Tracey Ullman, Sam Spruell & Jerome Flynn Join ‘Alien: Earth’ Season 2 As Production Begins In London

Tracey Ullman (Tracey Ullman’s Show), Sam Spruell (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), and Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones) are the latest to join the cast of FX‘s Alien: Earth‘s second season, which just kicked off production in London.

Spruell’s casting reunites the British actor with Noah Hawley, who created the TV series based on the Alien franchise. Spruell previously starred in Hawley’s Fargo series for FX as part of the Season 5 cast.

Ullman, Spruell, and Flynn join the returning Season 1 cast that includes Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Babou Ceesay, Samuel Blenkin, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Adrian Edmondson, David Rysdahl, Moe Bar-El, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver. Peter Dinklage was previously announced as a Season 2 addition.

Details regarding who Ullman, Spruell, and Flynn will play are under wraps, as is the plot for Season 2.

In Season 1, the mysterious deep-space research vessel USCSS Maginot, which crash-lands on Earth. Wendy (Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.

In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans. But the game is changed when the wunderkind Founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a new technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with human consciousness). The first hybrid prototype, named Wendy, marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides with Prodigy City, Wendy and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.

Ullman is represented by CAA and Hamilton Hodell; Spruell is represented by Lou Coulson Associates and Luber Roklin Entertainment; Flynn is represented by Curtis Brown and Gersh.