Hope yet for a NECA Aliens Drake figure?

It seems likeness rights for movies like Aliens and Predator are not as simple as say an all encompassing licence like Star Wars, with companies having to negotiate not only with the licence holder but also with the individual actors. This is the main reasons we have not had many human figures in the NECA Aliens line to date.

It seems one figure that has now got to the top of fans lists (after the eventualy release of Vasquez) is her partner Drake.

While early exchanges instigated by fans on Twitter between actor Mark Rolston and NECA seemed fruitless, the following Tweet from Mark and reply by NECA have filled many Alien collectors with hope that we will finally add Drake to our collections in 2018.