If you are wondering where the continuity of Noah Hawley’s Alien series will fall, the filmmaker has some good news for you. In an interview on the Kim Master’s The Business podcast, Hawley discusses the project in great detail, giving some insight into the upcoming series and where it stands in the canon.
“If it were just a monster movie [or TV show], I don’t think there would be enough there,” states Hawley. “It’s one of the great monsters of all time, but when you think about making ten, twenty, thirty, forty hours of something, even if you had 60% of the best horror action around, you still have 40% of ‘what are we talking about’? What’s the show about? Thematically, character-wise, it has to exist as a drama outside of those other elements.”
“The thing with Alien is that it’s not just a great monster movie; it’s the story of humanity trapped between its primordial, parasitic past and the A.I. future, and they’re both trying to kill us, so there’s nowhere to go,” he continues. “So it’s really a story of: does humanity deserve to survive? Does humanity’s arrogance in thinking that we’re no longer food, and its arrogance in creating these A.I. beings who we think will do what we tell them, but ultimately might lose their minds – is there a way out?”
And for those fans wanting to know about canon or how this falls into the overall Alien universe, Hawley notes the series is set to ignore Scott’s Prometheus. He tells the outlet:
“Ridley and I have talked about this and many elements of the show, but I think for me, this perfect lifeform, as it was described in the first film, is the product of millions of years of evolution that created this creature that may have existed for a million years out there in space, and the idea that it was a bio-weapon created half an hour ago is inherently less useful to me. In terms of the mythology and what’s scary about this monster.”
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Timothy Olyphant, Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Essie Davis, Adarsh Gourav, Kit Young, and David Rysdahl will star in the series, which is being produced by 209th Television and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free for FX on Hulu.
