The lead role for the upcoming Alien prequel and Prometheus sequel apparently has it’s lead in Katherine waterson who was in inherent vice and this year’s Steve Jobs. She will be playing “Daniels” 

  
Rumor is it that Alien :covenant will follow the crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet, who discover what they believe is an uncharted paradise but is, in fact, a dark, dangerous world, the only inhabitant of which is David (Michael Fassbender), the ‘synthetic’ and survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.”

  
The movie opens up October 6th 2017