Fox and Scott Circling Star for Alien Prequel(s)
October 28th, 2010
Who in the world can fill the shoes left by Sigourney Weaver in the upcoming Alien prequels from Fox and director Ridley Scott? The list of names is long, but it looks as if the team behind the films are finally zeroing in on someone.
According to Deadline New York 20th Century Fox and director Ridley Scott have just about completed meetings with actresses to find the Ripley-like heroine for the 3D Alien prequel. The site is reporting that, so far, Scott's favorite is The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace. The other names being whispered range from Carey Mulligan to Abbie Cornish, Natalie Portman and Tron: Legacy star Olivia Wilde, the latter of whom met this week.
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Noomi's a genuine badass. If anyone's gonna take the throne from Sigourney, it'd be her.
Submitted by Sirand on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 3:35am.
I vote they write a script that doesn't include the now cliched 'strong female hero'.
It was fresh back in the day when movies like Alien and Day of the Dead did it, but now there have been thousands of them. Worse, as the years have gone on all of these women have been stripped of any aspects of femininity; the characters are now women playing men. Maybe they're better to look at (though they work hard to strip them of curves too) but they don't ever behave like women in any way shape or form.
Good examples of this can be found in movies like Resident Evil, Underworld etc... The last movie with believable and interesting female heroes I've seen was The Descent.
Submitted by Vanvance1 on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 9:18pm.
Noomi gets my vote for sure. She can act ... and kick ass!
Submitted by The Woman In Black on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 8:32pm.
Same here, Noomi deserves the part! She would rock that role!
Submitted by LSD Zombie on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 9:10pm.
Noomi or noone!
Submitted by Matt Serafini on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 8:54pm.