Ridley Scott’s latest entry in the Alien series has found its lead: Katherine Waterston, who was in Inherent Vice and Steve Jobs, and will soon star in the J.K. Rowling adaptation Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
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As Deadline, which nabbed the casting scoop, reports, Waterston (fun fact: she’s the daughter of Law and Order fan fave Sam Waterston) will play the lead character, named Daniels. But not much else is yet known about Alien: Covenant:
Specific plot details for the new one 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.
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.
In recent interviews, Scott has also noted that the film will delve into the origins of the alien species
Top image: Katherine Waterston at a screening of Inherent Vice on Saturday, Nov 8, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)