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Robert Englund Teases an Upcoming Role on a “Show That’s Terribly Popular”

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4 years ago

March 17, 2020

The last time Robert Englund appeared on television was in the 2018 episode of “The Goldbergs” titled “Mister Knifey-Hands,” wherein the horror icon played Freddy Krueger. He’s back on the small screen this week as the host of Travel Channel’s new series “True Terror With Robert Englund,” and he’s also teasing an upcoming role on a popular TV show.

Chatting with Broke Horror Fan, Englund teased:

“I’ve got something coming up that I’m going to be shooting later this month. I’m not allowed to talk about it, but it also is very challenging, on a show that’s terribly, terribly popular. And I’m looking forward to the fan reaction to that as well.”

These comments, we assume, were made prior to television and film productions being shut down in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, so it’s likely that whatever production Englund is referring to has been shut down for the time being. We do know that genre shows such as “Stranger Things,” “Supernatural” and “Fear the Walking Dead” had been filming this month, for what that’s worth. Could Englund be teasing a trip to Hawkins in the fourth season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things”? Perhaps a return to “Supernatural” in the show’s final season?

Maybe even “American Horror Story,” which was set to begin filming its 10th season soon?

We can only speculate for now, but we’ll report more as we learn it.

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Don’t Forget There’s an “Alien” TV Series Too! Here’s the Latest Update

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4 hours ago

April 19, 2024

John Squires

Pictured: 'Alien: Covenant'

There’s a lot going on in the world of Alien at the moment. The original classic is returning to theaters, for starters, and the Xenomorphs will be fighting Marvel’s superheroes in the upcoming mashup comic Aliens vs. Avengers. Of course, the main event for 2024 is Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, a brand new big screen movie set between Alien and Aliens!

With so much going on, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Disney is also working on an “Alien” television series, in the works for FX from creator Noah Hawley (“Legion”).

The Alien franchise’s first ever television series is likely to arrive sometime in 2025, set to be the first story in the franchise that takes place on Earth, roughly 70 years in the future.

FX teases, “Expect a scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth.”

So what’s the latest on the “Alien” TV series? Deadline reports today that filming is underway in Thailand, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Foundation”) is the latest actor to sign on.

According to Deadline’s report this morning, the series is set 30 years before the events of the original Alien – Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, meanwhile, takes place 20 years *after* the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien – dealing with “the emergence of the story’s infamous Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the race between corporations to create new android life.”

Deadline adds in today’s casting report, “We understand that Sencindiver appears in multiple eps and will play a senior member of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.”

Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling), Babou Ceesay (“Guerrilla”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Wonder Woman 1984”), Erana James (“Uproar”), Lily Newmark (“Sex Education”), Diêm Camille (“Washington Black”), Adrian Edmondson (“War & Peace”), Timothy Olyphant (“Fargo”), David Rysdahl (“Fargo”), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World), Samuel Blenkin (“Black Mirror”), Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger), and Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral) star in the upcoming sci-fi/horror series.

Sydney Chandler is playing a character named Wendy in the series, said to be “a hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult.”