In 1979, Sigourney Weaver and director Ridley Scott took a trip to deep space for the sci-fi horror flick "Alien." Weaver returned for three more sequels, but Scott never did. Now, more than a decade after the last film, Scott is coming back to the helm the franchise he launched.

Does that mean Weaver will reunite with the director who launched her career 30 years ago, even though this fifth "Alien" will be a prequel set before the action of the '79 film? When MTV News caught up with Weaver at Comic-Con, the 59-year-old actress didn't seem to think we'd be seeing her alien-battling Ellen Ripley return to the screen.

"I don't see how Ripley could be part of a prequel," she said. "But I'm fine. I wish them well."

After working with James Cameron, David Fincher and Jean-Pierre Jeunet on the other "Alien" films, though, Weaver welcomed the return of the franchise's original visionary. "I'm glad Ridley's connected to it because I know it will be classy," she told us.

There's been no word yet about the prequel's story line, and a writer, Jon Spaihts (who has penned sci-fi scripts for Keanu Reeves), has only just been hired. The first "Alien" movie followed Ripley and the commercial towing vessel Nostromo, which responds to a distress signal only to discover an alien spacecraft. This being a sci-fi horror flick, things don't turn out well for most of the crew.

Could filmmakers find a way to insert Weaver's Ripley into the plot? J.J. Abrams managed to create a cameo for Leonard Nimoy's Spock in the "Star Trek" origin story. At this point, Weaver insists she can't see herself returning to the "Alien" universe — "I can't imagine going back at this point," she declared — but all that could change if Spaihts or Scott strike upon the right way to honor the badass Ripley.

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