SCREAM VI Star Samara Weaving Shares Halloween Photoshoot As THE FIFTH ELEMENT's Leeloo

SCREAM VI Star Samara Weaving Shares Halloween Photoshoot As THE FIFTH ELEMENT's Leeloo

We've seen quite a few celebs dress as Leeloo from The Fifth Element over the years, but Samara Weaving might have outdone them all with this Halloween photoshoot...

By MarkCassidy - Oct 31, 2024 04:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Scream
Source: Via SFF Gazette

Milla Jovovich's Leeloo from Luc Besson's '90s sci-fi movie, The Fifth Element, has always been a very popular costume choice among celebrities around this time of year, but we're not sure anyone has ever pulled off this look quite as well as Samara Weaving.

The Australian actress and model - who has become known as something of a "Scream Queen" thanks to roles in the likes of Ready Or Not, Scream VI, The Babysitter and this year's Azrael - shared some shots from her Halloween photoshoot to Instagram, showcasing the outfit Leeloo spends most of the movie in, along with the more recognizable white costume.

The Fifth Element was a pretty big box office success overseas (it still holds the second-highest opening of all time in France, behind Independence Day), but underperformed in the US. While it was highly divisive among critics at the time of its release, it has since come to be regarded as a cult classic - although many would argue that this is because it falls into the "so bad it's good" category.

However you may happen to feel about the movie, there has always been a lot of interest in a sequel. A follow-up is highly unlikely at this stage, but writer Robert Kamen revealed that another movie was originally planned during a 2023 interview with Uproxx.

"[The script for The Fifth Element] was actually 180 pages, and then [Luc Besson] added a second part to it, which made no sense either. We were going to do it as a sequel, but it made no sense, and The Fifth Element wasn't big enough here. It was huge in the rest of the world, and it's a classic, but it only did $75 million here or $80 million. It was way ahead of its time. So we never did the sequel, and the sequel would have been taking the other 180-page thing [Luc Besson] had and working it into a script."

Check out Weaving's photos at the links below.

Weaving is set to reprise the role of Grace for a Ready Or Not sequel, and officially announced her return earlier this month.

"The Earth is about to be destroyed by a huge ball of fire racing toward the planet. Cornelius, an old monk, knows how to stop the burning sphere with the help of Korben Dallas, a taxi driver and former secret agent and a woman named Leeloo."

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ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 10/31/2024, 4:21 AM
She was the best Harley Quinn.
Gambito
Gambito - 10/31/2024, 4:32 AM
I always wondered why they never made a sequel, I thought potential…. but then I watched Valerian. THANK GOD THAT DIDNT HAPPEN 😂😂🤮🤮
Reginator
Reginator - 10/31/2024, 8:03 AM
@Gambito - yea Valerian was awful
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 10/31/2024, 9:22 AM
@Gambito - god that movie was soooo bad
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 10/31/2024, 6:11 AM
I mean if they ever wanted to do a remake she'd be great.
HermanM
HermanM - 10/31/2024, 6:46 AM
The Fifth Element sucked. So does Bladerunner and 2001 A Space Odyssey.

Unpopular opinions in the scifi world but give me the 1970s Buck Rogers show over them.
FrankenDad
FrankenDad - 10/31/2024, 7:00 AM
Ünderbüb
comicfan100
comicfan100 - 10/31/2024, 7:26 AM
I see how much grace the users on the site afford to certain celebrities Halloween costumes.
TheNewYorker
TheNewYorker - 10/31/2024, 8:08 AM
@comicfan100 - Of course.
phoenixvici
phoenixvici - 10/31/2024, 7:51 AM
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WEAPONXOXOXO
WEAPONXOXOXO - 10/31/2024, 8:14 AM
@phoenixvici - damn it! you beat me to it!
CoHost
CoHost - 10/31/2024, 8:26 AM
She's Margot Robbie with bigger eyes and a bigger ass.
MahN166A
MahN166A - 10/31/2024, 8:31 AM
Seeing a lot of people on her page commenting about wanting to see her in a reboot or remake.

Nah. They try to remake that film, it’s gonna end up receiving The Crow (2024) treatment from fans.
Can’t replicate magic like that from that film. Especially since it was so so well done for a movie in the late 90s.

Leave that one alone and save yourselves from a financial loss.

Now back to the primary topic. Samara looks great. Albeit a very simple costume, she does remind me of Milla Jovovich with some of the expressions she uses. Hope she had fun with it
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 10/31/2024, 8:49 AM
@MahN166A - 100%. Not every movie needs a remake. Most don't, actually. The original was already half-way a remake of Heavy Metal, anyway.
MuadDib
MuadDib - 10/31/2024, 10:04 AM
@MahN166A - The Crow remake is probably the worst remake I’ve ever seen, that’s not an exaggeration.

I totally agree, remaking The 5th Element would be a huge undertaking and would be unnecessary. The original still holds up very well and is unlikely to be dethroned as the best version of itself.

All that said, it’s a nice photo shoot and this girl could easily be cast as any number of comic book characters.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 10/31/2024, 8:50 AM
Man, I saw Fifth Element at the midnight show in the bad part of town SO MANY TIMES. Me and my crew were/are obsessed.
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 10/31/2024, 9:23 AM
big fan of the fifth element, even though i Know its a bad movie. its one of those i can throw on the Tv anytime and just sit back, turn my brain off and enjoy... or i can multitask.. its great
MuadDib
MuadDib - 10/31/2024, 10:06 AM
Idk why the fifth element gets so much hate, it was an instant classic. There are so many great lines and scenes. The music and the visuals and the actors really pull it all together. Just rewatched it in theaters not that long ago. It really holds up well all these years later.
TK420
TK420 - 10/31/2024, 11:32 AM
@MuadDib - I didn't know it got any. I've never talked to anybody who doesn't like it.
TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 10/31/2024, 10:18 AM
Samara is probably my favorite actress at this point. I'm almost guaranteed to watch anything she makes. She rarely misses.
Radders
Radders - 11/1/2024, 3:54 AM
@TheFinestSmack - She does seem to pick some really cool projects
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 10/31/2024, 12:59 PM
Really have liked her in Ready or Not and the Babysitter films.
And hot damn, does she really rock that look! Wow
Radders
Radders - 11/1/2024, 3:54 AM
@HeavyMetal4Life - Check out Mayhem
X75
X75 - 10/31/2024, 1:16 PM
Star of Scream VI? She’s in it for maybe 5 minutes.

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