I think the scope of it is so much bigger than an Alien project. Fascinating. Much more about our world, what’s going to be happening to it, what’s going to be important, the role of greed.”

She continued, “It’s just exploded some of the themes that have always bee

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