UPDATE: Michael Biehn Officially Returning As 'Hicks' In Neill Blomkamp's ALIEN Movie

The director had said he hoped to see Michael Biehn reprise the role of Corporal Dwayne Hicks after the character was killed off in Alien 3, and now the actor himself has confirmed that he's on board.

By MarkCassidy - Mar 19, 2015 12:03 PM EST

Filed Under: Alien

UPDATE: This is actually a fake Instagram account that fooled us all. So though Biehn may well return, it's not official just yet. Sorry!

Michael Biehn will be Hicks in Neill Blomkamp Alien

Though we all hoped to see Hicks again after Neill Blomkamp's concept art featured an older, scarred (and evidently resurrected) version of the character, we weren't certain that Michael Biehn would be returning to play him in the director's planned Alien movie. Well now the actor himself has posted the following to his Instagram page.

"It's official. I will be reprising my role as 'Cpl.' (Not for long...) Dwayne Hicks. With the go-ahead, Hicks will return with Ripley in mid 2017. Perhaps Hicks and Ripley well eventually get to second base in this one..."

Not a Corporal for long? Demotion or promotion? It'll be interesting to see how they pull this off convincingly. Either the movie will be set between James Cameron's Aliens and David Fincher's Alien 3 (unlikely considering the ages of the returning cast members), they'll say that wasn't Hicks' mangled corpse after all, or they'll be disregarding the last 2 movies in the series completely -- something Blomkamp has denied will happen. Whatever happens, it'll be great to have Biehn back as Hicks anyway. The movie is actually expected to begin filming as early as this July, and that's backed up by Biehn stating that he's had to pull out of attending the Sheffield Comic-Con in August due to Alien shooting conflicts.

It's official, I will be reprising my role as 'Cpl.' (Not for long...) Dwayne Hicks. With the go ahead, Hicks will return with Ripley in Mid 2017. Perhaps Hicks and Ripley well eventually get to second base in this one... #alien

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DeusExSponge - 3/19/2015, 12:05 PM

Oh my... Can't wait for Neil's take on the Alien franchise!

Jcool - 3/19/2015, 12:05 PM

@Jollem Said no one ever.

GreedoSarducci - 3/19/2015, 12:07 PM

Anybody checked Carrie Henn's Twitter feed yet today?

xxxxxxx - 3/19/2015, 12:08 PM

After Elysium and Chappie I really don't want him to direct. Diatrict 9 is his only good movie thus far, and they're steadily declining in quality.

SoFresh - 3/19/2015, 12:09 PM

Chappie

That is all

Danbojohnj - 3/19/2015, 12:09 PM

Bets Newt was infected when she was briefly abducted.

MrCBM56 - 3/19/2015, 12:10 PM

Funny how Neil Blomkamp would be my biggest worry.

SKOne - 3/19/2015, 12:11 PM

So are they going to be using digital de-aging software on this? Hopefully it will be better than Tron Legacy if they do.

Tars - 3/19/2015, 12:12 PM

4th time's the charm for Neil?

DarthCMPunk - 3/19/2015, 12:13 PM

thats a fake Instagram account....

LuisFcknLorenzo - 3/19/2015, 12:13 PM

Chappie was awesome, very well directed and awesome visuals, the only problem was in the script... And I dont wanna spoil.

CaptainObvious - 3/19/2015, 12:14 PM

If this Alien film is a disaster, I'm done with Neill Blomkamp.

Also, if haven't seen Chappie, don't bother with it.

grif - 3/19/2015, 12:15 PM

this movie is picking up steam very quickly

glad the 3rd and 4th movie will not be ignored.

Pasto - 3/19/2015, 12:17 PM

Go watch Chappie, then tell me how excited for this film you are.

xxxxxxx - 3/19/2015, 12:18 PM

@MrCBM It's so strange that we're currently not anticipating an ALIEN movie coming from Neil Bloomkemp and Ridley Scott.

ManDeth - 3/19/2015, 12:19 PM

Glad to see his boss at McDs let him off to do the movie. Bravo.

Asmodeus - 3/19/2015, 12:26 PM

Chewbacca is a wookie.

CplHicks - 3/19/2015, 12:26 PM

I'm back and still frosty!

NoAssemblyReqd - 3/19/2015, 12:31 PM

In my mind, every movie after ALIENS (except PROMETHEUS) never happened. The now hard-to-find Dark Horse sequel (featuring older Hicks and Newt) was a much more fitting continuation of the story, even though Ripley didn't re-appear until many issues in.

To be honest, I'd be happy even if all this Blomkamp project entailed was a 10-minute one-shot confirming ALIEN 3 and 4 were horrible dreams.

Hellboy6666 - 3/19/2015, 12:32 PM

Chappie is a much better film to me than the average critic is making it out to be. Blomkamps not exactly a revolutionary but he's at least trying to be different, trite ideas or not. I think his films are interesting.
I'm ok with writing off Alien 3-on, if that is the plan.

CplHicks - 3/19/2015, 12:33 PM

@Jollem (Gasp) Just for that you're walking perimeter;)

Hellboy6666 - 3/19/2015, 12:33 PM

I'm not sure how anyone can watch Alien and Aliens and then say, "meh".........maybe it's just the 80's child in me but that is some heretical nonsense.

Matador - 3/19/2015, 12:35 PM

@Gusto - whats wrong with orignal Newt she can still hide like the best of em'.

Deschain99 - 3/19/2015, 12:40 PM

Marines we are leaving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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UPDATE: Michael Biehn Officially Returning As 'Hicks' In Neill Blomkamp's ALIEN Movie

The director had said he hoped to see Michael Biehn reprise the role of Corporal Dwayne Hicks after the character was killed off in Alien 3, and now the actor himself has confirmed that he's on board.

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