While Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation‘s Rebecca Ferguson was rumored to be in talks, Katherine Waterston, pictured below in Inherent Vice, has landed the lead role in Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant.

She will reunite with her Jobs co-star Michael Fassbender, while Scott has previously confirmed that Noomi Rapace will also return.

Alien: Covenant is the sequel to Prometheus, but also the beginning of a new trilogy that will act as a prequel to Scott’s 1979 Alien.

Scott revealed that the new film will have all the Alien goodies, from the egg to the face-hugger, chest-burster, and even “the big boy.”

There’s been so much news behind this that I suggest browsing through out Alien hub to catch up.

Shooting begins early next year in Australia on Alien: Covenant for release by Fox on October 6th, 2017.