Actress Sigourney Weaver is to star in three Avatar films and an Alien sequel, most of which have yet to be filmed but are due for release before 2022.
Weaver (67) has been meeting director Avatar director James Cameron to discuss the three planned sequels to the sci-fi epic, which he is writing and directing. The actress will play a different character from the original. Grace, the exo-biologist she played in the first Avatar, died at the conclusion of the film.
Two of the three films will be shot at once. “I feel like knocking on wood,” Weaver told The Guardian newspaper. “I think things must be getting better. I think, finally, there’s a perception that the world is populated with both sexes, and there are all these lopsided projects in script form that need more oestrogen.”
“I played a few pretty people, but that wasn’t what I was about,” she said, adding that when she watches TV, she is "not sitting there going, ‘Oh, she looks like shit.’
"Because that’s not the point. When I see wonderful older actors like John Hurt, I love how they look, and they haven’t tried to change any of that.”
Weaver will next seen in A Monster Calls, which is adapted from the Patrick Ness novel about a child who loses his mother.
The actress says she read the script and felt it was `too painful' before finally agreeing to play the grandmother whose adult daughter is dying of cancer. Directed by JA Bayona, the new movie co-stars Felicity Jones and Liam Neeson and opens in Ireland on January 6.
