After becoming a huge hit on Disney+ and Hulu last summer, the streamers are pushing ahead with a second season of Alien: Earth, the series prequel to Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic – and they have recruited a new cast member.
TVLine reports that Emmy Winner Peter Dinklage – star of Game of Thrones – has joined the cast for the sophomore season, but his character is being kept under wraps for now. The show comes from showrunner Noah Hawley (Fargo).
The second season is expected to begin almost immediately after, Hawley indicating that there are plans to essentially continue in the minutes afterwards as Yutani’s troops arrive and “these children have no idea what’s coming… The show’s first season ended on a cliffhanger with several surviving characters all in one room and hybrid Wendy (Sydney Chandler) saying ‘Now we rule.”
Chandler, Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Essie Davis, David Rysdahl, and Adrian Edmondson starred in the first season. Filming on the new season is set to begin next month in London, but no word outside of Chandler as to who from the original cast is returning.
In our review, we called the series “Dark, whimsical and genuinely frightening, Alien: Earth proves there’s still life — and terror — left in the Alien universe.”
Synopsis:
When the deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, a young hybrid woman named Wendy and a group of tactical soldiers make a discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s biggest threat.
Alien: Earth is now streaming on Disney+.
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