Katherine Waterston’s Role In ‘Alien: Covenant’ Revealed?

[Stolen]

Please be wrong. Stop with Ripley.

Ripley fights them multiple times.
Ripley's mother fights them.
Ripley's daughter fights them.
Ripley's Synthetic fights them.
Ripley's clone fights them.
Ripley's bloody descendant fights them.

And she wants to come back in a new Alien. STOP with Ripley.

I hope Fox will contradict in the day.

[Scorpio]

Except the last movie with Ripley was almost 20 years ago.  A whole generation of movie goers probably don't even know who Ripley is. 

[Kronnang_Dunn]

Correct me if I wrong, but... as far as I know... wasn't "Daniels" actually a surname?  Are people really this silly? 

[PsyKore]

Correct me if I wrong, but... as far as I know... wasn't "Daniels" actually a surname?  Are people really this silly? 

She may be using her maiden name or not married.

[CainsSon]

I really hope there is some kind of long term plan to this. If they throw her in there like "Hey...small world!" I just have no words for how stupid that is.

And if they do have a long term plan for how this affects the series, I hope it isn't some revision of the way we will watch Alien.

[SiL]

Christ, people, we had a Ripley origin story. It's called ALIEN.

[Corporal Hicks]

I see Ridley Scott still hasn't re-learned how to make good movies, huh?  Alien: Isolation was a fluke, using Amanda Ripley as the protagonist worked because people could believe that she would introduce herself to the Alien in order to find out what happened to her mother.

Exactly why I thought Amanda in Isolation ended up working as well as she did. There's a reason she might find herself facing an Alien and that is simply because she's ending up in the same kind of locale as her mother. It worked.

Why all the hate?  The Alien films have always been about Ripley's story.

That's the problem. Her story ended in Alien 3 but it can't be let go or moved on from.

Really, really getting bored with every sci fi story turning galaxy-spanning events into a series of unfortunate events for one special family.

Everyone says Fox is looking for their new Star Wars... 

Ripley is 30 years old in Alien, so there's plenty of room for backstory.  And you can always use amnesia to explain why Ripley doesn't remember. 

That would be just as bad as if Alien 3 and Resurrection end up being dreams. It just doesn't need to happen. There's a whole galaxy out there. There's more potential. They are creatively hamstringing themselves with this belief that Alien has to equal Ripley. Other things without Ripley aren't bad because there's no Ripley. They're just bad. Having a Ripley name isn't going to magically solve all their problems. Alien 3 and Resurrection, for example.

Yes, in times like these I really wish they'd have kept Shaw. Noomi was awesome.

I was never really fond of her. I found her character to be very irritating. I'm still waiting on that new character that really grips me.

Except the last movie with Ripley was almost 20 years ago.  A whole generation of movie goers probably don't even know who Ripley is.

Ripley and Weaver are iconic.

[Scorpio]

Christ, people, we had a Ripley origin story. It's called ALIEN.

Alien is a great Ripley origin story (even if wasn't intended as one). 

Except the last movie with Ripley was almost 20 years ago.  A whole generation of movie goers probably don't even know who Ripley is.

Ripley and Weaver are iconic.

Yes, true, but in the same way Bela Lugosi's Dracula or Karloff's Monster are iconic.  Doesn't mean that people have seen those movies that made them iconic.

[SiL]

Most sci fi fans will have seen them. Particularly Aliens.

[Xenomrph]

Christ, people, we had a Ripley origin story. It's called ALIEN.

Seconding this.

I hope this rumor is wrong, because it's just a little too goofy for me.

[Corporal Hicks]

Spoiler removed at the request of the studio.

So either it's legit or The Playlist is playing a game here.

[Xenoscream]

Really, really stupid idea.

It worked with Isolation as there was a clear character motive which could draw Amanda towards LV426 / the Alien.

With this it would be like the mother and daughter both winning the lottery.

I can't see them making this work in a logical way.

[szkoki]

[Johnny Handsome]

The connection is pointless, what does that add to Alien or it's plot? Ripley never found out anyway, it never had any impact of her story, so why make a connection here? This is getting f**king silly, if true, which i dearly hope is not the case.

I don't want them to turn Alien into Jaws the revenge with the whole family feud.

[Whiskeybrewer]

Hmm, this doesnt sit well with me. Its a pointless link/exercise. Now it'll be a case of why didnt her mum tell Ripley about everything (If she survives of course). Try something different Ridley.

How many years before Alien is Covenant meant to be set?