Peter Dinklage joins cast of Alien: Earth season 2
Deadline reports that Peter Dinklage is set to join Alien: Earth season 2 as a new series regular. Production on the new season is expected to kick off next month at London’s Pinewood Studios, a shift from the first season, which was filmed in Thailand.
Alien: Earth Season 2
As you might expect, there are no details on Dinklage’s character in the new season. The series stars Sydney Chandler as Wendy, a hybrid synthetic. The cast of the first season included 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.
Just after the first season concluded, series creator Noah Hawley spoke about where the story is going. “This whole thing is a proof-of-concept experiment to see if enough people on the planet want to watch an Alien TV show to justify the expense of a second and third season of an Alien TV show,” he said. “So for me, I never hedged my bets. This is not a closed-ended season. This chapter is closed, but Yutani troops are landing. The balance of power has shifted. These children have no idea what’s coming. The last line of, ‘Now we rule’ is triumphant and uplifting. But cut to 10 minutes later … what is going to be happening? So I like that it has that real-time urgency to it.“
What We Thought
In his review of the pilot episode, our own Chris Bumbray said Alien: Earth could be “the most ambitious TV series of the year. Featuring top-notch production values and a budget that would likely put most other shows to shame, FX is clearly trying to turn the Alien franchise into a high-end, tentpole series—something that can do for them what Game of Thrones and The Last of Us did for HBO.” You can check out the rest of his review right here.
Peter Dinklage
Dinklage was last seen playing billionaire baddie Leon Prater in Dexter: Resurrection and starring alongside Channing Tatum in Roofman. Next up is Idiots (formerly titled The Shitheads), which stars Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr. as two guys who have hit rock bottom and are forced to work together to transport a rich, troubled teen (Mason Thames) to rehab. The film is set to hit theaters on August 28. Our own Chris Bumbray caught the film at Sundance earlier this year, and you can check out his review right here.
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