Filming Is Underway In Thailand For Upcoming ALIEN Series From Disney
With so many new films coming out in the next year or so, one can get a bit lost in the shuffle. As far as ALIEN goes, there’s a whole lot going on for the franchise as of late. You have Fede Alvarez’s ALIEN: ROMULUS that is in production right now and also a brand new comic series from Marvel, ALIENS VS AVENGERS as well being released this Summer and the original ALIEN film from 1979 is heading back to theaters too.
That’s a whole lot of ALIEN for ya but some may have forgotten that there is a TV series in the works from Disney for FX from creator Noah Hawley (“Legion”) and we have the latest on that for ya.
The Alien franchise’s first ever television series is likely to arrive sometime in 2025, set to be the first story in the franchise that takes place on Earth, roughly 70 years in the future.
FX teases, “Expect a scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth.”
Deadline reports today that filming is underway in Thailand, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Foundation”) is the latest actor to sign on.
According to Deadline’s report this morning, the series is set 30 years before the events of the original Alien – Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, meanwhile, takes place 20 years *after* the events of Ridley Scott’s – dealing with “the emergence of the story’s infamous Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the race between corporations to create new android life.”
Deadline adds in today’s casting report, “We understand that Sencindiver appears in multiple eps and will play a senior member of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.”
Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling), Babou Ceesay (“Guerrilla”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Wonder Woman 1984”), Erana James (“Uproar”), Lily Newmark (“Sex Education”), Diêm Camille (“Washington Black”), Adrian Edmondson (“War & Peace”), Timothy Olyphant (“Fargo”), David Rysdahl (“Fargo”), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World), Samuel Blenkin (“Black Mirror”), Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger), and Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral) star in the upcoming sci-fi/horror series.
Sydney Chandler is playing a character named Wendy in the series, said to be “a hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult.”
We’re sure to hear and see more from the ALIEN series soon.
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