Rebecca Ferguson is as booked and busy as any year she’s had in her career, already starring in two different projects so far in 2026. Ferguson has already starred in the critically acclaimed fantasy film, The Magic Faraway Tree, with Andrew Garfield. This summer, she’ll return to her role as Juliette Nichols in the beloved Apple TV sci-fi show, Silo, but even that isn’t her biggest sci-fi return on the agenda. She’ll briefly be seen as Lady Jessica in Dune: Part Three, which is set to be one of the biggest blockbusters of the year, despite coming out on the same day as Avengers: Doomsday. After having a key role in the first two Dune films, which were directed by Denis Villeneuve, Ferguson has confirmed that she will have only one scene in the trilogy-capper.
Before The Magic Faraway Tree, though, Ferguson opened the floodgates with the controversial AI sci-fi thriller, Mercy, which co-stars Chris Pratt. The film bombed at the box office before going on to secure coveted ground on Prime Video for weeks on end, but its run of dominance has finally come to an end. However, while Mercy isn’t topping charts around the world, it’s still hanging around in the top 10 on Prime Video in a handful of countries around the world, which is an impressive feat, considering the film first arrived in January. Mercy just feels like the type of movie that was better suited for a streaming release over a theatrical release anyway, and fans are proving that it may have been better off going straight to Prime Video. It holds scores of 24% from critics but 84% from audiences on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
What Is ‘Mercy’ About?
Mercy follows a detective, Chris Raven (played by Chris Pratt), who is accused of killing his wife. The film takes place in an alternate, dystopian future where those accused of serious crimes like murder must stand trial in front of a Mercy court, which is held by an AI judge. After finding himself wrongfully accused of murdering his wife and with the evidence stacked against him, Chris Raven has only 90 minutes to prove his innocence and find his way out of the chair. Annabelle Wallis, famed for her role in Peaky Blinders, also has a key role in Mercy. Timur Bekmambetov directed the film with a script from Marco van Belle.
Check out Mercy on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Rebecca Ferguson’s future projects.
