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Greetings, tube tuners! HREF=mailto:robogeek@robogeek.com>ROBOGEEK here with a quick newsflash for ya...
Variety reports this morning that XENA star Lucy Lawless has signed on to guest star in the first two episodes of Fox's THE X-FILES this season (which kicks off Nov. 4) - with "a chance" that she could appear in additional episodes ("though nothing's been decided").
"Details regarding the Lawless character are being kept under wraps," reads the oh-so-brief article, while executive producer Frank Spotnitz cryptically promises, "We think we've found an interesting and unexpected way to have her join the family."
Hmmm... Could she be playing Mulder and Scully's platonic love-child, all grown up and time traveling back from the future? Stranger things have happened...
Read the story (what there is of it) for yourself at this link.
- Robogeek
P.S.: Now if only Warner Bros. will wake up and court her for WONDER WOMAN! Talk about metaphysically perfect casting!
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I see her as a mysterious "head in a box," which sits on the desk and is consulted on supernatural occurrences. "All right?" "S'all right. Close the box."
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...But does anyone know how to prevent this stupid new virus that's going around. I've received 96 e-mails within the week (that's right... 96 of 'em!) with the same message from different people with an attachment that I won't dare to open. I've been deleting these things everyday... but there's like TEN FREAKING MESSAGES A DAY!!!! I've tried to 'Block Sender'... but it ain't working. Any ideas out there? Oh, well... back to the article. Lucy Lawless should be a nice little change of pace the way Robert Patrick was for this past year. I'm hoping her accent sticks this time!
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This is how Fox wants to revitalize a stalemate TV-series? By using a celebrity whose popularity has already peaked? Too little, too late, guys. I used to really like The X-Files, but now it's just annoying-- recycling plot lines and dragging out weak story arcs that lead nowhere. Why don't they just wrap it up already, and let us all get on with our lives?
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First theres this talks about Scully in a lesbian affair with that ditzy female agent, next thing theres THIS!
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Jennifer Connelly would definitely be a better choice for WW. She has this charm about her... she's sweet but she's powerful. I like that.
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It's a Vince McMahnon world, baby! "Actresses" on trailer-trash series that are more known for their 'sensible shoe' fans and 'popping out' during a national anthem are now on the X-Files. See, the bullshit thing is, I thought that Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf was going to play Scully's baby, and Beetlejuice was going to be the new Krychek. He did dress up like an "X-Files" when Duchovny was last on Stern. "But me? Hey, I don't think so, PAL!!! Hey, me? I watch the X-File, oh, 'bout 44 times."
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. . .but Lucy Lawless is definately my first choice for the role. She's beautiful, can act and has been playing a variation on the character for Goddess knows how long on XENA. The important thing, though, is the script--it needs to be an epic, SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE-type story, not a brainless T&A fest ala CHARLIE'S ANGELS. As for X-Files, fuck it. Haven't watched it for years; it's become a boring, pointless journey to nowhere that should have been wrapped up ages ago. I hear Gillian Anderson is abandoning ship after this season, is that true? I sure hope so--HOUSE OF MIRTH showed (to me anyway) that she can have a viable movie career ahead of her if only she'll get off of the Titanic, er, I mean X-Files.
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It is interesting that other readers see these two actresses as competative with one another for similiar roles; just last night some friends and I were discussing who could best play Betty Page in a biopic and both Jennifer Connoly and Lucy Lawless were our choices. Interesting, to say the least.
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the show could have stayed just fine with only Skinner and Scully investigating the X files(with the Lone Gunmen on cameo appearances, of course). Not that I didn't like Robert Patrick's character last season. I think it's just their lame attempt of getting the Xena crowd.
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Sleazy G, what episodes did you watch? Anyone who's seen those episodes where she plays 3 or 4 different characters all pretending to be each other knows she's an amazing actress. She just does these tiny things that show it's Meg pretending to be Xena, or the virgin priestess pretneding to be Meg, and it's just so damn cool. And as the world's biggest JC fan, I still think LL is a better choice than JC for WW, although I'm sure if WB asked her, JC could work out enough to be buff enough to look Amazonian. If it's her height anyone's worried about, hell, Weta managed to make the hobbits look miniature, I'm sure making JC seem 6'4 can't be that hard.
