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Ridley Scott and “The Terror” Crew Discuss Their Voyage [Video]
In this new video, filmmaker & executive producer Ridley Scott discusses how truth wrestles with fiction in bringing “The Terror” to life on television, while a second with the cast and creators examine why Sir John Franklin, Capt. Francis Crozier and Capt. James Fitzjames were the “astronauts of their day.”
Starring Jared Harris (“The Crown”) and Tobias Menzies (“Outlander”), “The Terror” is set in 1847, when a Royal Naval expedition crew searching for the Northwest Passage is attacked by a mysterious predator that stalks the ships and their crew in a suspenseful and desperate game of survival. It’s based on a true story, which means that, yes, a crew once went on a search for the Northwest Passage.
The rest of the cast includes Ciarán Hinds (Justice League) as Sir John Franklin; Paul Ready (Cuffs) as Dr. Henry Goodsir; Adam Nagaitis (Suffragette) as Cornelius Hickey; Nive Nielsen (The New World) as Lady Silence; Ian Hart (Neverland) as Thomas Blanky; and Trystan Gravelle (Mr. Selfridge) as Henry Collins.
The 10-episodes series will premiere on March 26, 2018.
Trystan Gravelle as Henry Collins – The Terror _ Season 1, Episode 1 – Photo Credit: Screengrab/AMC
– The Terror _ Season 1, Episode 2 – Photo Credit: Screengrab/AMC
Adam Nagaitis as Cornelius Hickey – The Terror _ Season 1, Episode 1 – Photo Credit: Aidan Monaghan/AMC
Tobias Menzies as James Fitzjames – The Terror _ Season 1, Episode 1 – Photo Credit: Aidan Monaghan/AMC
Ciarán Hinds as John Franklin, Tobias Menzies as James Fitzjames – The Terror _ Season 1, Episode 1 – Photo Credit: Screengrab/AMC
Paul Ready as Dr. Henry Goodsir, Alfie Kingsnorth as David Young – The Terror _ Season 1, Episode 1 – Photo Credit: Aidan Monaghan/AMC
Ciarán Hinds as John Franklin, Jared Harris as Francis Crozier – The Terror _ Season 1, Episode 2 – Photo Credit: Aidan Monaghan/AMC
Jared Harris as Francis Crozier – The Terror _ Season 1, Episode 2 – Photo Credit: Aidan Monaghan/AMC
Ian Hart as Thomas Blanky-The Terror_Season 1, Episode 3-photo credit:Aidan Monaghan/AMC
Jared Harris as Francis Crozier – The Terror _ Season 1, Episode 3 – Photo Credit: Screengrab/AMC
Paul Ready as Dr. Henry Goodsir; single – The Terror _ Season 1, Episode 3 – Photo Credit: Aidan Monaghan/AMC
Ciarán Hinds as John Franklin – The Terror _ Season 1, Episode 3 – Photo Credit: Screengrab/AMC
Tobias Menzies as James Fitzjames – The Terror _ Season 1, Episode 3 – Photo Credit: Screengrab/AMC
Nive Nielsen as Lady Silence – The Terror _ Season 1, Episode 3 – Photo Credit: Aidan Monaghan/AMC
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.”
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