Back in May of 2015, Sonnet Realm Films announced they were working on an Aliens fan film. The film, Alien Identity, would have served as an alternate sequel to Aliens where Newt survived and was the main character (to be played by Elle Sonnet). Aliens veterans Ricco Ross and Carrie Henn were going to appear in the film playing other characters. It would have marked Carrie Henn’s return to acting after 27 years.
Then in July, Fox issued Alien Identity a cease and desist order, stating it was worried Alien Identity would confuse fans of the upcoming Neill Blomkamp Alien 5 which is believed to share a similar premise. Alien Identity then went on to become a new project called Triborn.
Last night Carrie Henn shared a cryptic Tweet on Twitter with the hashtag #NEWTLIVES which was the tag Alien Identity was using.
Exciting things are in the works for Aliens fans!!! Can't give details now, but very exciting nonetheless! #ALIENS #NEWTLIVES
— Carrie Henn (@RealCarrieHenn) November 14, 2015
Perhaps in the wake of Alien 5’s postponement we might be seeing a return of Alien Identity? Or maybe there is something new in store for us regarding Carrie Henn and Aliens?
Update 16/11/2015 – Carrie Henn has since tweeted some clarification. The announcement isn’t to do with Alien 5 but judging from her hashtag #Aliens30th, it’s to do with the upcoming 30th anniversary of the Aliens next year.
Exciting things regarding #Aliens…that in mind, I'm not in talks for Aliens5, guaranteed excitement for fans of the franchise #Aliens30th
— Carrie Henn (@RealCarrieHenn) November 16, 2015
Yeah, I know, and I just rewatched the movie 2 days ago.
Those things are gonna come in here just like they did before, and they're gonna come in here...
Hudson!
And they're gonna come in here...
Hudson!!!
And they're gonna get us!
I want you to get on the internet bring up some sort of confirmation. I need articles, interviews, a leaked script. Are you listening? Anything that proves this retcon is really happening.
We don't have much... well, we have a lot of time I guess.
I hate to rain on your parade but we're not going to last 17 hours!
https://twitter.com/RealCarrieHenn/status/673745091807199233
I take it she didn't respond?
Now I'm imagining what both those films would have been like with the acting roles reversed.
Not really I'm afraid. But I've read it in a couple of places, including somewhere on Valaquen's site if I remember rightly. Lang was one of the people who auditioned for Hicks, but he didn't get the part. Then when Avatar was gearing up Cameron supposedly had Biehn in mind for the villain, but changed his mind when he decided having Weaver, space soldiers and Michael Biehn all in the same film would invite too many direct comparisons with Aliens, so Biehn was removed and the part was recast with Lang.
Not that I remember, no. That's pretty cool. Do you have any extra info on it?
Did you know he originally auditioned to play Hicks? Doubly ironic then that he was cast as Quaritch in Avatar, because Michael Biehn was originally in the running for that.
And the only reason I'd see it is because of how nicely the 3D was handled with Avatar. It was still a gimmick, but at least it wasn't over-the-top gimmickry. It was just a regular film that happened to be in 3D, there weren't things lunging out of the screen at you every five minutes like in every other 3D movie I've ever seen.
I don't think I'd go that far!
(Heck, I'd even like to see Alien 3 and Resurrection in 3-D)
Boy, I would really enjoy that. There's a lot of depth in some of those exterior shots, outside the colony. And imagine that establishing shot of Gateway in 3D...
Fox would love it, too. They could sell us another blu-ray.
I did really enjoy what little I saw of Titantic 3D. I thought it worked really well.
That's more or less what I've come to expect, these days.
The marketing department isn't linked at the hip to the creative departments involved in fashioning the actual films.
I think they'd like to create some kind of over-arcing continuity, but you have to set out a definitive plan ahead of time to do that, instead of just handing out the licence to various people and letting them come up with whatever.
Yeah, whatever it is, it's something she personally had a reason to feel really happy about. Some old comics getting republished doesn't really feel like it would warrant that reaction from her.
Y'know, every so often, Cameron does speak about wanting to do what he did with 'Titanic' and remaster 'Aliens' to a 3D format. I thought it was surprisingly well done with 'Titanic', personally. If that's being done, it would mean 'Aliens' is getting re-released in cinemas and that would likely result in new interviews and stuff for the relevant home release, too.
So apparently she was talking about this new anniversary comic that's coming out? It's a heck of a coincidence if she's not.
No formal announcement. And it's unlikely they will. It's just what I've been told by those in the know.
I don't think they ever did. I definitely can't recall that coming up.
But i its cool that they took Alien Isolation in. I didn't know about that.
Uh, when was this? Last I heard Fox said it was still canon, is this fan propaganda again?
Colonial Marines isn't considering canon anymore. At the minute, canon is only Prometheus, Alien, Alien: Out of the Shadows, Alien: Isolation, Aliens, Aliens: River of Pain, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection, Fire and Stone, Aliens: Sea of Sorrows and Predator: Incursion.
He just said it will continue the style of Aliens. So I guess, it will be after 3. Hicks lives as we learned. Thats official. He failed to save Ripley on Fury as we see in the DLC for Colonial Marines which is of yet, canon.
So- they will probably clone Newt and Ripley long before the events of Alien Resurrection. During the lifetime of Hicks. It will be so secret, that it is lost to the future of Alien Resurrection.
There I go getting my hopes up again!!