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Well not really but things have been pretty dead around these parts over the past few weeks haven't they? Anyways, the old "Who should play Wonder Woman" debate. Sorry idiots, I love Lucy Lawless as much as the next guy but SHE WOULD MAKE AN AWFUL WONDER WOMAN. First of all SHE'S A TV ACTRESS not a film actress(those of you with true taste know the difference). Second, casting her as WW would be stupid because her performance would just be derivative of Xena. Let's see her in some movies first to see if she's got the chops to carry a feature all by herself. You idiots who don't want Jennifer Conelly because she's too soft to play WW must all be seriously GAY. Most actors spend six weeks in the gym prepping for action roles once they are cast in them. So if Jennifer were casts they'd probably buff her up for the role anyway. Those of you who don't think she can play tough or don't think she's a good enough actress should go rent Requiem for a Dream or better yet rent that flick she did with Billy Cudrup whose title currently escapes me. Truth be told though I think they'll end up going with an unknown IF they make a WW movie at all. But since I'm more into Brunettes than Blonds anyday of the week here's my top 5 choices for WW (not so much to star in the actual movie so much as to see in the costume and then have them tie me up with the "magic lasso")# 5)KATIE HOLMES - When did she get so freekin'tall? One minute she's Tobey's little crush in the "The Ice Storm" the next minute she's 5 foot 11, taking her shirt off in "The Gift" and she's visibly taller than most of the male members of the cast exept for Keanu and Gary Cole. Has she always been this tall and they just shot around it? If she didn't have that racoon face I'd say cast her. #4)CHARISMA CARPENTER - No she'd never ever actually get the part because she hasn't proved herself playing anybody but Cordelia. But who cares. I just want to see that rack and those sweet gams in the costume. Maybe Joss can do it as a gag for a Halloween Episode of Angel. She could be WW, Angel could be Superman, Gunn could be Black Lightning and Wesley could be Alfred. "Why are dressed like Alfred, that's so lame." #3)TERRI FARRELL - She's basically a dead ringer for Linda Carter. If they ever say fuck it and just decide to do another TV version she'd have my full vote.#2)JENNIFER CONELLY - The most logical and obvious choice to play the Big Screen WW eventhough she hasn't yet proven herself to be box office gold all by herself and she is getting on in the years I would fork over $10.00 in a heart beat just to see those melons in that tight golden corset. Plus she can actually act. But like I said The studios will most likely go with an unknown or whoever is "hot" at the moment. They were pretty close to getting Shannon Elizabeth two years ago. Joel Silver has got the rights to this so God help us.And my #1 choice for WW(like I said, not so much for the movie so much as to dress up in the costume and tie me up in the magic lasso) ANGIE HARMON - Yes she does have that "creepy female Charlie Sheen" thing going on but MY GOD she is sexy. I watched Law & Order ever week for the past three years just to see her do that pissed off thing she does. She doesn't have much of a rack but I really couldn't care. She is in my opinion the sexiest woman on TV because she doesn't parade around half naked and she still ten time sexier in those dorky lawyer outfits than Jerri Ryan could ever hope to be in that catsuit. It's a shame she's throwing her career away to play wifey to some dumb athlete but what are you gonna do. If she were dressed up like WW and had me tied up I'd fess up like Chunk did to the Fratelli Bros.in Goonies.
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is because she stands on blocks. Lucy Lawless is actually shorter (and probably flatter) than Renee O'Connor, who played Gabrielle. Lucy Lawless and Jennifer Connely both would make excellent Wonder Womans, and both of them can act waaaay better than Linda Carter, so nyyaa. Jennifer Connely would have to do some serious iron pumping to convince me she had any muscles, though. About that X-Files thing, don't you think the grown up platonic love child thing was already done -- on say --- Xena? Sheesh already.
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okay, whens the scully/lucy caught in the shower episode coming on? Dumb question, but nice mental image...
