Sigourney Weaver was well and truly done with Ripley by the time Alien 3 came across her desk, which the ending reflected. But then she saw the size of the cheque for Alien: Resurrection... She Was Dead...: Ripley spends most of Alien 3 impregnated with an Alien Queen chestburster, and at the end of the movie is given a choice: let the evil company remove it and shell live, or die. She bravely chooses option two, and lets herself fall into a pool of molten steel to rid the universe of the toothy beasts for good. ...But She Got Better: 200 years after Alien 3, Ripley is cloned by another evil company, who want to remove the Alien Queen from her to breed a new strain of Alien. Bad idea. They soon break free and Ripley V.2 has to escape. Cloning a dead character is only beaten in laziness by the old They had a twin! gambit. But given Ripleys fairly permanent fate in Alien 3, there wasnt much else that could be done. But rumours abound that the forthcoming Alien 5 by Neill Blomkamp will ignore Parts 3 and 4 completely, and pick up from Aliens instead.
