The last few days have seen a slew of interesting sci-fi news that you’re going to want to read about. We’ve got some information about a timeline clarification for the upcoming Alien TV show, a new M. Night Shyamalan, the renewal of the phenomenal Fallout TV show, and great news about Severance Season 2.
Amazon renews Fallout for a second season
It’s time to celebrate like the Vault door has opened for the first time in decades, because Amazon has renewed its critically acclaimed Fallout TV show for a second season. The show’s official Twitter account confirms that the showrunners and fan reception impressed Amazon the most, with this series being among the top three to air on the service since Rings of Power.
I know many of the Destructoid team have found themselves sitting down to watch just one or two episodes, then proceeded to watch the entire thing. I think the best thing about it is that it cements New Vegas in the canonical timeline, and I can’t wait to see where Amazon takes the universe next.
Severance Season 2 filming is complete
Collider reports that filming for Severance Season 2 has just wrapped up. The Apple TV+ series has a near-perfect review score from aggregators and several awards and nominations. It’s not hard to see why, because it boasts such an intriguing idea at its core: what if your brain was locked off from your work life in your personal time, and vice versa?
I’ve got high hopes for Season 2 because filming, and pretty much everything else for it, paused during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. It’s been such a long time since the show initially released that now’s a great time to rewatch the first season and remember those questions, or come up with new ones, that you want answered in Season 2.
A suitably twisty time is in store in M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap
While his movies aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, there’s no denying that M. Night Shyamalan has made some absolute bangers, and it looks like he’s done it again with Trap. As reported by SciFiNow, the movie stars Josh Hartnett in the leading role of a father taking his daughter to a music concert that’s quickly revealed as a trap set to catch a serial killer.
The twist here is that the father is the serial killer, and has someone locked in his basement at the time the concert is happening. Nothing is ever as it seems in Shyamalan’s films, and I’m expecting something mind-blowing to come out of nowhere before we reach the conclusion. August can’t come soon enough for this one.
Sandra Yi Sencindiver joins the Alien TV show cast
Deadline has confirmed that Sandra Yi Sencindiver has joined the upcoming Alien TV show. Sencindiver is probably best known for her work on the Foundation Apple TV+ adaptation, Amazon Prime’s Wheel of Time, and even Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
Sencindiver’s role in the show should see her feature in several episodes as a senior member of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Instead of focusing on the origins of the Xenomorphs, the show instead looks at the nefarious company that somehow knew about humanity’s creators and the darkest creatures of sci-fi horror before anyone else. It’s set somewhere towards the end of the current century, before the original Alien movie.