Alien: Covenant has consigned four new souls to die screaming and alone in space, according to Deadline Hollywood. Ok, it's possible that the characters played by Carmen Ejogo (Selma, The Purge: Anarchy), Jussie Smollett (Empire), Amy Seimetz (Upstream Color), and Callie Hernandez (Machete Kills) will live to see the end of the Prometheus sequel, but given that Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice and Steve Jobs) has already been cast in the lead role of Daniels, it's not a safe bet.
The story begins as a colony ship reaches a distant planet, seemingly inhabited only by David (Michael Fassbender), the android who hesitantly took to the stars with Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) at the end of Prometheus. That means most or all of the new actors will likely be residents of the colony ship. Hopefully this new crew will know better than to play around with phallic snake aliens.
