{"id":10866,"date":"2025-11-12T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=10866"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:24:33","slug":"fxs-alien-earth-renewed-for-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=10866","title":{"rendered":"FX&#8217;s Alien: Earth Renewed for Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">FX announced today that the FX, Hulu and Disney+ series <u>Alien: Earth<\/u> has been renewed for a second season as part of an overall new deal that FX and Disney Entertainment Television have sealed with showrunner Noah Hawley.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Alien: Earth, Season 2 begins filming in London in 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cIt has been our great privilege to work with Noah for more than a decade on some of FX\u2019s best and biggest shows, and we are thrilled to extend our partnership well into the future,\u201d said FX Chairman John Landgraf in a statement.  <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cNoah never stops surprising us with truly original stories\u2014 and his unique ability to bring them to vibrant life as a director and producer as well as writer makes him extraordinary. We can\u2019t wait to get to work on the next season of Alien: Earth, as well as some equally exciting future projects in advanced development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-slideshow\"><button type=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"jsx-2228525885\"\/><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\">\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">The Alien Movies&#8217; Long History of Recycling Rejected Ideas<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img alt=\"The Alien franchise has had a round robin of amazing creatives over its storied 45-year history, so there should be little surprise that a few brilliant ideas fell through the cracks, such as Vincent Ward's sadly aborted version of Alien 3 which took place in a floating wooden gothic monastery in space, or Neill Blomkamp's abandoned Alien 5, which would have brought back Ripley, Hicks, and Newt in a fan-service smorgasbord.\u00a0&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#10;&#10;Even on the films that were made, there was often a surplus of ideas discarded for creative or budgetary reasons. Some of these cool concepts were eventually carried over into later films. Whether the filmmakers were intentionally cannibalizing the surplus imagination of previous IP caretakers or just happened to come up with similar notions is up for debate, but what's not are the many deleted concepts and scenes which were utilized in subsequent Alien entries.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#10;&#10;Here is a (likely incomplete) list of some of those ideas. And remember\u2026 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2021719738 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"\/><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/RightChevron.272be43c.svg) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"\/><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/output><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cI\u2019m thrilled that this expanded deal opens the door to new opportunities across all of Disney Entertainment Television,\u201d said Hawley. \u201cFX has always supported bold, character-driven storytelling. From the very beginning with Fargo, they\u2019ve encouraged me to take creative risks and follow the story wherever it leads. I\u2019m grateful to continue exploring the world of Alien: Earth alongside our partners, cast, and crew as we begin the next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Back in September, <u>Hawley said<\/u>, \u201cObviously, none of us \u2014 Disney or myself \u2014 want a single day longer than necessary to get a second season on the air, in success. Everyone wants to get this decision right. But we also want to be ready to go. I certainly know where I\u2019m going. The moment they fire the starting gun, I\u2019m out of the block.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">IGN\u2019s Clint Gage was a big fan of Alien: Earth, Season 1; be sure to <u>read all of his Alien: Earth reviews here<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">For more coverage of Alien: Earth Season 1, find out what actress Sydney Chandler had to say about <u>creating the Xenomorph language<\/u> and be sure to check out <u>Alien: Earth Season 1 Ending Explained \u2013 How It Can All Fit Into the Bigger Alien Movie Universe<\/u> feature.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-video\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">FX\u2019s Alien: Earth is created for television and executive produced by Noah Hawley. Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Clayton Krueger, Emilia Serrano, Bob DeLaurentis, Peter Calloway, Monica Macer, John Campisi and Simon Emanuel also serve as executive producers. Alien: Earth is produced by FX Productions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/fxs-alien-earth-renewed-for-season-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FX announced today that the FX, Hulu and Disney+ series Alien: Earth has been renewed for a second season as part of an overall new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2077,2403,9139,9140,668],"class_list":["post-10866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-alien","tag-earth","tag-fxs","tag-renewed","tag-season","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}