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Jennifer Lawrence’s name is being tossed about as a possible ‘Newt’ in the next “Alien” flick.
Sorry…tossed about by one of the film’s stars, that is.
Michael Biehn, set to reprise his role at Corp.Hicks in writer-director Neil Blomkamp’s not-quite-greenlit “Alien” movie, says that the main child character of 1986’s “Aliens” will rejoin Sigourney Weaver and himself for the new film. But as Carrie Henn, the actress that played Newt in James Cameron’s film, has retired, the studio will need to cast a replacement.
No biggie since the character will be much older now – – about as old as a certain “Hunger Games” star.
“There’s going to be a new Newt, she’s going to be about 26 or 27 and looks a lot like Jennifer Lawrence to me but I don’t know” Biehn tells Forbes. “Maybe there’ll be a passing of whatever and then the franchise can move on so they can make more money because that’s what it’s all about.”
It’s very unlikely Lawrence, now a bonafide mega-star, will want to sign up for a possible new franchise. Sure, she might be a fan of the “Alien” movies and jump at it.. but something tells me she’s beyond it now. More likely, a Lawrence-type – one of these up-and-comers, like Alicia Vikander or Brittany Robertson, filling the role.
Biehn, whose character was killed off in “Alien 3”, explained in the same interview how the project came about.
“Well, she’s [Sigourney Weaver] doing the movie, Chappie, and he pitches her an idea for another movie in the Alien franchise, which I thought was dead and gone as she probably did too as well as Fox. He tweeted out some pictures of me, he said he’s going take the third and fourth film and act like they never happened and things blew up… Sigourney says they are still doing their project.”
“I don’t know when it’s going to happen but I know it’s going to happen and I know I’m going to be in it,” he confirms, before repeating a few details we heard from him last year. “There’s going to be a new Newt, she’s going to be about 26 or 27 and looks a lot like Jennifer Lawrence to me but I don’t know. Maybe there’ll be a passing of whatever and then the franchise can move on so they can make more money because that’s what it’s all about.”
While the movie will likely be commissioned, if even because Weaver is definitely onboard to do it, Fox are putting out Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” sequel (“Alien : Covenant”) before putting another “Alien” movie into development. Saying that, it’s likely a couple of years away still.
“It would be very embarrassing to Fox if they don’t give Sigourney the movie that she really wants to go out on”, Biehn said.
Yup.
