Noomi Rapace confirmed for Alien: Covenant

Noomi Rapace was not expected to reprise her role in Alien: Covenant, after Ridley Scott announced that she wouldn’t be involved. However, it seems now that Rapace will in fact return.

Deadline reports that she is currently on set in Australia to shoot “weeks worth of scenes”. She’ll make her return to the franchise after starring as Elizabeth Shaw in 2012’s Prometheus.

She joins the likes of Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride and Demian Bichir. And recently we got a first look at Fassbender on set:

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Alien: Covenant hits theaters on August 4, 2017.