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Hi gang, remember Connelly has been working for almost 20 YEARS now in BIG SCREEN movies. She was in THE ROCKETTER (directed by Joe Johnston), CARRER OPPORTUNITIES (John Hughes), and as a teen she did LABYRINTH (Jim Henson) and ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (Sergio L.) in addition to all her small indie/semi-indie films and the occasional TV series (that have been cancelled after one season, thereby not ruining her big screen cred. in the eyes of Hollywood). She has the acting chops and casting her in WW or any other genre film would be in the same vein as the casting of Patrick Stewert, Anna Paquin, and Ian McKellen in X-MEN or Christopher Reeve and Marlon Brando in SUPERMAN.----later-----m
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Jul 30, 2001 2:20:08 PM CDT
Ah yes, one of the all-time perennial Talkback discussion issues
by village idiot
Will we ever get tired of discussing this? I swear, this one issue comes up more than Phantom Menace melees. In any event, names come and names go, but Jennifer's keeps coming up again and again on our lists of Wonder Women. I've seen Requiem For A Dream, and her transition from spoiled rich girl to crack whore is better than anything you'll see this side of Traffic. Add to that the fact that she's a brick [wait for it] *house!* and she seems a natch for Wonder Woman. I used to be one of the loudest voices in favor of this casting, but recently I've actually been reading the Wonder Woman comics, and now I get what Cormorant has been saying all along: Jimenez's Wonder Woman is a bit more swarthy than I imagined Wonder Woman, and this version actually works well. We're not talking Micheal Dukakis swarthy, but definitely European. None of the suggestions on the table really fits this bill, including JC, so I'm thinking (and brace yourselves for my utter lack of originality) *cast an unknown*. A tall, thin, mildly swarthy bruenette with *large breasts*. (Although I hate to say it, *I can't stress this last part enough.*) Jennifer Connelly could still work, but I don't think this kind of project is really up her alley these days. I think she's trying to recreate the career of Julianne Moore, and not just by engaging in various nude scenes, (especially bottomless). Her choices lately seem to be in the direction of mature, independent work like the mature, independent Requiem For A Dream. Angie Harmon? Comedian you must be joking. Too thin. Not stunningly beautiful enough. Lucy Lawless? Again, just not stunningly beautiful and not Jane Russell enough. She'd never do it for the typecasting anyway. Julianna Margolis? Definitely not stunningly beautiful, although she almost has the right hair, and alas, still not Jane Russell enough. Again, they could probably find an unknown who would hit all these categories, ala Chris Reeve in 77.
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Lucy Lawless: nah.
Jennifer Connelly: nah.
CATHERINE ZETA JONES!!!!
(odd that nobody has mentioned this yet. . .)
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X-files- Xena. No genre crossbreeding.
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Village Idiot, like I said before, I don't think Angie Harmon would be so great an on screen WW so much as the WW in my mind tying me up with the magic lasso and making me spill the beans about Cheetah and Solomund Grundy's plans to open up a Piggly Wiggly(yeah, I need counseling). But she is definately beautiful enough to play WW if JC weren't up for it. And after Erin Brokovitch(or "Wonderbra The Movie" as I like to call it)there could be plenty of ways to enhance Angie's little nipplets. And I firmly stand by my comments that she IS the sexiest woman on TV(well not anymore, DAMN YOU SEEHORNE!)Funny thing is there's this movie she shot a year and a half ago that still hasn't been released where she plays the love interest of..GASP..CHARLIE SHEEN!!! What kind of sicko casting director pulled that one! SCREW WONDER WOMAN give me a incestuous, eye bulging, nostril flaring, gravelly voiced WONDER TWINS MOVIE with Angie Harmon and Charlie Sheen!!! Can't you just see the both of them making that face they make with their nostrils flared and their eyes all bugged out. "Form of...a Gorilla", "And I'll be a ...Coke Spoon..I mean Bucket of Ice".
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. . .but gorgeous Jennifer Connelly would do nicely as well. A little workout in the gym and voila! Enough definition to look the part even more then she already does. Not that it matters, though--this *is* Hollywood we're talking about, remember? With our luck they'll probably choose Pamela Anderson or Denise Richards for the part, and get the guy who wrote WILD WILD WEST to do the script. TELL me you can
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I find it hilarious that now that Xena has completed its run, this website, which is a tribute to fan boy fetishes, finally takes notice of the Flawless One! The X-Files has been on life support for the last couple of years and can use all the help it can get! Lucy's got the screen presnce to carry any production she's part of! As far WW goes, Jennifer Connelly? You've got to be kidding! I suppose if you like the, "ouch, stop my big action scene, I've broken a nail" type of actress playing the role of the Amazon hero, so be it! But since they have heavily rumored they want Sandra Bullock for the role of Wonder Woman, I say, Lucy, stay as far away as possible from this turkey! This sucker is doomed on arrival! Lucy's too classy a person and actor for such a hack eyed production as WW looks like it will be! I want Lucy and the Lone Gunmen to hook up! DD you left too soon!
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Lucy Lawless, just another patient awaiting the final operation in her sex change from man to butch woman.
Please Chris Carter stop it now, you're not big and this ain't clever.
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All I ever saw was a dark series about a woman trying to atone for the past that haunts her. What did I miss? Why are you all laughing?-----I'm pretty obviously going t0o be in the minority on this one but I actually think Lawless has better acting ability than we've seen. Perhaps some of you are suffering from bruce Campbell Syndrome. They play camp so well that you actually believe thay 're crappy actors. I guess time will tell, Bruce's guest on the X-Files convinced me of his ability.
