Prometheus Star Noomi Rapace Not in Alien: Covenant
"We're still casting the main roles."
Noomi Rapace won't be reprising her role as Elizabeth Shaw in Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott has confirmed.
Despite the fact that Shaw was the only human to survive the events of Prometheus, the director said she won't be back. When asked by the Daily Mail newspaper (via Yahoo! Movies) whether or not Rapace would be involved, Scott replied with a definitive "no," noting they're "still casting the main roles."
In a separate interview with The Guardian newspaper, Scott spoke to the challenge and pressure of continually raising the bar and proving his reliability as a director, likening it to brain surgery.
"It is bloody brain surgery!" he said. "You're putting together a whole group of people, you're trying to budget as accurately as you can and, at the end of it, you've got to sell a lot of tickets. That's more complex than banking - but a few of us manage to pull it off."
Alien: Covenant opens on October 6, 2017 and is set ten years after Prometheus. Scott is striving to up the horror ante this time around, saying he's targeting a "pretty hard R" rating.
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