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6 Very Different Choices For Who Should Play Lisbeth Salander

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Ben Robins with six very different choices for who should play Lisbeth Salander in The Girl in the Spider’s Web… Hollywood has spoken and whether we like it or not, the Millennium series is getting a facelift. The original Swedish-language The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo famously kickstarted the career of Prometheus’ Noomi Rapace, whilst David […]

Movie Review – Unlocked (2017)

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Unlocked, 2017. Directed by Michael Apted. Starring Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom, Toni Collette, Michael Douglas and John Malkovich. SYNOPSIS: Former CIA interrogator Alice (Noomi Rapace) is working undercover in a London community centre.  She’s reluctant to go back to her old job because of her failure to “unlock” a suspect, which resulted in terrorist attack which […]

Noomi Rapace set to take centre stage in Amy Winehouse biopic

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The team behind an upcoming biopic of British singer Amy Winehouse are reportedly in talks with Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) to play the role of the controversial star. SEE ALSO: Noomi Rapace to play opera singer Maria Callas in new biopic SEE ALSO: Amy Winehouse doc set to become the UK’s highest-grossing British documentary Screen Daily […]

Noomi Rapace won’t be returning for Alien: Covenant

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Since its announcement, everyone assumed that Noomi Rapace would return for Prometheus 2, which was re-titled to Alien: Paradise Lost and then to Alien: Covenant. But according to its director Ridley Scott, Rapace won’t be along for another outing. “No,” Scott answered when asked if Rapace was coming back. “We’re still casting the main roles.” This […]

Ridley Scott confirms Noomi Rapace for Alien: Covenant

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Last month 20th Century Fox released the official synopsis for Alien: Covenant, the upcoming follow-up to Prometheus, and while Michael Fassbender’s David was mentioned as returning, Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth Shaw was somewhat conspicuous by her absence. Well, director Ridley Scott has now confirmed that Rapace will be back, albeit in a minor capacity, while Fassbender […]

Noomi Rapace to play opera singer Maria Callas in new biopic

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Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Prometheus) has signed on to play the influential opera singer Maria Callas in a new romantic biopic entitled Callas, which is set to be directed by Niko Caro (Whale Rider, North Country) and will revolve around the passionate relationship she had with Aristotle Onassis over almost two […]

Movie Review – Child 44 (2015)

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Child 44, 2015. Directed by Daniel Espinosa. Starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman, Joel Kinnaman, Jason Clarke, Paddy Considine and Vincent Cassel. SYNOPSIS: A disgraced member of the military police investigates a series of nasty child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.   Based on Tom Rob Smith’s 2008 novel; Child 44 proves how […]

Yvonne Strahovski joins Noomi Rapace in Angel of Mine

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Yvonne Strahovski (Dexter) will be joining Noomi Rapace in the thriller Angel of Mine, per Deadline. The film, to be directed by Kim Farrant, sees Rapace as Lizzie, a mother who is still struggling with the loss of her daughter when she becomes convinced that a stranger’s daughter is actually hers. Strahovski will portray Claire, the […]

New trailer for Bright starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton

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Netflix has released a new trailer for its fantasy action-thriller Bright, which sees director David Ayer (End of Watch, Suicide Squad) directing Will Smith and Joel Edgerton as two LAPD police officers – one human and one orc – who form a most unlikely duo working to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe […]