In a bizarre and somewhat unexpected turn of events, it looks like Noomi Rapace will be starring in Alien: Covenant after all! According to an exclusive new report by Deadline, Rapace is currently in Sydney filming weeks worth of footage for Ridley Scott's Prometheus sequel!
Sources say Rapace is in Australia and on the set to shoot weeks worth of scenes in Scott’s film, which brings back Fassbender’s robot character and has a cast that includes Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride and Demian Bichir. Info is on lockdown, so we’ll have to wait for the film to be released August 4, 2017 by Fox to see how it all worked out.
Originally, it was insinuated that Noomi's character Shaw would not be returning for Covenant. Even the official plot synopsis avoid mention of her character and only reference the only survivor of the doomed Prometheus mission being Michael Fassbender's David. However, early plot leaks we were provided hinted that Shaw's journey was going to be its own parallel story line, running next to that of the new crew of the Covenant. When the re-writes began and the film's official synopsis landed, we began to worry that Shaw was written out or that her journey was being saved for a later sequel.
It would seem now, that our worries were misplaced and that we will in fact get to see what becomes of Elizabeth Shaw after all! As a fan of Prometheus who enjoyed Noomi's portrayal of the character, I couldn't be more thrilled!
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Source: Deadline
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