Sigourney Weaver
Venice
Venice opening night included the "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" standing ovation getting cut short, and James Cameron surprising Golden Lion recipient Weaver with a video message.
Weaver added that it is upsetting that Fincher has since "disowned" the 1992 film.
X Is for Xenomorph
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"That ship has sailed," Weaver said.
"They need us more than ever," Weaver said, as the actors explained their affinity for James Cameron's performance capture technique to IndieWire.
Even the filmmaker's true believers were skeptical about going back to Pandora, but "The Way of Water" is a staggering improvement over the original "Avatar."
"I used to think, 'Oh, it would be fun to direct, but I don’t want to have to deal with those people,'" Weaver said.
"It’s a kind of eternal story," Weaver said of the 1988 workplace comedy starring Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford.
The Sundance hit opens in theaters on October 28.
The "Infinitely Polar Bear" team return with a wildly uneven Ann Leary adaptation about a realtor struggling to keep up appearances.
Joel Edgerton is also attached to star in Schrader's follow-up to Venice premiere "The Card Counter."
James Cameron's 1986 sequel stands above all the other Ripley movies, at least for Sigourney Weaver.
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