{"id":281770,"date":"2026-02-05T08:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/281770\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:23:13","slug":"alfie-allen-joins-the-institute-season-2-at-mgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/281770\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfie Allen Joins &#8216;The Institute&#8217; Season 2 At MGM+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Tony and Emmy-nominated <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/alfie-allen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alfie-allen\" data-tag=\"alfie-allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alfie Allen<\/a> (Game of Thrones) has joined the Season 2 cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-institute\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-institute\" data-tag=\"the-institute\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Institute<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mgm-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mgm-2\" data-tag=\"mgm-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MGM+<\/a>\u2018s thriller horror series based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/stephen-king\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stephen-king\" data-tag=\"stephen-king\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen King<\/a> novel.  Production is underway on the forthcoming season in Halifax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAllen will play Nolan Reeves, an eccentric European tech billionaire and one of the Institute\u2019s financial backers with an ambitious agenda all his own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason 2 picks up following the Season 1 finale, following Luke Ellis (Joe Freeman), Tim Jamieson (Ben Barnes), and their fellow survivors as they work to expose the Institute\u2019s crimes while staying one step ahead of the army of killers on their tail. Meanwhile, the ruthless and calculating Ms. Sigsby (Mary-Louise Parker) pursues her quest for vengeance and a return to power, in the process discovering more about the deep inner workings of the Institute than she ever could have imagined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to Freeman, Barnes and Parker, Allen joins returning cast members Simone Miller, Fionn Laird, Robert Joy, Arlen So, Jeff Fahey and Hannah Galway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Institute hails from executive producer King with director and executive producer Jack Bender (Lost, Game of Thrones) and executive producer and writer Benjamin Cavell (Justified, The Stand). MGM+ Studios is the studio. The series will premiere exclusively on MGM+ in the U.S., UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia.\u00a0Amazon MGM Studios Distribution will distribute in all other international territories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBest known for playing Theon Greyjoy in HBO\u2019s Game of Thrones, Allen most recently\u00a0wrapped production on the second season of Netflix\u2019s sci-fi show 3 Body Problem. Recent television credits include\u00a0the Paramount+ limited series, Girl Taken, the Sky series Atomic, Mark Williams\u2019 thriller series Safe Harbour, and Steven Knight\u2019s BBC Series Rogue Heroes. Film credits include Taika Waititi\u2019s Jojo Rabbit, John Wick and The Predator reboot, among others. He\u2019s repped by CAA, The Artists Partnership and Untitled Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Tony and Emmy-nominated Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones) has joined the Season 2 cast of The Institute,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[136140,93,61,60,53666,21637,136141,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-281770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-alfie-allen","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mgm","13":"tag-stephen-king","14":"tag-the-institute","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}