The Alien Show Has Some Good News—and Some Not-So-Good News

Ever since information broke that Legion and Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley was making a TV present set within the Alien universe, we’ve been determined to be taught extra. When’s it set, the place’s it set, who’s in it, and may we have now it in our eyeballs proper now thanks very a lot? Several of these particulars have been revealed within the subsequent months and now there are much more, together with one which’s a tad lower than encouraging.

We’ll begin with that unhealthy information. Speaking at a recent event, as chronicled by the Hollywood Reporter, FX chief John Landgraf mentioned that Hawley can be ending a complete different present, the fifth season of Fargo, earlier than making Alien. “We need to shoot Fargo this winter, so we’ll be shooting Fargo before Alien though we have more scripts for Alien than Fargo,” Landgraf mentioned. “Noah is writing both right now.”

The excellent news is Hawley has made extra progress on Alien than Fargo up to now (Landgraf has learn 5 Alien scripts and just one for Fargo) so the world of the sci-fi sequence is already very well-outlined. And that world, as we already knew, is ours. Hawley’s Alien, as beforehand reported, will happen on Earth, and Landgraf revealed a bit extra particularly about when within the general Alien timeline that’s.

“Alien takes place before Ripley,” the pinnacle of FX mentioned. “It’s the first story in the Alien franchise that takes place on Earth. It takes place on our planet, near the end of this century we’re currently in, 70-odd years from now.” So it’s nearly a contemporary Alien story? That appears each intriguing and complicated. “All I can tell you is Ripley won’t be a part of it, and neither will any other characters—other than the alien itself,” Landgraf added.

Thankfully, Hawley himself has beforehand defined a bit extra about what precisely is occurring in his Alien present. “In the movies, we have this Weyland-Yutani Corporation, which is clearly also developing artificial intelligence,” he mentioned again in January. “But what if there are other companies trying to look at immortality in a different way, with cyborg enhancements or transhuman downloads? Which of those technologies is going to win? It’s ultimately a classic science fiction question: does humanity deserve to survive?”

However that performs out, and wherever the xenomorph creatures slot in, Landgraf believes it will likely be pleasing for followers. “I hope [fans] will feel like it’s faithful to the franchise they love but also a brave and original reinvention of that franchise,” he mentioned. “Setting it on Earth is really interesting. We have to think forward about the future of the planet in terms of the environment, governance, technology and create and design a version of the planet in the future … Noah wants to do that in a distinctive and original way.”

Sounds intriguing! Too unhealthy it’s gonna be a minimum of a 12 months, possibly extra, till we get to see it.

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