Demian Bichir Joins Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien: Covenant’

[Gazz]

EXCLUSIVE: Demián Bichir has been set by Ridley Scott to join the cast of Fox's Alien: Covenant, the sequel to the Scott-directed Prometheus. Bichir will join Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston and Danny McBride. Bichir, Oscar nominated for A Better Life, was most recently part of the ensemble cast of the Quentin Tarantino-directed The Hateful Eight. He's repped by CAA.

http://deadline.com/2016/02/demian-bichir-ridley-scott-alien-covenant-prometheus-the-hateful-eight-1201707299/

[Enoch]

Great news...!!! I feel that more is coming.

Now the speculations about his character begin...

https://youtu.be/x2wH5RS58lo
He is very good...

[426Buddy]

I like him as an actor, seen him in a few things, very good choice.

[Wobblyboddle77]

Well this is interesting casting, a potential antagonist, maybe a Weyland employee or a colonist on the covenant ship with his own agenda? Deadline are also stating Noomi Rapace is in the film casting. I don't know how accurate deadline are, but i'm liking all the casting for Alien Covenant.

[Astronoë]

Never heard of him, don't really care..but the news that Noomi is on cast list..that is good news

[draken161]

Noomi? Going to have to take that with a lil bit of salt. Otherwise great news.

[Stolen]

Bob the mexican 
Great actor.

Hope for Noomi !!

[Corporal Hicks]

Thanks for the news, Gazz. This has been frontpaged.

I can't say I'm familiar with Bichir - I didn't catch Hateful 8 in the cinemas over here because of that whole debacle with Cineworld.

[XENOMORPHOSIS]

Curious to see how he fairs in the film, perhaps in a role like Ash, Burke, Vickers or Peter Weyland, a face of the company with their own ulterior motive like Wobblyboddle77 had suggested. Too early to tell though.

[HuDaFuK]

He was great in The Hateful Eight, even with very little to actually do.

I've seen him in other bits and pieces, but nothing I could put my finger on.

[Whiskeybrewer]

That annoyed me with the whole Cineworld thing? what actually happened?

Its nice to see the cast growing and it being pretty diverse

[Corporal Hicks]

That annoyed me with the whole Cineworld thing? what actually happened?

It was apparently do with the premiere being shown at an Odeon cinema: http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-hateful-eight/38405/the-hateful-eight-cineworld-not-showing-tarantinos-new-film

[Whiskeybrewer]

So Cineworld got into a pissy, which meant a lot of people couldnt see it? Christs sake. The two cinemas local to me are both Cineworlds. I couldnt travel to see it. Typical

[Mr. Clemens]

Nice to see some more casting happening. This might indicate that they have a script now.   

[Infected]

All these actors have the normal look of a normal worker kinda guy,
so Ridley is going for the hard working look guys like in Alien.
Se we can expect a kind of reboot of Alien but with more gore and more mystery.
Cos i dont see those guys as Rambo's or Hicks and Hudson's so i can fairly say these are simple people,
getting prept for an ass whooping of bibicle proportions.