Demián Bichir (The Heat, The Bridge) will follow up his bearded, swaddled turn in The Hateful Eight with a trip to outer space, as Deadline reports the actor has just boarded Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant (née Alien: Paradise Lost). Bichir joins fellow franchise newcomers Katherine Waterston and Danny McBride, as well as Michael Fassbender, who’s reprising his role as the android David. The details of Bichir’s role haven’t been released; we’d like to imagine that he’ll act as some kind of exo-suit that will allow David’s head to be the film’s Krang, but it’s more likely he’ll serve as the strict officer-type to whatever profanity-spewing hothead McBride will almost certainly play.