Natalie Portman has been de-tatching herself from several high-profile movies lately, including Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, and many people are wondering what she could be ditching these projects in favor of? Potentially, a chance to kick some Xenomorph ass.
Vulture is reporting that NatPo is at the top of the list to headline Ridley Scott's currently gestating Alien Prequel, playing a female Colonial Marine general. Other details gleaned from the article are that the film is currently budgeted in the $150 million dollar range (not the previously rumored $250, but still high), that it takes place 35 years before Scott's original Alien, and will explain origins of the iconic Space Jocky from the 1979 film. It will also be less action-oriented than later sequels, re-focusing on gothic horror/suspense, and will in no way, shape or form feature a frickin' Predator. Thank you, Jesus.
Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof has just turned in his re-write (possibly from page 1) of Jon Spaihts' original screenplay, which has supposedly made the studio higher than Bolivian marching powder due to its PG-13 rated violence. As someone who is admittedly not a fan of Lost and completely enamored with Spaihts' spec script Passengers, bringing Lindelof in never made me happy. Now that may have turned in a hacky, middle-of-the-road script to give studio heads a happy ending, I am considerably less pleased.
It's so simple, Fox: give us the intense, original vision we deserve, not Alien Vs Predator 3. Okay? Okay.
