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Rebecca Ferguson in Talks for ‘Alien: Paradise Lost’
Firs there was Ripley, then there was Elizabeth Shaw. Now there’s…
Hot off the heels of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Rebecca Ferguson is allegedly in talks to join Ridley Scott’s Alien: Paradise Lost, the newly titled Prometheus sequel, Deadline writes.
While no official offer has been made, the latest script for the film features, “…a peach of a major female role,” which has led executives at Fox to consider Ferguson.
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Alien: Paradise Lost is the sequel to Prometheus, which introduced viewers to a new side of the Alien universe, this time focusing on the “Engineers”, the creators of the human species. The film will continue the story of Dr. Emily Shaw as well as David, played by Michael Fassbender. It will then be followed by Neill Blomkamp’s Alien, which takes place after the events in 1986’s Aliens.
The film is slated for release on May 30, 2017.
Sony returns to their own Marvel universe with the upcoming Kraven the Hunter, which has been bumped all over the release schedule. This week, it’s been bumped once more.
There was a time when Sony was going to unleash Kraven in theaters in October 2023, but the film was then bumped to August 2024. It’ll now release on December 13, 2024.
Kraven the Hunter will be the very first Marvel movie from Sony to be released into theaters with an “R” rating, with lots of bloody violence being promised.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the title character, Marvel’s ultimate predator.
“Kraven the Hunter is the visceral story about how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Set before his notorious vendetta with Spider-Man, Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the titular character in the R-rated film.”
Ariana DeBose will play Calypso in the upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie.
Christopher Abbott (Possessor) is playing The Foreigner, with Levi Miller (Better Watch Out) also on board. Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark) will play another villain, but character details are under wraps. Russell Crowe and Fred Hechinger also star.
J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year) is directing Kraven the Hunter.
The screenplay was written by Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk.
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