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Lance Henriksen talks Alien 5. In a short interview with IGN, Lance Henriksen makes a few comments regarding Neill Blomkamp’s currently stalled Alien 5. While talking to the veteran Alien actor about his upcoming role in Legends of Tomorrow, IGN prompted a couple of comments from Henriksen about Alien 5:

“You know they’re going to make another one. It picks up right where Aliens ended. I don’t know if I’m going to be in a baggie or how I’m going to be in it.”

Unlike Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn, Henriksen hasn’t been contacted about reprising his role as Bishop in Neill Bomkamp’s alternate Alien 3. Judging from his comments with IGN it would appear he hasn’t seen a script or been spoken to about it but he expresses confidence in Blomkamp’s abilities:

“Blomkamp is a really wonderful, wonderful writer. I have a feeling that if he did it, it would be something spectacular. And there’s an audience for it.”

The status of Blomkamp’s Alien 5 is still unknown. The last we heard Alien 5 would be waiting for Alien: Covenant’s release but that it could also be delayed by Weaver and Blomkamp’s commitment to other projects.

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"Lance Henriksen talks Alien 5, revealing you doesn't know how he'll be in the new film."


HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!.

Sorted. Damn it.  :D

Sure.  We'll see an 'ALIEN 5'; and Blomkamp will direct it.  I'm all for it but it will be a very different movie to anything that's currently been proposed. 

After all...  "It picks up right where Aliens ended (but we're all 30 years older)." just doesn't even make sense.

Would have been Great - in 1988. 

-Windebieste.

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 10, 2016, 11:19:41 PM
Sorted. Damn it.  :D

You doesn't know what you have done Hicks YOU DOESN'T KNOW!

My issue is if he is involved don't use him as a back ground plot that just inserted for fan service, f**king utilise Lance skills as an actors to portray Bishop, the always dependable android. Also will they use make up/digital technology to de-age his appearance to resemble how he looked in Aliens or will there be an explanation of why an android looks older?

"I may be synthetic but I'm nut stupid."

The budget they'd need to make him look younger with CGI could be too prohibitive. Maybe they'd have it so that his software is uploaded to a model with legs which has been so damaged it's about to be trashed, then he could have Hicks-like prosthetic damage covering his face.

Bishop - the Octogenarian Android.  This is gonna be a hoot!

Stupid retcon is stupid.

-Windebieste.

Even as someone who enjoys the occasional re-watch of AVP, I still think Bishop's line from Alien 3 kinda sums up the situation the franchise has been in for the better part of two decades...

"I can be reworked, but I'll never be top of the line again"

Lance is a nice guy and he's been generous about coming back time after time, but at this point I think it's best to just leave these characters to rest instead of twisting them further.

Quote from: dinosauriac on Nov 11, 2016, 04:00:16 AM
Even as someone who enjoys the occasional re-watch of AVP, I still think Bishop's line from Alien 3 kinda sums up the situation the franchise has been in for the better part of two decades...

"I can be reworked, but I'll never be top of the line again"

Lance is a nice guy and he's been generous about coming back time after time, but at this point I think it's best to just leave these characters to rest instead of twisting them further.

This.

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Alien 5 is going to end up being Ghostbusters 2016. Old ass cameos!

I like that Henriksen is enthusiastic about it...

BUT... I still they rather do a new story with new characters.

They should just CGI a younger version of Lance because robots don't age. Then they can hire him to provide the voice work.

The Alien retcon just seems like a bad idea to me. We got to wait and see what happens in Covenant first.

With Charles Weyland, I don't think it's impossible to have him back as Michael Bishop again.

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 11, 2016, 03:45:43 PM
With Charles Weyland, I don't think it's impossible to have him back at Michael Bishop again.

You mean Bishop II at the end of Alien 3? But how will you contrive that if Alien 3 never happened in the Blomkampverse?

Or will you just have him pick the Bishop II character from Alien 3 and then trash the rest of the film?

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 11, 2016, 04:26:38 PM
You mean Bishop II at the end of Alien 3? But how will you contrive that if Alien 3 never happened in the Blomkampverse?

Or will you just pick the Bishop II character from Alien 3 and then trash the rest of the film?

That's where I could see them going with it to get Lance back in.

I can hardly wait to see Bishop back in the series, spouting "I'm old but not obsolete".  Oh wait... yes I can, indefinitely so.

Quote from: dinosauriac on Nov 11, 2016, 04:00:16 AMLance is a nice guy and he's been generous about coming back time after time...

