Shaw confirmed! Spoiler Alert.

Do you have a link to this confirmation? 

Yeah that sucks. Guess her story got scrapped when Fox wanted more Aliens.

Confirmation was made by a premier guest who is also a writer.

NOooooooo!

she may be heavily involved in prequel Alien :Awakening ?the most crucial film of the franchise?

This is what I read:
We can tell you one thing: her unforgettable delivery scene in Prometheus is nothing compared to her current state.

According to a Korean source(not necessarily credible) she was not killed by David.

I saw the movie last week. The shot of her body in David's house of horror is the only image you get of her. You also see the her tombstone that David built.

It's also a background shot.. Lope (Head of Security) is walking around and it's briefly there.

I can also address the prequel/sequel aspect of Alien: Awakening if anyone wants in regards to Shaw being in it.

Well you tempt, so consummate, what do you know?

I can't comment yet... Embargo lifts tomorrow night. But I will say I was kind of disappointed with how Shaw was handled. The Prologue footage with her and David should've been included. 

In regards to Chris comment .I knew this was going to happen. (Spoiler) probably a quick unexplained death for Dr. Shaw is what happened .

The juggernaut does crash on the forest, we do know she was asleep inside a powered capsule. Franco dies in such circumstances, asleep in a power or technical failure. We also know David likes to experiment on people dead or alive.

David sounds like an evil version of Pinocchio. Wants to be a real "man" and takes his anger out on the company that created him. Alien was never really about the alien. It was about the company doing everything it could to get a hold of the alien for weapons. 

And the ships AI is up to no good, ... again. So it seems...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgQzULILnwM

Speaking of twists... Maybe David knocks some sense into Muthur and "saves" the day. And maybe that's why he get's rid of Walter... Well, just rambling... :D

So the body on the slab with the open ribcage in davids honecomb hideout is Shaws?  Sucks Shaw had to go out like that. Guessing the crossing footage was cut from Covenant or intended for awakening. Was my hope to see shaw find out her answers.

Maybe it's Oram in the workshop. We know he get's facehugged. And in the trailer chest bursting scene it's also him, I think.

This is apparently her...

Yeah, that's the pic i had in mind, AronStar. The one with the "unguns". XD