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Noah Hawley’s Alien series wraps production, unveils title

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Noah Hawley’s Alien series for FX has wrapped its production, and the filmmaker behind the upcoming prequel is excited to share it with fans. Creator Noah Hawley was celebrating his other FX series, Fargo, earning 15 Emmy nominations, when he revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he’d finally wrapped production on the now-titled Alien: Earth. […]

Noah Hawley’s Alien series is coming to FX with multiple seasons planned

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Noah Hawley is known for his hit FX series Legion, but it was primarily considered too strange and aimless in some critic’s eyes. But Hawley knows the criticisms, so he is taking a more solid approach in the future with his very own Alien series coming to FX. Speaking to Collider, Hawley spills the details […]

Noah Hawley’s Alien series will ignore the events of Prometheus and Alien: Covenant

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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 […]

FX’s Alien series adds David Rysdahl to its cast

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Not long after announcing Justified star Timtohy Olyphant’s casting, FX’s Alien TV series has added yet another familiar name from its network to Noah Hawley’s upcoming series. Per Deadline, Fargo‘s David Rysdahl has joined in a series regular role. Unlike much of the announced cast, details on Rysdahl’s character are unknown. Leading the series is Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry […]

Timothy Olyphant boards Noah Hawley’s FX Alien series

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With production finally underway on Noah Hawley’s highly anticipated Alien Series, there has been a new addition to the crew in the shape of Mandalorian star Timothy Olyphant. Deadline reports that Olyphant will star opposite Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling) in Hawley‘s prequel series, which is being executive produced by Ridley Scott, and is rumoured to […]

Fargo season 5 trailer sees Juno Temple on the run

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FX has released the official trailer for the upcoming fifth season of its dark comedy crime anthology Fargo. Based on The Coen Brothers’ 1996 film and developed by Noah Hawley, the new season sees Juno Temple on the run from the law as her troublesome past comes back to haunt her, disrupting her new suburban family […]

Noah Hawley’s Alien series cast revealed as production begins on FX show

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Despite disruption from the ongoing strikes which have ground Hollywood studios to a halt, FX’s long-gestating Alien series has kicked off production in Thailand this past week – although for the time being the project is having to shoot around its SAG-AFTRA-affiliated cast members who remain unavailable due to the ongoing industrial action. The Alien […]

Noah Hawley’s Alien series finds its lead in Sydney Chandler

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Those pesky xenomorphs have been dormant since 2017’s Alien: Covenant threatened to put the franchise into cryogenic sleep, but these last few weeks have seen Fede Alvarez’s Alien movie start production, and now Noah Hawley’s FX Alien series has found its lead in Don’t Worry Darling‘s Sydney Chandler.  During the latest episode of The Hot […]

Noah Hawley’s Alien TV series expected to begin production this year

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It has been a while since we’ve heard any updates about Noah Hawley’s long-in-development Alien TV series for FX, but yesterday at FX’s Television Critics Association panel a major update was given with the show expected to begin production later this year. Hawley’s Alien is set long before Ridley Scott’s first film featuring Sigourney Weaver as Ripley and […]