Katherine Waterston Lands Lead Role in Next 'Alien: Covenant' Film

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Meet the new Ripley. THR is reporting that director Ridley Scott has cast actress Katherine Waterston in the lead role opposite Michael Fassbender in the upcoming Alien: Covenant film. Throughout this past year we’ve been reporting on Ridley kicking this new Alien film into production after catching the sci-fi bug working on The Martian again. He’s so invested in this one, that Neill Blomkamp’s Alien movie has been postponed. Waterston will star along with Fassbender, with filming starting in Australia in early 2016. The story will follow a colony ship that lands on a planet where they find the android David from Prometheus. ›››