I have nothing against the guy and as you say, he does seem like a decent sort but "generous" is not the correct word.  Have you seen some of the straight-to-DVD garbage that Lance Henriksen routinely appears in?!  I honestly don't think that he's in a position to be too choosy in regards to which roles he takes on.  He's certainly extremely unlikely to ever turn down a relatively more high profile gig (such as something Alien related).

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 11, 2016, 04:27:39 PM

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 11, 2016, 04:26:38 PM
You mean Bishop II at the end of Alien 3? But how will you contrive that if Alien 3 never happened in the Blomkampverse?

Or will you just pick the Bishop II character from Alien 3 and then trash the rest of the film?

That's where I could see them going with it to get Lance back in.

It's going to confuse the hell out of people if Alien 3 will supposedly be completely ignored only to have Bishop (I'm not a droid!) II return from Alien 3. It's going to be a real WTF? scenario.  :laugh:

I'd like to think people wouldn't be that thrown by it.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 11, 2016, 04:32:24 PM

It's going to confuse the hell out of people if Alien 3 will supposedly be completely ignored only to have Bishop (I'm not a droid!) II return from Alien 3. It's going to be a real WTF? scenario.  :laugh:

Nah.  I feel like only the fanbase really remembers the details Alien3 at this point.  I had a conversation with someone that was a fan of Aliens a few months ago and he had recalled a lot of fond things about THAT film though.  When I asked what he thought of Alien3, his response was, "Is that the one where they go to the planet and everyone has their heads shaved?"  Then he went on to say that he didn't remember too much about the film but he remembered not liking it too much.

I think a lot of people are would say that about Alien3 in 2016.  So you could take elements of that film and it won't really bother anybody...except for maybe a few on message boards like this one.

Havent posted in forever but imo
Lance/Bishop= 'member berries.  Which sucks in a way but id still watch.

I posted a story idea I had for what I thought Blomkamp's direction may go with the script. In it I proposed that Weyland personnel boarded the Sulaco shortly after the events in Aliens and did some type of dna extraction process where they made clones of the characters which they then put back on the Sulaco to "cover their tracks". This would still validate the Alien 3 and Resurection movies though I can't stand them.

Anyways, due to the tech Weyland used, it *aged* the characters significantly because of growth hormones/etc during the dna extraction of them. This would explain their aging *if* the story picks up shortly after Aliens.

Weyland has the *real* Ripley, Hicks, Newt and Bishop in a secret facility. Weyland brings Bishop back on-line and re-assembles him. He manages to break Ripley, Hicks and Newt out of their forced hybernation chambers with news that he's detected a distress signal coming from LV-426......

Lance also was joking around at the SDCC Panel by saying that Bishop has the ability to age with his human counter-parts as to not make them feel odd/isolated, whatever. I thought it was a neat idea.

Nice try at attempting to keep the 'unpopular' movies included in your proposal; but as soon as you line up so many hoops to jump through in order to justify older actors reprising roles they haven't played for 3 decades, you'd be better off with a fresh story and new characters.

-Windebieste.

The only way this movie can work is if it's 30 years after Aliens. Otherwise it's just gonna be hokey AF. I don't see a problem with that, either, considering the large time gaps between films.

Quote from: LiquidMonster on Nov 12, 2016, 01:22:21 AM
Lance also was joking around at the SDCC Panel by saying that Bishop has the ability to age with his human counter-parts as to not make them feel odd/isolated, whatever. I thought it was a neat idea.

Jokes aside, this fits with what David says in Prometheus about being more comfortable around their own. It would seem logical if they could make androids physical features age like humans, imo.

Quote from: LiquidMonster on Nov 12, 2016, 01:22:21 AMI posted a story idea I had for what I thought Blomkamp's direction may go with the script. In it I proposed that Weyland personnel boarded the Sulaco shortly after the events in Aliens and did some type of dna extraction process where they made clones of the characters which they then put back on the Sulaco to "cover their tracks". This would still validate the Alien 3 and Resurection movies though I can't stand them.

It would also beg the question why they would bother, and how they made fully-grown adult clones in the few days they had available  to get them back on the ship.

Every time someone mentions the ridiculous "they made clones!" idea all I can think of is Ripley saying, "Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?"

