Demian Bichir, hot off the success of his appearance in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, has joined the cast of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel Alien: Covenant. He joins Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston and Danny McBride in the film, which kicks off shooting down in Australia this month.
Here’s the official synopsis, which was released back in November.
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.
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