When Alien Day 2016 rolled around the Alien community was introduced to its first taste of a full cast audio drama set within the Alien universe with Alien: Out of the Shadows. We were treated to a second one when Alien Day 2017 came upon us when Alien: River of Pain was released. River of Pain gave us an audio telling of how Hadley’s Hope became over-ran by Aliens.
The crew over at the Perfect Organism Podcast have been working on their own audio drama and their own take on the falling of Hadley’s Hope. Having been working on this since April of 2017, Perfect Organism have now released the first chapter of their two part series!
“Perfect Organism is proud to present a groundbreaking new audio drama set in the Alien universe. The culmination of nearly a year of work, Proximity is a character-driven glimpse into the nightmare that erupted in the Hadley’s Hope colony on Acheron in June of 2179.
Written and directed by JM Prater, Proximity is the story of Anne and Aaron Andrews, two young colonists trying to hold it together while the world around them falls apart. With immersive sound design, an orchestral score, and a talented cast of voice actors from around the world, Proximity is a love letter to the Alien Saga created by people who love it madly and truly.
This is for you. We hope you enjoy it.”
Be sure to head on over to the Perfect Organism’s Facebook page and let them know what you think of Chapter One!
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Part 2 has been released. They've released it as part of a super-cut with Part 1. I've not had the chance to listen to it yet.
As an aside I hope Disney look at this story now they have the IP. A series on netflix or amazon prime showing the fall of the colony over 6 to 10 parts would be amazing.
Damn, for some reason I thought it would be the same length as River of Pain, just split into multiple episodes.
Well, I'll reserve judgement until I listen to the second part.
This is making me feel like they could do a prequel on LV-426 as a movie. It could really work well and it would be fun to revisit Hadley's hope. It's really a "Titanic" story. You know it's not going to end well, but the struggle leading up to the end is epic.
Can you just clarify how long it is in total? It's not just two 20 min episodes and that's it, is it? I thought you were going to release it over weekly instalments so I thought there were going to be many episodes.
First impressions was just how professionally it all came together. It sounded like a top-notch production. I also enjoyed that they took a different take on the topic, focusing on a different kind of character. It might have been too easy to fall into the trap of it being about the Jordan's or their close friends.
As Chapter 1 dealt with a lot of character set-up, I'm looking forward to Chapter 2 and seeing how the story comes together completely!
I've always wanted a "what happened to Hadley's Hope during Xenomorph outbreak". You'd get a kick-ass, albeit human tragic, ALIENS film. We know the colonists did not have high powered weapons and only seismic charges as defense, but in a way that is awesome and suspenseful.
Seeing humans and colonists try to defend their self preservation, the claustrophobia, cracking under pressure, desperate actions, seeing ALIENS crawl through vents. The possibilities are endless.
Sure we know how it ends (badly), but with imagination and competent film making it would be a case of journey not destination.
Plus it would not break canon or continuity.
Thanks for the heads up Corporal Hicks
It's like Alien Covenant and them cutting out the David/Shaw story.