Noah Hawley on Alien TV series: No Ripley, it's Earth-based, and, actually, capitalism is the real monster
The Fargo showrunner has two episodes of FX's Alien series written
It’s only been four years since the Alien series last burst through our chest to sear the science fiction landscape with acid blood. 2017’s Alien: Covenant which —based on the quasi-lackluster box office—will probably be Ridley Scott’s last Alien movie. It was a particularly bleak installment to end on. But all is not quiet on the factory line of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. For one thing, Neill Blomkamp’s Alien sequel is still lurking around the air vents of the rumor mill. (Why does a mill have an air vent? Why to fit the metaphor, of course.) Unfortunately, though, it does seem like that project is dead. Meanwhile, one Alien thing that is taking shape is Noah Hawley’s FX TV series. Speaking to Vanity Fair, the Fargo showrunner gave some choice details of what this new breed of xenomorph adventure will look like.
Hawley says that he’s got two episodes written so far and he hints at returning to some core ideas about the series, primarily focusing on the Alien series as monster movies with a hint of evolutionary terror. “What’s next for me, it looks like, is [an] Alien series for FX, taking on that franchise and those amazing films by Ridley Scott and James Cameron and David Fincher,” he said. “Those are great monster movies, but they’re not just monster movies. They’re about humanity trapped between our primordial, parasitic past and our artificial intelligence future—and they’re both trying to kill us. Here you have human beings and they can’t go forward and they can’t go back. So I find that really interesting.”