Insider here. Preliminary work has started on an Aliens cartoon series which will air on Disney+. 



The series will be an adaptation of the very first three Alien minis put out by Dark Horse: Outbreak, Nightmare Alley, and Earth War. For those unfamiliar, the three form a trilogy and unofficial sequel to the first two Alien films before Alien 3 rendered them non-canon. 



Biehn and Weaver will be reprising their roles voicing Hicks and Ripley. However, Newt will be voiced by a new actor; there is talk about getting Kristen Bell to voice her. 



The trilogy WILL be slightly rewritten to include Ripley in the first two parts (she doesn't show up until Earth War in the original comics due to 20th Century Fox originally embargoing Dark Horse from using the character). 



Disney intends this cartoon to become the new canon starting point for the Aliens franchise. Alien 3 and Resurrection and the Ripley prequels will be declared discontinuity as far as only Alien and Aliens being considered canon by Disney. 



Noah Haley's TV show is pretty much stillborn due to budget issues (Haley's wants a big budget than Disney is not willing to pay out) and content (the Aliens take a backseat to a storyline about various rival tech companies trying to create a new breed of AIs and the Alien rampaging about on the fringes killing everyone in sight). Haley is a huge Prometheus fanboy and justified doing this claiming that if Disney won't give him a "proper budget", then he wants to continue the themes that Ridley Scott wanted to do with the franchise IE focus less on the Xenomorphs and more on the androids. 



The notion of doing a cartoon has more to do with cutting the gordian knot on budgeting (since animation is cheaper than elaborate CGI) plus giving Disney animation studio workers work and trying to get some of that adult animation money that other studios are making.

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>>136888339 (OP)

I'll take the bait. Why are they doing this when they could just fucking reboot or do Aliens 5 with Weaver and the Aliens on Earth?



A couple of reasons: 



1. Doing a cartoon means they can tone down the violence and avoid the bad PR the Aliens vs Predator films had when Fox forced them to be PG 13.



2. One of the Disney executives who is overseeing work on the Aliens property is a huge Hicks stan. So you have a case where a fanboy is in charge and he's going to de-canonize shit to explicitly make Hicks alive again. 



3. Weaver over-values herself and knows full well that Alien 5 is her last remaining big payday she'll ever get to make. Doing a cartoon gives Disney leverage to lowball her plus the fact that if she does refuse to be lowballed, they can recast her and justify it by point out that it's a cartoon and the fact that they have someone else playing Newt. 



Finally, it's Aliens; a franchise Disney really doesn't give a fuck about. So there is less pressure to turn it into an anti-life screed like the Lucasfilms or Marvel properties.
