Sigourney Weaver has declared herself to be "delighted" with what director Ridley Scott has told her about Prometheus.

Weaver is not scheduled to be in the prequel to Alien, but is still keen to see a franchise in which she was heavily involved in doing well.

She told Outbreak Hollywood: "I actually talked to Ridley about this very idea and I’m delighted he’s doing it. I feel it’s in good hands. It’s a wonderful franchise and if they can invigorate the creature, it could have another life.

"When you find [the alien] in the first movie with what we call the Space Jockey, the kind of strange creature with the elephant face… anyway, the eggs were in its ship, so where do they come from? So it’s like kind of following that storyline with, I hope, another great ensemble."

Prometheus, which stars Michael Fassbender and Idriss Elba, is scheduled for release on June 1, 2012.

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