FX chairman John Landgraf has probably revealed the official title of Noah Hawley’s upcoming Alien TV collection.
FX chairman John Landgraf is having a very good day, with the programmer scoring 93 nominations on the 76th Emmy Awards. He spoke with Selection about FX’s success and dropped a number of particulars about some upcoming exhibits, together with the doable title of Noah Hawley’s Alien TV collection.
“Noah is deep in work on Season 1 of ‘Alien: Earth’ right now,” Landgraf mentioned. “We’re in post-production, and we’re speaking to him and watching cuts each week.“
Landgraf continued, saying he’s very optimistic concerning the collection and hopes Hawley will write a minimum of two seasons earlier than returning to Fargo season 6: “We’re fairly bullish on ‘Alien: Earth’ and we’ve informed him that assuming, as we hope, ‘Alien: Earth’ is a returning tv collection, we wish him to concentrate on on a minimum of writing two seasons of it earlier than returning to a doable sixth season of ‘Fargo.’“
Sydney Chandler, who stars within the Alien TV collection as Wendy, not too long ago revealed that she has completed capturing the collection. Her character is claimed to be a hybrid meta-human with the mind and consciousness of a kid however the physique of an grownup. The collection additionally stars Essie Davis, Alex Lawther, Package Younger, Adarsh Gourav, Timothy Olyphant, and extra.
Noah Hawley has teased that the collection will open up the sometimes confined stakes of the franchise. “The alien stories are always trapped … trapped in a prison, trapped in a spaceship,” Hawley mentioned. “I believed it could be fascinating to open it up a bit bit in order that the stakes of ‘What happens if you can’t include it?’ are extra fast.“
Companies, together with the notorious Weylan-Yutani, are additionally mentioned to play a main position within the collection. “In the movies, we have this Weyland-Yutani Corporation, which is clearly also developing artificial intelligence—but what if there are other companies trying to look at immortality in a different way, with cyborg enhancements or transhuman downloads?” Hawley mentioned. “Which of these applied sciences goes to win? It’s in the end a basic science fiction query: does humanity need to survive? As Sigourney Weaver mentioned in that second film, ‘I don’t know which species is worse. No less than they don’t f*ck one another over for a share.’“
What do you consider Alien: Earth because the title of the TV collection?