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Noomi Rapace, a.k.a. the original Swedish "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," may not have landed the Lisbeth Salander role in the planned U.S. adaptation of the Millennium Trilogy... but she isn't having trouble nabbing meaty roles in other big-budget tentpoles. She's already been cast as the female lead opposite Robert Downey Jr. in "Sherlock Holmes 2," and now comes news that she's a strong candidate to play the E.T.-butt-kicking lead in Ridley Scott's 3-D "Alien" prequel.
According to Deadline, studio 20th Century Fox has also met with actresses Abbie Cornish and Carey Mulligan about the part, but Rapace reportedly left a "strong impression."
We wish we could say that Rapace -- or whoever ultimately lands the role -- will be playing a younger version of Sigourney Weaver's iconic Lt. Ellen Ripley, but, alas, that seems unlikely. Scott told Empire last year that the movie will be set roughly 30 years before the original "Alien," which would make the year 2085 and would make Ellen Ripley a zygote.
The prequel will reportedly delve into the origins of that mummified alien Ripley and co. discover in the first "Alien," and could conceivably spawn a second prequel movie (a prequel sequel).
We'd be stoked to see Rapace kick some "Alien" ass -- would you? Let us know in the comments!
Wes Craven, the legendary horror maestro behind the "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Scream" franchises and a bevy of other bone-chilling hits, returns to theaters today with his first writer-director effort in 16 years: the 3-D thriller "My Soul to Take."
So what inspired the filmmaker, who's certainly kept busy in the directing department lately, to sit down and write his first full-length screenplay since 1994's "The New Nightmare"? "I just realized that it had been a while since I'd written anything," he told MTV News recently. "And then, right around the same time, the idea for this movie popped into my head while I was taking a shower."
But that's only half the story. "This is also the most autobiographical of all my films," Craven admitted. We thought this was an interesting thing to say about a movie that tells of the Riverton Ripper, a fabled serial killer with multiple personalities/souls (only one of them a cold-blooded killer partial to gutting people) who returns to murder the seven children born the night he died... so we asked for some clarification.
"My father died when I was four, and the memories I have of him were that I was scared of him," Craven confided. "I think he had a bad temper, and that always kind of haunted me the rest of my life. I was always wondering who my father was. So that kind of mystery of the father by the son, wondering what of the father is in you that might pop up. That's one of the themes of the movie, of course."
Craven's relationship with his father wasn't the only aspect of his childhood that informed the movie, however. "I was raised in the Baptist Church -- you know, you can't got to movies, you can't smoke, you can't drink, you can't dance, all those things. I always felt like really naive and innocent in a way I didn't want to be, especially as I got into junior high and high school... Certainly Max Theirot's character Bug is an innocent at the beginning of the movie, but he's not at the end by any means... It's very much about the fallen angel, in a way, the angel that in order to become a man and know what's really going on has to lose his wings and learn the tough truths about life."
For more from Wes, including his decision to make "My Soul to Take" in 3-D, check out the videos above.
Will "My Soul To Take" take in your money at the box office this weekend? Tell us in the comments?
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A strange UFO was above the Chelsea area of Manhattan in New York yesterday that had people on the streets in awe. Read more on the Manhattan UFO and see the interesting video below.
Crowds in New York stood still as they observed strange glowing objects in the skies above Manhattan.
At around 1 p.m. yesterday objects appeared that seem to hang at 5,000 feet above the city but was not picked up on radar. A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman, Jim Peters, stated, “We re-ran radar to see if there was anything there that we can’t account for but there is nothing in the area. There was some helicopter traffic over the river at that time and we checked with LaGuardia Tower. And they said they had nothing going low at that time.”
Eyewitness Daniel Calhoun, said, “Common sense says it was a plane or a balloon, but this thing stopped everyone in the street for two blocks. Any New Yorker will tell you, that alone is extraordinary.”
Check out the video of the New York UFO below:
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A triangle formation was recorded on a webcam in New York from 9 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
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What do you guys think the objects could be?
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