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Noah has an incredible ability to both find a way of being faithful and showing fidelity to an original creation, like to the Coen brothers or to Ridley Scott’s movie and James Cameron’s follow-up Aliens, but also to bring something new that represents both an extension and reinvention of a franchise at the same time. 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. It takes place on our planet, near the end of this century we’re currently in, 70-odd years from now. It’s the first story in the Alien franchise that takes place on Earth. He offered these key details about the series' set and setting: A lien takes place before Ripley. “She’s one of the great characters of all time, and I think the story has been told pretty perfectly, and I don’t want to mess with it.”įX chief John Landgraf confirms that it's not just Ripley getting a well-deserved vacation-it's her entire crew. (Somewhere, Ripley is breathing a sigh of relief.) “It’s not a Ripley story,” Hawley said. Hawley is quick to point out that he’s not planning to send the franchise’s greatest character through the Xenomorph ringer again. Speaking of Sigourney Weaver: don’t expect to see Ellen Ripley here. At least they don't fuck each other over for a percentage.' 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? Which of those technologies is going to win? It’s ultimately a classic science fiction question: does humanity deserve to survive? As Sigourney Weaver said in that second movie, 'I don't know which species is worse. Someone’s going to monopolize electricity.

At this moment, I describe that as Edison versus Westinghouse versus Tesla. In an exclusive interview with Esquire, Hawley discussed the sea of competition his big baddies will face in the new series: It’s set on Earth of the future.

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If we as a society can’t figure out how to prop each other up and spread the wealth, then what’s going to happen to us?' “So you will see what happens when the inequality we’re struggling with now isn’t resolved. “In, you’re also going to see the people who are sending them,” Hawley said. But it actually takes place in the territory of a different corporation that Noah invented.” But don't expect any familiar framing here Hawley plans to widen the lens from the franchise’s usual “grunts,” with an added emphasis on the corporate raiders dispatching them into deep space. There are references to that corporation in this show.

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FX chief John Landgraf confirms that the series will focus on a new corporate baddie, telling IndieWire, 'Weyland-Yutani has been an important component of the movies. In later installments of the Alien franchise, that “faceless nameless corporation” was sketched in as the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, a big bad mega-corporate profiteer whose activities include deep space transport, planetary colonization, and terraforming (to say nothing of their shady business studying Xenomorphs).

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The second movie is such an ’80s movie, but it’s still about grunts.” They’re like Samuel Beckett characters, ordered to go to a place by a faceless nameless corporation. “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. “On some level it’s also a story about inequality,” Hawley said in that same conversation. Discussing his inspiration for where to take the franchise, Hawley points to the series’ long engagement with working class characters, from interstellar merchants to Marines on assignment. With an Earth setting comes Earth problems-namely, income inequality. 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.” “Trapped in a prison, trapped in a spaceship. “The Alien stories are always trapped,” Hawley told Vanity Fair. Hawley’s Alien will blast out of the airlock with one huge departure from what fans of the franchise know and love: the story will be set on Earth.

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Read on for the full rundown of what to expect. And now, new details are emerging about how the series will square up with canon. The show is still in early development, but in an interview with Esquire, Hawley teases an interpretation that blends the franchise’s classic creature feature structure with a modern parable about corporate greed. Ewan McGregor Plays 2 Roles in 'Fargo' Season 3.

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