Noomi Rapace will appear In Alien: Covenant! While her character made it off of LV-223 alive, Noomi Rapace’s involvement in the sequel has been unknown. That is no longer! According to this latest update from Deadline, Noomi is in Australia and about to film!
“Sources say Rapace is in Australia and on the set to shoot weeks worth of scenes in Scott’s film, which brings back Fassbender’s robot character and has a cast that includes Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride and Demian Bichir. Info is on lockdown, so we’ll have to wait for the film to be released August 4, 2017, by Fox to see how it all worked out.”
Noomi Rapace will appear In Alien: Covenant according to Deadline who are reporting that she is in Australia to shoot.
Despite previous comments from Ridley Scott that Noomi Rapace would appear in Alien: Covenant “briefly”, Elizabeth Shaw was absent from the synopsis that was released when the film was announced. The only news regarding from Shaw’s involvement came when Ridley Scott spoke to the Daily Mail and told them that Noomi Rapace would not be in the film.
Ever since that news, fans have been speculating as to what has happened to Shaw between the films that would lead to her not appearing in the film. While Deadline don’t go into the specifics of her involvement, it would appear the character has not been forgotten and Shaw and Noomi will be making an appearance. Thanks to Gazz, Foster and Andy Chan for the news.
Yeah, why type words or put thought into things when you just thumbs-up or thumbs-down? It's like everyone's turning into Caesar at the Colosseum.
Anyway, I'm just surprised. People are funny.
That's all the provisions we'll be taking though.
I confess I find that part a bit backward-thinking. The people who don't want to be spoiled are certainly not following this site on social media (at least I ain't). They are, however, more likely to drop in to the site to see what's new.
But I know the mods' minds are made up on that point; just wanted to say my bit.
The Corporal and Darkness have already made provision for hiding potentially spoilery news on AVPG's social media accounts as well as on the news feed on the top of this page. They are hardly "blatantly whipping it out there" anymore.
I'd ask for some consideration on your part, but I'm guessing an overwhelming amount of fans that come here probably want to know it all within seconds of entering a website, which is fun too because they can discuss it. But I don't think you need to blatantly whip it all out there. They've already come to the site.
You already have their attention.
That about sums it up for me. Reading this site now, one should consider as one big spoiler warning. But of course us hard core fans will keep reading, knowing full well that we will spoil our dinner. Can't blame the site for that.
I blame that on bad writing and Ridley Scott, not Rapace. One of the things that made Alien great was that its technology made sense to the audience. Nothing was really unbelievable in that film (from the Nostromo to the space suits to the weaponry). In Prometheus we were asked to suspend our disbelief for a lot things. That medical machine was a pretty significant plot point in the film so it should have been explained better.
I think Rapace did well given the limitations of the dialogue that was written for her character in Prometheus.
Oh yeah, totally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina
It is a bit of a stretch but i'm sure future medical technology can explain that away, like repairing muscle tissues and removing pain almost completely.
For me, Shaw's off-screen assumed pushiness/ambition to get to where she was - onboard the Prometheus - didn't seem to match with the often times wallflower persona. Even if she was playing the straight man cool/clinical scientist a la Dana Scully with a crisis of faith vs science twist, Gillian Anderson "gave" more presence on-screen in her debut scenes . And that was for a TV show, not the big screen.
Anyway, I wonder what her role will be. I really hope its written well this time.
Oh definitely. I know that several of the folk working on Prometheus used to frequent here when that was in production. It's why we got C&Ded so fast with the leaked pictures last time around. I can't attest to that now but I know some of the concept artists are very aware of us.
Are you high? What acting? She gets her stomach cut open by a robot, then minutes later is running around, jumping, bending, winching/carrying an android body around, etc. When I saw that, I was thinking, "Well that's bullshit."
Can't argue with that.
-Windebieste.
I'll bet money Damon Lindelof and Neil Blomkamp, and plenty of people on the sets of these films are plenty aware of websites devoted to fans like this one. Especially imdb. I'm on sets all the time. People are constantly talking about or looking at imdb for some shit.
I dunno how much they are taking into consideration and I doubt Ridley Scott gives a damn about something like this, but don't sell sites like this short.
Fans of films, make films.
I was having an in depth conversation with Douglas Smith a few months ago and he brought up imdb. This is a guy who has won Oscars for Visual Effects and has worked with everyone from Cameron to George Lucas. Its a small world. I know I'm a huge tool for name-dropping like that but for real... Fans matter.
Yeah, I put it down to speed reading.
Im only joking too!
Because when she jumped in the engineers ship and flew away, she made a big gap between the Prometheus incident rock (i forgot the LV number)
And to catch up with that, the Covenant ship must be years away imo.
But im very curious on what they are gonna portrait.
God what disappointing news. Some people are acting like it was as painful as losing Hicks from Alien 3. If we saw bloody savaged remnants of her weyland bodysuit that would have been sufficient.
I hope they limit her role, I don't want to see her go flying around in engineer ships or using their technology etc.
I know i'm only fooling around.
It doesn't read to me like it says she's already been down there, just that she does have some weeks of shooting to do. I'm curious as to how much work she'll be doing!
Not sure where you're getting that feeling from? Doesn't seem to be what it's saying.
Deadline are generally on point when it comes to this kind of news. I think they're where the majority of the casting news for Covenant came from.
Can't say I was a massive fan of the character but I think I would have been more annoyed if she was ignored wholesale and there was no closure to her. I'm really curious to see what they come up with!
Ehem!! I believe I speculated with an ENTIRE TOPIC titled some shit like 'NOOMI RAPACE UP TO NOTHING ELSE AT THE MOMENT BUT SHE ISN'T FILMING ANYTHING AND IS PROBABLY ON SET SHOOTING ALIEN:COVENANT AND THEY DON'T WANT US TO KNOW FOR REASONS' or whatever I may have titled it. I believe I suggested in there somewhere that she was MIA for a reason, perhaps.
In all seriousness though, they wanted this to be incognito, so maybe there IS something to her inclusion we dont yet understand... Some kinda character reveal we speculated about.
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Some verification, plz, Mr. Fox.
-Windebieste.
Why is it that I have a general idea of exactly how this movie is going to play out?
In an interview prior to 'Prometheus' release regarding the presence of any androids in the movie, Scott is on record stating "There may be two." Mind you, Scott has been known to say a lot of things that didn't exactly pan out.
Either way, Vickers may yet re-appear at some point in the upcoming trilogy. I don't know what Theron is working on at the moment. Maybe she's in Sydney right now... Even if she isn't, Android Vickers may yet make an appearance in one of the upcoming movies...
At this stage, anything can happen and even official word from Fox should be treated as open ended right now...
-Windebieste.