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Noomi Rapace Returning in ‘Alien: Covenant’!
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?
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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.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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