Noomi Rapace is Officially Back as Elizabeth Shaw in ALIEN: COVENANT; First Look at Danny McBride On Set
There hasn’t really been any mention of Noomi Rapace’s involvement with Alien: Covenant since the official information began rolling out. This led many to speculate and report that she wouldn’t be in the film, but apparently that’s not the case.
According to Deadline, Rapace is on the Australian set of the film shooting a week's worth of scenes. The movie is set 10 years after the events of the first film, and the last time we saw Shaw, she was rocketing off into the universe looking for the home of the Engineers with Michael Fassbender’s android character David.
There’s no information on what exactly her part in the film entails, but with only a week's worth of shooting, I imagine it won’t be that big.
Elsewhere this morning, the Alien Anthology Twitter account released our first look at Danny McBride on set speaking with director Ridley Scott:
That account seems like a good thing to follow if you're into Alien news.
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, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.
The movie also stars Demián Bichir (The Hateful Eight), Jussie Smolett (Empire), Amy Seimetz (Upstream Color), Carmen Ejogo (Selma), Callie Hernandez (Machete Kills), Billy Crudup (Watchmen), and Katherine Waterston as Daniels. There’s a big rumor about who Waterston's character is that you can read about here if you want.
Alien: Covenant is set to be released on August 4, 2017. To catch up on all of our news about this movie, click here.