Danny McBride in talks to join ‘Alien: Covenant’
The truth is that I’m going to see Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant regardless of what is said about it prior to (or at its) release. It’s Ridley Scott, its an Alien movie. But if I was straight-up *pretending* that I wasn’t interested initially because Prometheus was raw-ass served up with a side order of marbled diarrhea chunks, I would say the addition of Kenny fucking Powers intrigues me enough to consider it.
Comedic actor Danny McBride, Kenny Powers from HBO’s “East Bound and Down,” has potentially landed a spot in the next installment of Ridley Scott’s “Alien” franchise. If cast, McBride would join previously announced actors Michael Fassbender and Katherine Waterston in the sci-fi drama, “Alien: Covenant.”
The news came via The Wrap, who reported that McBride was in talks to co-star in the film,
which is both a sequel to Scott’s 2012 “Prometheus” and also a prequel to Scott’s “Alien” franchise. According to Scott, “Alien: Covenant” will begin to bridge the gap between “Prometheus” and “Alien.” “Alien: Covenant” will pick up where “Prometheus” left off: “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 (Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.”