{"id":573692,"date":"2026-04-09T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573692\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:44:10","slug":"peter-dinklage-joins-alien-earth-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573692\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Dinklage Joins &#8216;Alien: Earth&#8217; Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/peter-dinklage\/\" id=\"auto-tag_peter-dinklage\" data-tag=\"peter-dinklage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Dinklage<\/a> has joined the cast of FX\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/alien-earth\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alien-earth\" data-tag=\"alien-earth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alien: Earth<\/a>\u201d Season 2, Variety has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhile his character details are still kept under wraps, the \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d Emmy winner will be a series regular on the sci-fi series from \u201cFargo\u201d creator Noah Hawley. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tInspired by Ridley Scott\u2019s 1979 blockbuster \u2014 and taking place two years before the events of the original film \u2014 \u201cAlien: Earth\u201d is the first TV installment in the \u201cAlien\u201d franchise. It stars Sydney Chandler as humanoid robot Wendy, and the cast also includes Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adarsh Gourav and Timothy Olyphant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tProduction on the second season will begin in May at London\u2019s Pinewood Studios, which is where the original film, \u201cAlien 3\u201d and \u201cPrometheus\u201d filmed. The first season of \u201cAlien: Earth\u201d was shot in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDinklage, who won four Emmys for his portrayal of Tyrion Lannister in the HBO fantasy hit \u201cGame of Thrones,\u201d recently appeared in the film \u201cRoofman\u201d opposite Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst, as well as \u201cWicked\u201d alongside Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. He also starred in \u201cDexter: Resurrection\u201d and will potentially lead a new iteration of \u201cPoker Face\u201d as detective Charlie Cale, taking over the role from Natasha Lyonne. Rian Johnson is currently shopping that version around Hollywood after the series was canceled at Peacock after two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAlien: Earth\u201d is created for television and executive produced by Hawley alongside EPs Scott, David W. Zucker, Clayton Krueger, Emilia Serrano, Bob DeLaurentis, Peter Calloway, Monica Macer, John Campisi and Simon Emanuel. The show is produced by FX Productions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDeadline broke the news of Dinklage\u2019s casting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Dinklage has joined the cast of FX\u2019s \u201cAlien: Earth\u201d Season 2, Variety has confirmed. While his character&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[23088,88,76137],"class_list":["post-573692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alien-earth","tag-entertainment","tag-peter-dinklage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}