THE HATEFUL EIGHT Co-Star Demián Bichir Joins ALIEN: COVENANT
Those of you who saw The Hateful Eight, you'll be happy to hear that co-star Demián Bichir has joined the cast of Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant. Bichir played Bob in the Quentin Tarantino film and he pretty much stole every scene that he was in. The guy was freakin' awesome in that movie and it's great to see that he landed a role in another high-profile film.
The news of the casting comes from Deadline, but there are no details regarding the character that he'll be playing. I can't help but think he'll be one of the characters that meets a bloody death, though. Whatever role he takes in the film, I'm sure he'll be fantastic.
He joins a wonderfully talented cast that already includes Michael Fassbender, who is reprising his role as the android David, Katherine Waterston, who will play a character named Daniels, and Danny McBride, who will have a lead role in the film and I can't help but think is going to add some interesting comic relief. The report also says that Noomi Rapace is in the film, which is interesting because previous reports indicated that her Dr. Elizabeth Shaw wouldn't be returning. I guess we'll have to wait and see how that shakes out.
Covenant takes place ten years after the events in Prometheus, and Scott has previously stated that the movie will have a "pretty hard R" rating. He really wants to do something special with this movie, and bring back elements that made his first Alien film so great. To help do this, the director has said that every version of the Xenomoph we've seen will appear in this movie. Here's the official synopsis:
Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in ALIEN with ALIEN: COVENANT, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with PROMETHEUS — and connects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work of science fiction. 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 (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.
Alien: Covenant will open in theaters on October 6th, 2016.