Peter Dinklage has joined the cast of Alien: Earth, which creates a strange meta-note for the franchise. So far, no details have been revealed about Dinklage's character in the upcoming FX series and ...

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The Alien franchise has an incredibly promising future, but the vision is also overly complicated thanks to all the movies in ...