FX’s Alien: Earth is adding a multiple Emmy winner to its cast for season two.
Peter Dinklage has joined the series from creator and showrunner Noah Hawley. Details on Dinklage’s role are locked in a secure Weyland-Yutani facility for the time being.
The show’s first season ended on a cliffhanger of sorts, with the show’s surviving characters (and a xenomorph) all in one room and hybrid Wendy (Sydney Chandler) saying “Now we rule.”
“This chapter is closed, but Yutani troops are landing. The balance of power has shifted. These children have no idea what’s coming,” Hawley told The Hollywood Reporter about the season one finale. “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.”
Production on season two is scheduled to begin in May in London. Along with Chandler, the season one cast of Alien: Earth featured 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.
Dinklage had a memorable guest role in another FX series, The Lowdown, last season. The Game of Thrones alum’s recent credits also include Dexter: Resurrection and the features Wicker and Roofman. He’s also slated to pick up the lead role in Poker Face, should the series find a new home after ending at Peacock. He is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen.
Hawley executive produces Alien: Earth with Ridley Scott (director of the first Alien film), David W. Zucker, Clayton Krueger, Emilia Serrano, Bob DeLaurentis, Peter Calloway, Monica Macer, John Campisi and Simon Emanuel.
Deadline first reported the news.