Quote from: HuDaFuK on Nov 12, 2016, 11:41:13 AM

Quote from: LiquidMonster on Nov 12, 2016, 01:22:21 AMI posted a story idea I had for what I thought Blomkamp's direction may go with the script. In it I proposed that Weyland personnel boarded the Sulaco shortly after the events in Aliens and did some type of dna extraction process where they made clones of the characters which they then put back on the Sulaco to "cover their tracks". This would still validate the Alien 3 and Resurection movies though I can't stand them.

It would also beg the question why they would bother, and how they made fully-grown adult clones in the few days they had available  to get them back on the ship.

Every time someone mentions the ridiculous "they made clones!" idea all I can think of is Ripley saying, "Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?"

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Quote from: Ash 937 on Nov 11, 2016, 10:54:17 PM
I think a lot of people are would say that about Alien3 in 2016.  So you could take elements of that film and it won't really bother anybody...except for maybe a few on message boards like this one.

True enough, but can you imagine all the mental gymnastics as people on here try and rationalize why Alien 3 is still canon because of Bishop II's inclusion?

Slightly off-topic but some hilarious vids of Blomkamp having a bit of fun with Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgF0C-yWID4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgF0C-yWID4)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPnFN7KzJ5c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPnFN7KzJ5c)

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 12, 2016, 04:11:34 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgF0C-yWID4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgF0C-yWID4)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPnFN7KzJ5c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPnFN7KzJ5c)

That plane looks awesome. Way more awesome than a remake of Alien³ using by-gone actors. I'll be honest here, Weaver, Biehn and Henrickson, while I love them, this is not their era anymore. I can dig a sequel to A|R because I want to see Ripley 8's story but dead is dead for both hicks and bishop.

Either as a fan service film or just a what-if scenario, I do firmly stand by the notion that if you're going to do a sequel to Aliens, going off of what Blomkamp has said, you must include the original actors if available. Work the story around some of the loop holes and the differences in appearance but make it work out so we can enjoy it nonetheless and go "Oh wow, that actually works as a sequel" because if they go the alternative, people will be too picky about recast roles and it won't feel authentic.

They can go the T Genisys route to explain Bishop's age.That was Cameron's idea and its works.

I think to made clones or to make replicas of Ripley, Hicks or News would be to save them.But i think they not clones because clones have no memories.
There could be another company who have the technology of the engineers to replicate humans and import their memories.The reason to do this is to save Ripley and make time for a plan which can destroy WYC.
Thats why WYC is not around in Ressurection.:D
But we heard in Res they cloned Ripley from her blood samples from Fury so in Ressurection we see the clone of a clone..

Who like to see an alien movie with new caracters they will in next year: Alien:Covenant.

I really hope   That Blomkamp will cast Lance Henriksen , as the human Bishop. The contrast in his personality in " Alien 3 " are priceless e.g when he begs " Ripley " Think what we can from it ,it is a chance of  lifetime, from benign to all company ..

Bishop models have no reason to use organic skin (David 8 didn't). There isn't any reason they would biologically age.

There are always other ways around it, though. As I say, it could be he uploads to an intact, yet cosmetically trashed version, so that the character either sports the kind of prosthetic damage Hicks would have or covers most of the face up with a scarf or helmet or something. Both of those options would be cheaper than using CGI for every single frame of film he's in (although, in fairness, they did it reasonably well for Anthony Hopkins and Michael Douglas, so it's possible if the will is there).

Alternatively, it could be that there's a Bishop model which is deliberately designed to look older, maybe for assisting or befrinding the elderly or something. Again, Bishop could upload into one of those (or simply play one which accessed the original Bishop's data files).

When a character is AI, there are ways and means of simply 'reincarnating' them into a different body. It's just a matter of copying data over. Bishop could be uploaded into a non-humanoid form (including a tablet computer) or even a robotic body which looks female and it would be completely plausible to play out.

Interestingly, Blomkamp actually played around with that very story-telling method in 'Chappie', which means he's perfectly capable of doing it that way.

Quote from: Ash 937 on Nov 11, 2016, 08:06:51 AM
They should just CGI a younger version of Lance because robots don't age. Then they can hire him to provide the voice work.

Exactly, that's just what I was thinking. Something like this would be AWESOME:

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I hope not, the de-aged shots of Bridges in that film looked incredibly fake and plasticky.

In all fairness, that was about 6 years ago. The technique has come on impressively over time. But I wouldn't want to see it throughout an entire film. I doubt it'd hold up - but then this is Blomkamp we're talking about and if Chappie can look so fantastic over an entire film...

Tron Legacy was very plastic looking.
Benjamin Button was 8 years ago and looked better.

