Horror spin-off Alien: Earth season 2 will start filming this May at Pinewood, with Peter Dinklage now among the cast. Update: Game Of Thrones and The Toxic Avenger star Peter Dinklage has joined the already expansive cast of Alien: Earth season 2, Variety reports. Production is about to get underway next month (specifically, May), with ... Alien: Earth season 2 | Peter Dinklage joins the cast
Horror spin-off Alien: Earth season 2 will start filming this May at Pinewood, with Peter Dinklage now among the cast.
Update: Game Of Thrones and The Toxic Avenger star Peter Dinklage has joined the already expansive cast of Alien: Earth season 2, Variety reports.
Production is about to get underway next month (specifically, May), with its operations having moved from Thailand to the UK’s Pinewood studios. We’re likely to see a great deal more of Weyland-Yutani, the Alien universe’s dystopian mega-corporation, this time around. And while the identity of the character Dinklage is set to play hasn’t been revealed, it’s possible he’ll be playing someone connected to that company.
Dinklage will join the likes of Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Timothy Olyphant and Essie Davis in the new series, again headed up by showrunner Noah Hawley.
More as it comes in.
Previously…
6th March: Days after regular series director Dana Gonzales signalled that pre-production on Alien: Earth was under way at Pinewood Studios, Sydney Chandler has provided another update. The star, who plays Wendy in showrunner Noah Hawley’s TV spin-off, says that production will begin in May.
That’s according to Deadline, who in their brief chat with the actor also learned that she hasn’t seen any scripts for Alien: Earth’s second season yet. With the shoot potentially weeks away, we hope someone, somewhere is running those pages out of a Canon inkjet printer or similar piece of technology.
Whatever’s in those scripts, Alien: Earth's second season is likely to have a different feel from the first. Without spoiling things, Weyland-Yutani is likely to be the greater focus, and a shift from sunny Thailand to dreary Pinewood suggests that we won’t see much of the Prodigy corporation’s leafy island base.
The original Alien was shot at the same studio, so maybe we’re looking at a more interior, industrial-looking series this time around. There has been word going round of a budget cut for the series, so reducing the external location shots may be one way of saving money.
More on this as we get it.
Our earlier story follows…
2nd March: As confirmed last November, the horror spin-off show Alien: Earth is getting a second season. It was thought at the time that production was set to shift from Thailand to London – and that’s now also been confirmed, as news circulates that season 2 is set to begin filming at Pinewood Studios this year.
The word comes via AVP Galaxy, who’ve noted a post over at Filmbase which lists Alien: Earth among the productions due to begin in the UK.
AVP Galaxy has also spotted a post on Instagram by Dana Gonzales, a director on Alien: Earth season 1. She shared a photo of a sign on a door at Paramount, listing her as executive producer/producing director.
“Super exciting to start the journey of Alien: Earth season 2,” she wote. “World building in the Alien universe birthplace.”
Series composer Jeff Russ also confirmed his return in a reply: “Yes yes!!! I will see you soon!”
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It’s likely that Alien: Earth season 2 will look somewhat different from its predecessor. The shift in production means the series will inevitably leave the idyllic filming locations of the first season behind, while Filmbase’s listing adds, “We understand that crew budgets have been squeezed.”
There’s no word on who’s returning for the new season, which will again be overseen by showrunner Noah Hawley. It’s likely that the core cast of Sydney Chandler, Samuel Blenkin and Babou Ceesay, among others, will all come back in some capacity.
Keeping things spoiler-free, the end of Alien: Earth’s first run left things wide open for a continued story featuring all those characters. If there was one criticism to poke at an otherwise lavishly mounted series, it’s that it didn’t really go anywhere surprising after its opening episodes.
More on Alien: Earth season 2 as we get it.
