‘Alien: Covenant’ to Feature Katherine Waterston as Female Lead

Source:collider.com

It looks as if Alien:Covenant is finding more of it's cast. 

Joining Michael Fassbender who is returning as the David, is 

Katherine Waterson. 

The Wrap  reported that actress Katherine Waterson has 

been cast as the female lead in Alien:Covenant, does that 

mean that there will be no Noomi Rapace in the sequel?

This is what we know of the plot to Alien:Covenant as far

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.