This goes well with my latest.
The Force Awakens is released this week!
And the latest installment of Star Wars looks set to have more active and intriguing female characters than either the originals or the prequels.
Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o and Game of Thrones’ Gwendoline Christie will appear alongside the female lead, newcomer Daisy Ridley.
The production has been shrouded in secrecy, so little is known about their roles yet.
In honour of The Force Awakens, here are my favourite movies set among the stars, and the heroines they feature.
Prometheus (2012)
It probably helps that I’m no scientist.
In fact, I was terrified of the school lab because of all the stories other pupils told me about accidental immolation and experiments gone wrong.
Besides, the teacher was as scary as the Engineer Noomi Rapace tangles with in this Alien prequel.
Perhaps because of my unscientific bent, I can ignore some of the sillier twists, errors and logical issues in Prometheus.
I mean, I can…
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