Alien: Earth Season 2 is moving along. In the first piece of news about the upcoming cast, the show is welcoming a Game of Thrones star.
Per Deadline, Peter Dinklage has just joined Alien: Earth Season 1 as a series regular. There aren’t any details about his exact character, but the actor will play a major role in what’s to come. The announcement comes just a few weeks before Alien: Earth is supposed to start filming Season 2 in May.
Peter Dinklage Joins FX’s Hit Sci-Fi Series
Peter Dinklage has a history with FX, which is the home of Alien: Earth. The actor had a recurring role on Ryan Murphy’s Nip/ Tuck, and recently reunited with the network for The Lowdown Season 1.
Dinklage is also the first major casting for the upcoming season of the critically acclaimed sci-fi series, which hails from Fargo creator Noah Hawley.
Based on Ridley Scott’s 47-year-old sci-fi franchise Alien, the series is set two years before the events of the iconic 1979 film. It stars Sydney Chandler as the humanoid robot Wendy. Alien: Earth follows Wendy and a group of soldiers, who make a discovery that makes them face an unexpected threat when they crash-land on Earth in 2120. The sci-fi show also featured Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, David Rysdahl, Adrian Edmondson, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Diem Camille, and Moe Bar-El.
Production on Season 2 will take place at a studio that has a long history with the franchise: London’s Pinewood Studios, home to the original 1979 movie, Alien 3, and the divisive prequel Prometheus.
Alien: Earth was a major hit with critics, after it debuted with a perfect score. It has since settled on a 94% approval from critics and a Certified Fresh score, and the overall consensus notes the series is “stylistically bold and scary as hell,” and that it managed to keep its “cinematic grandeur intact” as a television series, “while staking out a unique identity of its own.”
Audiences weren’t immediately convinced, and Season 1 features a 65% approval score. The reviews praised the visual effects and how it keeps the general aesthetics of the franchise, but called out the plot holes and unlikable characters.
Alien: Earth Will Have a ‘Family’ Element in Season 2
Timothy Olyphant as Prodigy’s chief scientist, Kirsh, in FX’s Alien: EarthImage via FX
Even with the mixed response from audiences, Alien: Earth became a major success on streaming, and dominated the charts long after Season 1 ended. FX renewed Alien: Earth for Season 2 almost two months after its finale, and star Babou Ceesay told CBR the new season is “gonna go big.”
He teased, “And I think there’s going to be more of a family element to it. Now, whenever people hear the word family, maybe they’ll interpret it as something benign and peaceful.”
The actor explained, “But it’s not in that sense. It’s, we know what family can be like, right? Yes. So it’s, it’s about relationships with the backdrop of this huge sci-fi alien world. And, you know, we’re embedded now, it’s in we started. So we’ve got eight hours in. Let’s see what, what happens.”
Alien: Earth Season 1 is streaming on Hulu. Season 2 doesn’t have a release date yet.
Release Date
August 12, 2025
Network
FX, Hulu
Directors
Dana Gonzales, Ugla Hauksdóttir, Noah Hawley
