Peter Dinklage Joins ‘Alien: Earth’ Season 2

Peter Dinklage Will Join the Cast of FX’s ‘Alien: Earth’ for Season 2

His character is being kept quiet as he signs a deal to appear in the second batch of episodes from creator Noah Hawley based on the venerable franchise.

(Left) Peter Dinklage stars in 'Roofman'. Photo: Paramount Pictures. (Right) FX's 'Alien: Earth'. Photo: FX and Hulu.

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Peter Dinklage will be part of the cast for ‘Alien: Earth’s second season.
Noah Hawley created the show.
The new season will start shooting next month in London.

With ‘Alien: Earth’, the TV spin-off of the xenomorph-heavy sci-fi movie franchise, Noah Hawley proved he has a knack for creating shows based on movies, following his work on ‘Fargo’.

The series was a success last year for FX and now, with its second season due to kick off shooting, Deadline reports that ‘Game of Thrones’ veteran Peter Dinklage is joining the cast.

We don’t yet know what role Dinklage will be playing, but he joins a cast that already includes Sydney Chandler and Babou Ceesay.

What’s the story of ‘Alien: Earth’?

FX's ‘Alien: Earth’. Pictured: Sydney Chandler as Wendy. Photo: Patrick Brown/FX.

The first season kicked off with the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-landing on Earth, and introduced us to Wendy (Chandler), among the first group of a new breed of synthetic humans who make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.

As the finale dawned, Wendy was more in control of her abilities, but the wider story included the various powerful corporations battling it out for control of the new species that the ship brought to our world.

Hawley and co. will kick off filming the new season next month at London’s Pinewood Studios (where the 1979 original ‘Alien’ was shot), a switch from the first run of episodes’ Thailand locations.