Katherine Waterston to Beat Off an Alien: Covenant
Steve Barton
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Some quick possible casting news has arrived for Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant. Deadline is reporting that Katherine Waterston, who co-starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, is set to star in the Scott-directed sequel to Prometheus. In what will be the biggest role of her career to date, Waterston has been cast as the lead, Daniels.
Specific plot details for the new film are being closely guarded, but it is believed to follow the crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet, who discover what they believe is an uncharted paradise but is, in fact, a dark, dangerous world, the only inhabitant of which is David (Michael Fassbender), the “synthetic” and survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.
Alien: Covenant is believed to be the first in a conceived trilogy of new films that will link the events of Prometheus with the original 1979 Ridley Scott-directed classic Alien.
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