Sex Education’s Lily Newmark, Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s Adrian Edmondson, and more have been added to the cast of Noah Hawley’s Alien series for FX.
Per Variety, six new cast members — Babou Ceesay (Free Fire, Eye in the Sky), Jonathan Ajayi (Wonder Woman 1984, Noughts + Crosses), Erana James (The Wilds, Bad Behaviour), Lily Newmark (Solo: A Star Wars Story, Sex Education), Diêm Camille (Klassen, The Sommerdahl Murders), and Adrian Edmondson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, War & Peace) — have officially joined Hawley’s upcoming Alien series.
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The announcement comes just two days after it was revealed that The Mandalorian and Fargo’s Timothy Olyphant will star in Hawley’s Alien as a character named Kirsh. On November 28, 2023, Deadline broke the news that another Fargo star, David Rysdahl, is also playing a role in the series.
Joining the aforementioned cast are Sydney Chandler as Wendy, Alex Lawther as CJ, Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier, Essie Davis as Dame Silva, Adarsh Gourav as Slightly, and Kit Young as Tootles.
The upcoming Alien series — not to be confused with Alien: Romulus, a new movie directed by Fede Álvarez that is scheduled to release on August 16, 2024 — is set prior to the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien movie from 1979. Hawley is writing and directing the show, while Scott is serving as an executive producer.
Plot details are being kept under wraps at this time; however, the series will be set on Earth a few decades before the events of Alien.
Hawley’s Alien series was officially announced in December 2020 as a joint venture between 20th Television (which is owned by The Walt Disney Company) and Scott Free Productions. Production began this summer with the series’ British cast who aren’t a part of Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) but was ultimately halted in August because of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
While Alien does not yet have an official release date from FX, Hawley previously told TheWrap it will likely premiere in early-to-mid 2025.
