Production is now underway in London on Season 2 of ‘Alien: Earth’, and the xenomorph-adjacent drama has added three more very interesting names to its already packed cast list.
Tracey Ullman (The Tracey Ullman Show), Sam Spruell (Fargo) and Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones) have joined the highly anticipated second season, alongside the previously announced Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones). The series comes from Noah Hawley, the man behind Fargo and Legion, which means corporate horror, strange tech, and existential dread are probably very much still on the menu.
Spruell’s casting also marks a reunion with Hawley, having previously appeared in Fargo. Ullman, meanwhile, brings a frankly ridiculous CV to the series, with credits ranging from The Tracey Ullman Show, the programme which famously launched The Simpsons, through to Mrs. America, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Netflix film Steve. Flynn will be familiar to many as Bronn in Game of Thrones, and more recently appeared opposite Harrison Ford (Shrinking) in the Yellowstone prequel 1923.
They join returning lead Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling) as Wendy, alongside Alex Lawther (The End of the F**ing World*), Timothy Olyphant (Justified), Essie Davis (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries), Babou Ceesay (Wolfe), Samuel Blenkin (Black Mirror), Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger), Jonathan Ajayi (Wonder Woman 1984), Erana James (The Wilds), Lily Newmark (Cursed), Adrian Edmondson (The Young Ones), David Rysdahl (Fargo), Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral) and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (Foundation).
Set in the year 2120, ‘Alien: Earth’ takes place in a world governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, cyborgs and synthetics exist alongside humans, but things take a deeply worrying turn when Prodigy Corporation’s founder unlocks a new advancement: hybrids, humanoid robots infused with human consciousness.
Season 1 begins when the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, leading Wendy and a group of tactical soldiers to discover something that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat. Given this is the Alien universe, I think we can safely assume that threat is not going to be a slightly awkward quarterly performance review.
The series is created for television by Noah Hawley and produced by FX Productions, with Hawley’s 26 Keys Productions also involved. Season 2 will air on FX and Hulu in the US, and will be available on Disney+ internationally, which should include the UK.
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