Avatar isn’t the first time its female stars have voyaged into the final frontier — although only Zoe Saldana is planning a return trip to her other science-fiction franchise.
She says she expects to reprise her role as communications officer Uhura in a Star Trek sequel next year.
Predictably, though, she’s tight-lipped about what fans can expect, adding only that she’d like to see the sequel explore the aftermath of the destruction of Spock’s home planet, Vulcan. What about those rumours director J.J. Abrams and his screenwriters are going to reboot the iconic villain Khan originally portrayed by Ricardo Montalban? Again, even a mind-meld probably wouldn’t extract that information from her.
“(The filmmakers) are very excited. There is a lot of pressure. What do you do? Do you redo the Wrath of Khan or something else? I told them just to do what they did the first time — which is to trust themselves. Because by not listening to anyone they were able to create something free that we still grew attached to. So if that formula worked for the first Star Trek, it can certainly work for the next one.”
Elsewhere in Hollywood, another Alien sequel — the fifth in the horror series if you don’t count those Alien vs. Predator monster mashes — is being mapped out. At last report, Ridley Scott, who directed the original 1979 Alien, had agreed to helm the project.
Sigourney Weaver, though, doesn’t expect to be involved. “It’s been done. Let’s move on. I know they’re going to do a prequel thing and I’m glad Ridley’s involved with it. But I don’t think I could be in a prequel,” she says, laughing. “But also I think that creature has had its day.”
Not that Weaver is slamming the shuttlebay doors on the idea of returning to sci-fi again, as she has with Avatar.
“When we explore all these other life forms, we come back to this question of what it is to be human … I think science-fiction has that capacity to going way out there and bringing us back to ourselves in a way.”
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