The famous Pinewood Studios of London, where "Aliens" and "Alien 3" were shot, will see the second season of creator Noah Hawley's "Alien: Earth" filmed at the same location. The cast has added Peter Dinklage as a series regular, reported Variety. The first season was shot in Thailand.
The show marked a significant shift in the franchise, depicting the dreadful xenomorphs and extraterrestrial horrors as they descend upon Earth. Deviating from the series’s conventional deep-space setup, "Alien: Earth" took the terror to planet Earth.
The series is set in the year 2120 on a research island ominously named Neverland. In this future, Earth is run by five mega-corporations—Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic, and Threshold—that shape all aspects of life. Within this "Corporate Era," humans coexist uneasily with the synthetic humanoid robots powered by artificial intelligence and cyborgs, the enhanced humans with artificial parts. But the plot takes a stark turn when Prodigy Corporation’s CEO, the young and enigmatic Boy Kavalier, played by Samuel Blenkin, unleashes a radical new advancement, introducing hybrids, robots implanted with actual human consciousness.
Pulled into the mishaps of this groundbreaking twist is Wendy, played by Sydney Chandler, the very first human to successfully upload her consciousness into a synthetic body, becoming the prototype hybrid. Years after her transformation, Wendy embarks on a critical mission with a unit of hybrid soldiers to investigate the crash of Weyland-Yutani's deep-space research vessel, the USCSS Maginot, in Prodigy City, where they make a truly chilling discovery.
Other lead cast members included Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Babou Ceesay, Adarsh Gourav and Timothy Olyphant.
Dinklage, who became a household name after his breakthrough role as Tyrion Lannister in "Game of Thrones", was last seen in filmmaker Derek Cianfrance's "Roofman" with Channing Tatum.