Noah Hawley's ALIEN Series Will Blend the Horror of ALIEN with the Action of ALIENS

Some new information has surfaced regarding Noah Hawley’s upcoming Alien series. According to AVPGalaxy, the series will blend the horror of Ridley Scott’s Alien with the action of James Cameron’s Aliens. They shared the following plot details:

“Set not too far into our future, it’s the first Alien set on Earth—and by blending both the timeless horror of the first Alien film with the non-stop action of the second, it’s going to be a scary thrill ride that will blow people back in their seats.“

It’s also being reported that the series will start shooting in March 2002 in Eastern Europe as well as Thailand, which is an interesting and different location for the franchise.

It’s also said that synthetics, or artificial persons, will also play a role in the series, “with the uploading consciousness seemingly being explored in Noah Hawley’s series.”

FX, network head John Landgraf previously talked about the series saying that it will be “very grounded” and that Hawley is “very conscious of the fact that there’s a cinematic universe.” He went on to that that, “I think you’ll also see that the show will feel like a part of the cinematic universe you’re familiar with in terms of Alien.” He also described the show as being “a beast … a really big, world-building exercise.”

Hawley previously talked about the series saying, “It’s a story that’s set on Earth also. The alien stories are always trapped… Trapped in a prison, trapped in a space ship. I thought it would be interesting to open it up a little bit so that the stakes of ‘What happens if you can’t contain it?’ are more immediate.”

The filmmaker also said that his series will tell a story about inequality and talked about what he loved about the first two movies in the franchise, “On some level it’s also a story about inequality. You know, one of the things that I love about the first movie is how ’70s a movie it is, and how it’s really this blue collar space-trucker world in which Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton are basically Waiting for Godot. They’re like Samuel Beckett characters, ordered to go to a place by a faceless nameless corporation. The second movie is such an ‘80s movie, but it’s still about grunts. Paul Reiser is middle management at best. So, it is the story of the people you send to do the dirty work.”

Hawley expands a bit on the inequality aspect of his series saying, “In mine, you’re also going to see the people who are sending them. So you will see what happens when the inequality we’re struggling with now isn’t resolved.”

FX is producing the series and it will most likely premiere sometime in 2023.