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Sigourney Weaver teases what to expect from her returning character, Ellen Ripley, in the upcoming "Alien: Covenant". The 66-year-old actress who is set to reprise her iconic character opens up that the new movie will give a conclusion to Ripley after she faced off so many monsters in the previous installment.

"It's a great story and it's satisfying to me to give this woman an ending," she tells Entertainment Weekly. "The script itself has so much in it that's so original, but also really satisfies the, I would say, the primal needs of the aliens. It's a tribute to all of the great work that the other directors have done, in a way, but goes in a completely new direction. I hope we'll do it."

"Covenant' will follow "Jim Cameron's story about these characters, rather than just ending up in this sort of monastery in space, which was [Alien3 screenwriter] Vincent Ward's idea and Fox elected to go in that direction," Weaver adds. "I think [David] Fincher was fine with that. Each director kind of wanted to create a whole new set of circumstances. In this case, it picks up, it follows directly the circumstances of Jim Cameron's Aliens."

The actress also explains why it takes so long (3 decades) to make this movie. "Well, we have a great script. Fox asked us to delay so Ridley Scott could shoot his [second] Prometheus movie. That was too bad because we would have already done it by now," she says.