No Weaver In Ghostbusters, Aliens Games
Some news from videogameland: Sigourney Weaver will not reprise her roles for the upcoming video game adaptations of Ghostbusters and Aliens.
Voice acting in games is usually something to be tolerated rather than enjoyed, but having Weaver’s likeness in these games would have added some authenticity, at least. I’m still not sure why the game designers couldn’t just have her characters voiced by someone else, though. It seems the days when Bill Paxton’s “Game over, man!” line could be inoffensively re-recorded by some random dude and shoved into the SNES Alien 3 game are long gone. I blame lawyers and nerds.
Behold David Fincher's artistic vision.
I can’t say I blame Weaver for her decisions. Starring in arguably the greatest horror-comedy and sci-fi horror films of all time and then seeing their franchises ruined by awful sequels and spinoffs (I’m looking at you, Alien Resurrection.) would make anyone squeamish. Well, anyone except Lance Henriksen, but that’s a story for another post.
Finally, it seems the new Aliens games might not happen at all, since Sega has diverted funding to its upcoming Aliens vs. Predator game. (Lance! Quick! Tell them you’re available!) If Sega has any love for us in their black, black hearts, they’ll base this game on the old Dark Horse comics (like the arcade side-scroller from the 90s) and not the recent terrible AVP movies, but I’m not holding my breath.
Tags: aliens, ghostbusters
March 24th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Did you ever play the Genesis version of Ghostbusters? It had nothing to do with either of the movies, and it was awesome.
March 25th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Oh man, no. I only know the NES and Commodore versions, neither of which are very fun.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
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