Some more information about Noah Hawley’s new “Alien” television series on FX has emerged in comments from chairman John Landgraf.
Speaking with THR recently, Landgraf says Hawley’s aim with the series to create an experience similar to watching Ridley Scott and James Cameron’s films for the first time:
“Noah decided not to take Ripley or any character from Alien – except perhaps the xenomorph itself – but go back and figure out what made the franchise so great and so durable in the first place and see if he could find an experience that felt like walking into a theater and seeing one of those first two movies, where you get caught off-guard. That’s all I can say at this point, though.”
One element that will be semi-incorporated is the Weylan-Yutani corporation. The organisation will reportedly make a more subdued appearance in the series, with one of its competitors being more of a focus:
“The Alien cinematic universe is that it’s a world where that’s sort of dominated by large corporate entities, and Weylan-Yutani has been an important component of the movies. There are references to that corporation in this show. But it actually takes place in the territory of a different corporation that Noah invented.”
As previously reported, Hawley has turned in all his scripts for the show, which will be set on Earth sometime this century and will start shooting in 2023.
