Last week, actor Lance Henriksen, along with collaborator Joseph Maddrey, gave us the scoop on a new comic they’re collaborating on. Henriksen also gave us updates on forthcoming screen work, including his ongoing efforts to help get a feature follow-up to his cult TV series MILLENNIUM off the ground.

“That’s gone viral,” he says of the fan campaign, speaking to Fango at New Jersey’s recent Monster Mania convention. “We get it from all over the world. People are clamoring for this thing. Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz are interested, it’s just a matter of who’s going to step forward first and pull the trigger. It’s ready to be done, and there have been millions of cards and letters going into Fox, to the point where about six months ago they went, ‘Stop.’ And our answer to that was, ‘Double up.’ We’re trying to get them to crack and say, ‘OK, let’s take the meeting.’ Isn’t this a great way to do it? It’s all fan-based. I don’t call them fans, I call them the tribe. Tribe members. And they’ll all be in the front row when it happens.” While there isn’t a finished script at this point, the actor adds, “There are finished concepts, which is more important. The script is easy.”

Another Fox property fans would love to see Henriksen involved with is PROMETHEUS, Ridley Scott’s sort-of follow-up to ALIEN. The actor has been involved in almost all the entries in the xenomorph saga save Scott’s original (which didn’t stop one Monster Mania attendee from bringing up a poster of the ’79 film for Henriksen to sign), and his presence in the director’s new movie would bring his involvement full circle. But for now, he says, “Everybody’s talking about that, but Ridley Scott hasn’t called me, so I don’t know what’s going to happen. I love Ridley Scott, what can I say? We’ll see what happens.”

Henriksen will be heard but not seen as the voice of the announcer in the upcoming horror/wrestling opus MONSTER BRAWL, and he also has a thriller called AMBUSH targeting a spring 2012 unveiling. Directed by Joe Bauer based on his same-titled short film, AMBUSH casts Henriksen as “a Ted Turner kind of character who has an epiphany. He sees in the paper that some homeless guy got burned alive for no reason, and he goes down to avenge it, and he does. And that’s where the movie starts—it’s the first 20 pages of the script, which we’ve already shot. I won’t tell you the rest, but he’s a multibillionaire and his life is completely turned upside down by this one event.” We’ll keep you posted as we learn more about this one. 

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