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Nuff said!
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Hey, Carter, how about giving us some resolution? All those vague promises about exposing the liars and cover-ups and all that...no one cares anymore! I've been watching the show from the beginning, and I haven't got a clue what the hell is going on anymore. Crossings and double-crossings and agents and bounty hunters and black oil and death (lots of them--Mulder and Scully each should be wearing tight leather by now and growing whiskers), who gives a shit, really? Hell, I'm pissed I keep watching this shit. And Mulder? I'm glad he's gone! Shoulda taken Skinner with him! What happened to hard-ass Skinner? Now, we have pussy Skinner. I vote for Xena only if you allow Robert Patrick to team up with her and start blowing shit up. Mr. Carter, your show is a fucking ridiculous, convoluted joke that fails to intrigue, but rather bores. Entirely. How does this shit run for hundreds of years while Twin Peaks gets decapitated? What a world.
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Aug 01, 2001 10:01:03 AM CDT
Turns out Lucy wouldn't toss WW out of bed for eating crackers
by geekgrrl
http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,109542~1~~,00.html --- According to EWeekly, Lucy Lawless and Chyna both want the role, but it appears the producers still have their hearts set on Sandra Bullock. Still a better choice than Chyna, imho. I doubt that they would pick LL, because they want this to be the super serious, not any camp or cheese version of WW movie. Here's an odd choice that I think would work out really well. What about Hudson Leik? (I'm not sure I'm spelling that 100%) I think she could pull it off, even if she does need to eat a few sandwiches to put some meat on her bones.
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Between Scully, Skinner, Doggett, Reyes, Kersh and a "handsome male agent in mid 30's" there is going to be no room for plot, not that there has been much in the last season. Then, according to the Haven's latest batch of spoilers, Mulder has dumped Scully and his child. Which, being the only X-Files fan who doesn't worship the ground Mulder/Duchovny walks on, sounds in character considering his behavior this last season.
But I digress. This is no longer the show I once watched and enjoyed. Why didn't Chris Carter let Gillian Anderson out of her contract and start with a new batch of characters? But, that's what a guy who truly cared about his product would do and Carter isn't that guy. I only feel sorry for Anderson. She's gotten crap contracts and treatment from Carter & Co. I hope someday, when she's a megastar, she spills all the nasty details of life on the show. By then, Carter and Duchovny will be sharing a table on the sci-fi convention circuit for cash.
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Aug 02, 2001 10:13:27 PM CDT
Lucy Lawless is too closely associated to "Xena", Angie Harmon
by mayhem ensues
It'll go to someone like Eliza Dushku to grab the younger audience OR they will completely sell out and use Sandra Bullock (god help us). It doesnt matter who is most suited for the role - it's all about who will boost ticket sales. My vote? Catherine Zeta-Jones. But as long as they dont cast "Chyna" as WW I'll be happy.
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Aug 02, 2001 10:22:41 PM CDT
By the way Lucy Lawless is 5'10 1/2" and Renee O'Connor (Gabriel
by (<>..<>)abducted
Look it up
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Okay, guys, one thing we have to remember is that Wonder Woman is
also a Greek princess. Greek. In spite of her Red-White-and-Blue ensemble, Diana is a foreign princess who speaks with a definite Greek accent. Jennifer Connelly and Sandra Bullock are fine actresses in their own right, but come off a little too all-American for this particular role. Also, they just don't
"look" right for the part.
I love Lucy Lawless as much as the next Xena fan and physically she might even be right for character. Now if only she could act... Shannon Elizabeth? Heh. The woman's acting ability (and I use that term loosely) would get her booed off the stage at a 5th grade Christmas Pageant. A pox on those who would seriously consider Ms. Elizabeth for anything but the occasional one night stand. Boys, I say we go with a stunning unknown on this one...
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Wow, I didn't know that a soft Australian like New Zealand accent was manly.
Anyone who thinks Lucy Lawless cant act is out of their mind. And to even suggest that she is 'worse an actor' than Kevin Sorbo is downright insulting. Lucy Lawless was the one that made Xena watchable. I find it interesting to note that the Kiwi actors we're the ones who we're the best actors, while most of the American actors plain sucked. -
Strangely enough, that comment (JJ78) would only prove that she IS a good actress, considering you thought she "talks like a man, walks like a man". I guess people are so used to actresses who just play themselves (models in movies/tv) they forget that there are CHARACTERS.
Oh well. Ignorance abounds.
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