Benjamin Rigby Joins Ensemble Cast For Alien: Covenant

Benjamin Rigby has joined the cast for 20th Century Fox’s sci-fi sequel.Alien: Covenant. Rigby will rubbing shoulders with Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterson, Danny McBride, Jussie Smolett, Amy Seimetz, Carmen Ejogo and Callie Hernandez. As expected, there’s no word on who Rigby will be playing.

Alien: Covenant is set to introduce a brand new cast to Fox’s prized universe. Should this marked change of pace prove successful, Ridley Scott himself has laid out tentative plans for a brand new trilogy one which will eventually dovetail with his 1979 horror masterpiece.

Helping to bridge that gap between past and presents will be composer Harry Gregson-Williams, with the early synopsis for Covenant describing Scott’s prequel-cum-sequel as so: “bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world — whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition”.

Production will set up shop Down Under next month, ahead of Alien: Covenant launching into theaters on August 4, 2017.