Demian Bichir, who can be seen in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, is the latest crew member heading to the Engineers’ home planet in Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel that’s also the beginning of a trilogy that will eventually bridge into Alien.
He joins Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston and Danny McBride in the film set to lens in Australia’s New South Wales.
“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.”
Fox has set Alien: Covenant for theaters on Oct. 6, 2017.
Noomi Rapace, who played “Dr. Elizabeth Shaw” in Prometheus, is allegedly not returning to reprise her role.
Late last year Scott also excited us all when he said, “We’ll have them all: egg, face-hugger, chest-burster, then the big boy.” He also explained that the film will reveal a destroyed Engineer planet, and also shared plans for an expanded universe that will eventually bridge directly into his 1979 Alien.
