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Cast Photo To Alien: Covenant<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

February 21, 2017<\/p>\n

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20th Century Fox\u00a0has released a cast photo\u00a0to\u00a0Ridley Scott\u2019s Alien: Covenant<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The film stars\u00a0Katherine Waterson, Danny McBride, Demi\u00e1n Bichir,\u00a0Jussie Smolett, Amy Seimetz, Carmen Ejogo, Benjamin Rigby, Callie Hernandez<\/strong>,\u00a0Billy Crudup, Guy Pearce, Uli Latukefu, James Franco\u00a0<\/strong>and Michael\u00a0Fassbender, <\/strong>who\u00a0is reprising his\u00a0role of David is role from Scott’s 2012 film Prometheus as well as a new android named Walter.<\/p>\n

Noomi Rapace is also expected to reprise her role as Dr. Elizabeth Shaw, and\u00a0James Franco is said to\u00a0play the Captain of the title ship.<\/p>\n

Covenant is supposed to be the first of a trilogy for 20th Century Fox and will serve as the prequel to the Alien film Scott did in the 80s.<\/p>\n

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Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in Alien<\/i> with Alien: Covenant<\/i>, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with Prometheus<\/i> \u2013 and connects directly to Scott\u2019s 1979 seminal work of science fiction.<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.\u00a0When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.<\/p>\n

Hitting theaters on August 4, 2017, Alien: Covenant<\/strong> was\u00a0written by Jack Paglen<\/strong>\u00a0(Transcendence<\/em>) and\u00a0Michael Green<\/strong>\u00a0(Green Lantern<\/em>).<\/p>\n

During Fox’s presentation of the film and other 2017 titles, Waterson talked about her role, where she plays Amy Daniels, the chief terraformist on the colonization mission.<\/p>\n

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Katherine Waterson:<\/strong> She\u2019s a pilot named Amy Daniels and the rest of the crew are scientists. They are not military or experts or anything like that. They are civilians with some military dudes around to protect us but most of the people on the ship are couples. There are also these colonists who are in a cryosleep. It\u2019s one of those things where you wonder, \u201cWhat kind of person will you be?\u201d \u201cWill you be courageous?\u201d<\/p>\n

From Inherent Vice to Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, did you know that you had this action hero inside of you? Did someone had to convince you to do a film like this?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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KW:<\/strong> I don\u2019t think anyone has to convince an actor to work with Ridley Scott and be a part of something like this. Actors say this all the time because it\u2019s true but we do find ourselves attracted to the things we don\u2019t think we can do. I always looking for new challenges and maybe even on some level, I’m addicted to that horrible dread that you feel at the beginning of a project where you are not sure if you will have what it takes to, you know, pull it off, yeah.<\/p>\n

The look and haircut is all really evocative to Sigourney Weaver\u2019s Ripley? Were there conversations between you and Ridley Scott? Is that something you wanted to bring out in this film?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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KW:<\/strong> We never really talked about it. I obviously love her and love what she did. There are parallels in the film and she also found her courage. We never talked about that. The haircut was my idea. I had this loopy bob from Fantastic Beasts and Ridley liked it. I hung out with Ezra Miller on that film and I loved his haircut. When I got this film, I was still shooting that. It was near the ending of Fantastic Beasts and I saw his wig at the corner in the trailer and was like, \u201cCan I get just try that on? I put that wig on and showed it to Ridley and beg him to let me use it and he did. So, I was really just working off Ezra.<\/p>\n

Katherine Waterson talks Alien: Covenant<\/p>\n