Sigourney Weaver Not Participating in Aliens RPG

We seem to have missed a short interview with Aliens star Sigourney Weaver over at MTV Multiplayer, in which she explains why she refused to be involved with either of the two announced Aliens-based games.

(They wanted me to do Ripley and I said, Well you have Ripley killing aliens but also sick people and other marines! And every other word out of my mouth was a curse word. I’m not a nun or anything, but I said, ‘˜This is not true to the character.’ And they also showed me six video games and said it was going to be made by this company. There was one called ‘˜Rednecks’ where they shoot animals. The whole thing was so ridiculous.)

A few things to note: According to Sega, Weaver isn’t talking about them, something that I suspected after noting that neither Obsidian nor Gearbox, makers of the upcoming Sega (Aliens) role-playing game and first-person shooter, appear to have made a game about rednecks.

I contacted Sega, where a spokesperson told me that the publisher had not contacted Weaver about participating in either game. I followed up to ask if Sega wanted Weaver and/or her character Ripley involved in either adventure. Sega p.r. man Denny Chiu replied over e-mail, telling me: (Currently we haven’t announced any talent for either Aliens games. You’ll just have to wait and see about more details concerning the storylines in the games. (winking emoticon))

Hmm. Maybe Sigourney is referring to Aliens-based games that were being developed years ago? I’m not sure why we’d need Ripley to be involved with either game, anyway.