FX’s upcoming Alien series has resumed production in Thailand after halting last year during the Hollywood strikes. And now that the show is filming again, Deadline is reporting that Sandra Yi Sencindiver has joined the cast of Alien.
Outside of Danish cinema and television, Sencindiver is best known in America for her roles in Apple TV+’s Foundation and Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time. She has also lent her voice to Assassins Creeds: Valhalla.
Sencindiver is slated to appear in multiple episodes of Alien as a senior member of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, the corrupt company that was previously established in the films. Deadline also notes that “there’s scope for the character to grow in future series,” which suggests that Sencindiver’s character may return beyond the initial season.
Alien features a cast that includes Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Adarsh Gourav, Kit Young, Timothy Olyphant, David Rysdahl, Babou Cessay, Erana James, Lily Newmark, and Adrian Edmonson. Fargo and Legion’s Noah Hawley developed the series for television, which will be executive produced by Ridley Scott. The story is reportedly set on Earth a few years before the events of Prometheus, as the Weyland-Yutani Corporation and its rivals race to create “new android life.”
FX hasn’t set a premiere date for Alien, but a 2025 debut seems likely.