Just forgo Bishop, and give us a novel robot to assist with a newly-casted adult Newt, and the older pair of Ripley and Hicks.

Quote from: SM on Nov 21, 2016, 02:43:06 AM
Tron Legacy was very plastic looking.
Benjamin Button was 8 years ago and looked better.

Didn't realise Button was that old. There's no denying it looked poor in Tron but I do think it has come on a good amount. Young Arnie looked pretty good in Gensys.

I'm in two minds about it. I've yet to see it pulled off over an entire film convincingly but considering how great Blomkamp's films look with their photorealistic CG creations (Prawns, Chappie), if it could be pulled off in anyone's film, I'm sure it'd be Blomkamp's.

Quote from: Xenomorphine on Nov 20, 2016, 12:22:00 AM
Bishop models have no reason to use organic skin (David 8 didn't). There isn't any reason they would biologically age.

Bishop's a much later model, so why not? I'm not saying I really like the idea of androids physical features being able to age but it's not implausible.

Bishop was all trashed at the end of aliens. Just have him transplant his artificial-person conscience into a more mature looking Bishop and have him explain that after all of these years it's his way of expressing his utter depression of not being the top of the line anymore. Why are we even discussing this. It's the only way to be sure Bishop gets into this movie without youth-cgi. Think of the money saved on the cgi budget.

Or perhaps he could be some other form of robotic entity and voice that?

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Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 21, 2016, 12:58:55 PM
Or perhaps he could be some other form of robotic entity and voice that?

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This is probably a good way of doing it. "Everything gets sent back to the company." It's easy enough to have his whole program saved on file somewhere deep within Weyland Yutani's evil-doings division. From there they could do exactly that.

Quote from: PsyKore on Nov 21, 2016, 01:45:57 PMIt's easy enough to have his whole program saved on file somewhere deep within Weyland Yutani's evil-doings division. From there they could do exactly that.

But why would they bother? They don't need him for anything.

Could have done it himself. Or Hicks or Ripley could have orchestrated it.

Quote from: HuDaFuK on Nov 21, 2016, 02:05:04 PM

Quote from: PsyKore on Nov 21, 2016, 01:45:57 PMIt's easy enough to have his whole program saved on file somewhere deep within Weyland Yutani's evil-doings division. From there they could do exactly that.

But why would they bother? They don't need him for anything.

I can't answer this. I wasn't even thinking of reasons to do it. But it would have to serve the plot in some form to make Ripley want to inject Bishop's data into another android. The writers would need to think up a reason that they need him apart from "just because he was in ALIENS".

Or like Hicks said, he could do it himself.

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 21, 2016, 12:58:55 PM
Or perhaps he could be some other form of robotic entity and voice that?

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Dude, that's the very definition of an over gloried cameo. I mean shit, if we're going that route why not just hire a sexy lady to play the role of gender swap Bishop.

Quote from: whiterabbit on Nov 22, 2016, 08:39:52 AM

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 21, 2016, 12:58:55 PM
Or perhaps he could be some other form of robotic entity and voice that?

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if we're going that route why not just hire a sexy lady to play the role of gender swap Bishop.

"I might be sexy... but I'm not stupid".

Quote from: whiterabbit on Nov 22, 2016, 08:39:52 AM

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 21, 2016, 12:58:55 PM
Or perhaps he could be some other form of robotic entity and voice that?

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Dude, that's the very definition of an over gloried cameo. I mean shit, if we're going that route why not just hire a sexy lady to play the role of gender swap Bishop.

I was going to say...well if it serves the story but the basic concept of the film isn't about serving any story, it's about bringing back dead characters/actors.

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 22, 2016, 08:51:52 AM

Quote from: whiterabbit on Nov 22, 2016, 08:39:52 AM

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 21, 2016, 12:58:55 PM
Or perhaps he could be some other form of robotic entity and voice that?

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Dude, that's the very definition of an over gloried cameo. I mean shit, if we're going that route why not just hire a sexy lady to play the role of gender swap Bishop.

I was going to say...well if it serves the story but the basic concept of the film isn't about serving any story, it's about bringing back dead characters/actors.

Totally.

This is my opinion but it really is a joke. I'm actually fine with it but I mean it's just been too damn long already, if given the choice new is better than old. Of course I say that 10 minutes after saying that I want to see the original alien back on film but lets be honest. Aliens don't age. :P

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 21, 2016, 12:58:55 PM
Or perhaps he could be some other form of robotic entity and voice that?

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Or maybe something like this
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