Alien Earth season 2 is filming in London — and Weyland Yutani might be on the Jubilee Line
Classic props seen in the vicinity of filming near Canary Wharf
Alien: Earth, the Disney Plus streaming hit set in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror universe, has a simple premise: What if the chest-bursting xenomorph crash landed on Earth? A great scary concept — but I’m not sure how I feel about one of the all-time great horror creations stalking around the corner from Shortlist towers in London.
That’s a fear I’m going to have to get over, as it seems that season 2 of Alien: Earth has kicked off filming in London’s East End — in the financial heart of Canary Wharf, to be precise.
Eagle-eyed fans on Reddit spotted vehicles bearing the ‘Weyland Yutani’ name — the show’s shady mega-corporation — near the glossy Docklands district over the weekend. It suggests the site might double as Weyland Yutani’s HQ — fitting, seeing as Canary Wharf regularly doubles onscreen as New York’s mega-bucks Wall Street area.
The truck bearing the logo is particularly exciting for fans of the series: it looks very much like the Colonial Marines Armored Personnel Carrier (APC), first seen in James Cameron’s 1986 ‘Aliens’ sequel. Could the most badass bug-squashing soldiers in the galaxy be about to make their Alien: Earth debut?
A cast of new face-huggable stars
Those details remain underwraps, but what we do know is that there’s a whole host of new faces set to be on the run from the formidable alien foes.
Tracey Ullman and Sam Spruell will be joining the cast, while there will be something of a Game of Thrones reunion next season too, with Peter Dinklage and Jerome Flynn also joining the show.
Returning cast members include Sydney Changler, Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Samuel Blenkin, Adarsh Gourav and Essie Davis. Noah Hawley remains show runner, with further filming taking place at Pinewood Studios.
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