Julia Stiles Says She Was Floored By Orphan: First Kill Footage

Surprise horror prequel Orphan: First Kill hasn’t locked down a release date as of yet despite shooting calling it a wrap this past January, but audiences are going to be in for something special if they share the same sentiments as star Julia Stiles, who’s been praising William Brent Bell’s follow up every chance she gets.

The Bourne actress admitted she doesn’t have any interest in the genre whatsoever, but was won over by the concept and strength of the script, as well as teasing another major twist for a series that pulled off one hell of a rug-pull in its first installment by revealing that young Esther was actually a 33 year-old with a penchant for bloody murder.

In a very confusing turn of events, Isabelle Fuhrman is back as Esther, which sees the 24 year-old playing a 30-something that’s passing herself off as being just ten, with First Kill utilizing good old fashioned forced perspective, practical effects and camera trickery to pull it off. In a new interview, Stiles was once again effusive in her praise, saying she was floored the first time she saw footage from the film.

“The working title was Esther, which I really liked, which is the name of the girl. What’s remarkable is that Isabelle Fuhrman, who played the little girl in the original Orphan, now reprises her role as the same girl, same age, even though Isabelle’s older now. But I just went and did ADR, and I was floored. Because they didn’t use CGI. The tricks that they did with the camera and different perspective tricks that they had, plus her costume and prosthetics and all that, she looks like a child. And her performance is stunning, because she embodies a child too in the way that she talks and the way she walks.”

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Fuhrman previously claimed her return as the diminutive but deadly Esther could go down in cinematic history, which is big talk indeed for a relatively low budget chiller that’s coming eleven years after the first installment. Orphan: First Kill is expected to arrive long before the end of 2021, with the lucrative Halloween season surely under consideration to generate the maximum amount of revenue, but it’ll be very interesting to see if the movie manages to live up to the hype and expectations being placed on it by the cast.

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William Shatner Says Leonard Nimoy’s Star Trek Reboot Cameos Were Gratuitous

Whatever your opinions are of the ‘Kelvinverse’ Star Trek movies, it’s difficult to deny they raised the profile of the franchise after a shaky period. Enterprise had been a damp squib and Star Trek: Nemesis failed at the box office – leaving the beloved sci-fi franchise in a tough spot. Bringing the original crew of the USS Enterprise back played by a sexy new cast proved to be a smart decision, with their streamlined and glossy adventures spawning two sequels.

But Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, has a bone to pick with them. While he had no problem with Chris Pine playing James T. Kirk, he doesn’t think Leonard Nimoy’s ‘Spock Prime’ should have happened. In an interview with The Daily Express while promoting his new movie Senior Moment he was asked about the Kelvinverse movies and said:

“Leonard Nimoy was in some of those films, but it was totally gratuitous. They just wanted to put Spock in there and I didn’t admire that.”

This won’t come as a huge surprise to Trek fans. In 2017, it emerged that Abrams had written a part for Shatner, who turned it down, described it as “the stupidest scene I have ever heard of”, and said he’d told Nimoy that he shouldn’t have taken the job:

“When I saw Leonard in the first movie that J.J. made and he went back in time, I said to Leonard “You know you’re old when you go back in time and you’re still old! Those are gratuitous scenes!”

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It’s still a controversial opinion as Nimoy’s cameos in the first two movies tie the whole ‘Kelvinverse’ concept together. One of the more interesting twists was that the reboots embraced the fact they were part of an alternative timeline and didn’t ignore the original continuity. In addition, Nimoy died soon after the second movie, making it not only his swansong as Spock, but his final performance ever.

I can see the argument for Nimoy’s cameo in Star Trek Into Darkness being worthy of criticism as he simply appears on the viewscreen to deliver some exposition about Khan. But I liked seeing him in Star Trek (2009), proving that he still had the same gravitas and sense of presence that made Spock a science-fiction icon.

Shatner went on to say that despite all he’d said, if the part were right he’d return as Kirk:

“Y’know, Star Trek is a marvellous show. How it’s lasted all these years, why it has all these iterations, I don’t know,” he says. “I spend the time speculating why Star Trek has been and is so popular. In fact, nobody really knows. So I would be delighted to be a part of Star Trek if it was something worthy. If they could come up with a way of putting a character I played in a movie where it functioned as a point in the movie [and] made the movie move along, I’d be delighted.”

That might prove tricky given that Kirk famously died in Star Trek: Generations, but I’m sure Star Trek could find a way to resurrect their most famous captain if they really wanted to.

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