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Noomi Rapace Returning in ‘Alien: Covenant’!

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8 years ago

June 20, 2016

Nearly everything reported has me excited about Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, with one exception: the reports that Noomi Rapace wouldn’t be returning as Dr. Elizabeth Shaw.

When Prometheus was announced, it was to be a standalone one-shot event film that would bridge directly into Scott’s 1979 Alien. Then, Damon Lindelof was tapped for major rewrites, turning the solo film into a major trilogy – with the same end result. By extending the storyline, Rapace’s character, Elizabeth Shaw, survives and heads to the Engineers’ home planet to make them answer for their attempted genocide of the planet Earth. Her tour guide would be none other than the android David, played by the great Michael Fassbender.

So, when the full cast was revealed – including Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Demian Bichirm, Danny McBride, Alex England, Billy Crudup, Amy Seimetz, Jussie Smollett, Carmen Ejogo, and Callie Hernandez – it was beyond strange that Rapace wasn’t included. I mean, what the fuck, am I right?

There were conflicting reports, and I had even heard Rapace would be returning; but with each announcement made by FOX that curiously left out her name, I started to accept that she’d be written off in some sort of bullshit way like they did with Michael Biehn’s character in Alien3 (so many angry fists).

But like the miracle of Engineer-created black ooze, or Elizabeth Shaw’s miraculously conceived baby, it appears Rapace will in fact star in Alien: Covenant, the now filming sequel to Prometheus. Deadline reports that Rapace is in Australia and on the set to shoot weeks worth of scenes in Scott’s film.

With this news, Covenant now has not one, but two strong female leads with Waterston playing REDACTED (click here).

In the film, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world — whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David (Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.

Alien: Covenant is scheduled for release August 4, 2017.

Brad Miska

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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‘Stream’ – Horror Movie from the Team Behind ‘Terrifier’ Sets August Theatrical Release

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5 mins ago

April 23, 2024

John Squires

While you wait for Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3 later this year from Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting, the team’s next horror movie Stream is headed to theaters in August.

Deadline has announced this afternoon that Terrifier 2 theatrical distributor Iconic Events Releasing will bring Stream to theaters nationwide on August 21, 2024.

The film will be coming to theaters in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Director Michael Leavy‘s Stream comes from Fuzz on the Lens Productions with the film’s makeup FX being handled by Terrifier and Terrifier 2 director Damien Leone!

Leavy said in a statement today, “We are beyond thrilled to partner with Iconic Events Releasing again, but this time to bring an all new and modern horror film to the big screen! We built a very good relationship with Iconic through Terrifier 2 and now with the upcoming Terrifier 3, so we are honored to keep this train rolling and continue to deliver fun and exciting horror movies to our incredible fanbase and beyond.”

The cast is stacked with familiar faces, including Tony Todd (Candyman), Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator / Would You Rather), Danielle Harris (Halloween 4, 5 / Hatchet 2), Tim Reid (Stephen King’s IT / WKRP Cincinnati), Dee Wallace (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial / The Howling), Mark Holton (Leprechaun), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp / A Nun’s Curse), Daniel Roebuck (The Fugitive / Final Destination), Dave Sheridan (Scary Movie / The Devil’s Rejects), Terry Alexander (Day of the Dead / Night of the Living Dead II), David Howard Thornton (Terrifier / Terrifier 2), Charles Edwin Powell (Exorcist III/Screamers), Bob Adrian (The Conjuring 2), Sydney Malakeh (Cheer Camp Killer), Wesley Holloway (Terrifier 2), Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night), and Michael Leavy (Terrifier).

In the film, “As the Keenan’s try to bring their family closer together, they unwittingly enter themselves into a game of life or death. With four deranged killers patrolling the halls of their hotel and competing for the most creative kills, the odds are definitely stacked against them.”

Produced by Steven Della Salla (Terrifier 2, Abnormal Attraction), Jason Leavy (Terrifier 2, Abnormal Attraction), Michael Leavy (Terrifier 2, Abnormal Attraction, Pennywise The Story of IT), Marcus Slabine (Dark Offerings, Island of the Dead), Damien Leone (Terrifier, Terrifier 2), Phil Falcone (Terrifier, Terrifier 2, Joes War) and George Steuber (Terrifier, Terrifier 2).