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Neeson has signed on to play the monster while Jones will play the dying mother and Weaver is on board as the grandmother.īayona’s previous film was the Oscar-nominated The Impossible.Ī Monster Calls is slated for release on October 14, 2016. In between the stories, we learn that the boy’s mother is undergoing chemotherapy and that the boy is being tormented by bullies at school. In Ness’ story, a 13-year-old boy is visited every night at 12:07 by a tree monster who tells him stories.

But in A Monster Calls, Weaver will be involved in a battle against a monster of a very different sort: terminal illness.Īccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Weaver has signed on to star opposite Felicity Jones and Liam Neeson in Juan Antonio Bayona’s big screen version of Patrick Ness’ children’s fantasy novel, which won both the Carnegie Medal and the Greenaway Medal in 2012. In a time when heroic female leads were few and far between, Ridley Scott helped to change cinematic representation by bringing Ellen Ripley to life, a heroic, authentic, unsentimental hero for the modern age of cinema.With four Alien movies under her belt, Sigourney Weaver has more experience fighting monsters than just about anyone. Ripley doesn’t have time to try to be sympathetic, you know?”. Crediting the writing and the bravery of Ridley Scott and his crew in the 1970s for the film’s success, Sigourney Weaver told Entertainment Weekly, “I’m very flattered when actresses talk about Ripley, I feel very fortunate that I got to play her, but I have to certainly acknowledge the writers”.Ĭontinuing, she notes, “So many people in the business would have said, ‘Well now we have to make her more sympathetic.’ And then it’s suddenly this token scene that shows we’re actually feminine after all, and that’s frankly bulls**t, because that doesn’t happen in real life. It’s not rocket science”.Īlien would represent a glass ceiling for female actors, alongside James Cameron’s science-fiction romp The Terminatorand pave the way for brand new stories and opportunities in the industry. Sigourney was sent the Alien script and invited to audition in New York before Ridley Scott, David Giler and Gordon Carroll. There are a lot of cool, complicated women out there. He’s been doing it for a very long time…I think his attitude about it is very similar to my own. It is hard work and one must be diligent. It is helping me to see the pain these women experience in their daily lives as they work their recovery. Her stay in the hospital is well documented, and she shares her emotions through her recovery process.

Ridley Scott deserves a good amount of credit for this depiction too, with Katherine Waterston of Alien: Covenant stating at a special event, “Maybe Ridley’s not getting enough credit. The Monster Within is a detailed story of Cynthia's battle with Bulimia. Brash and outspoken, Ripley grows into the film to become a clear leader, launching into a mode of steely determination. When we first meet her character, however, it is unclear whether she will indeed become the protagonist as Ridley Scott toys with expectations, presenting her as merely another aggrieved member of the newly-awakened Nostromo crew. Originally written as a male character by screenwriter Dan O’Bannon, it was Ridley Scott that requested a female lead in Sigourney Weaver for Alien, playing the role of a bold, assertive warrant officer aboard the Nostromo spaceship.Īs intelligent as she was physically decisive, cinema had not seen a heroine quite like Ellen Ripley before, fighting off and evading the violent alien to become the last woman standing on board the Nostromo. At the time of the film’s release in 1979 cinema was very much a male-dominated space, with the highest performing films of the time being Apocalypse Now, Rocky III, and Moonraker, each showcasing male leads with a stark lack of strong female roles.