In a new interview with Collider, Waterston talked a bit about Alien: Covenant and the future of the Fantastic Beasts universe.
her character is a science officer aboard the ship Covenant, and Waterston describes her journey as a venture “into the unknown.”
The new Alien movies certainly seem a lot more philosophical than the first, which was essentially a straight-up monster-in-the-house horror narrative.
Prometheus dealt with Big Ideas like the conception and nature of humanity and creation itself, and it sounds like Alien: Covenant may be doing more of the same.