It seems as though the silence regarding the FX Alien series may finally be coming to an end. After giving us an update that all the scripts for the first season of Noah Hawley’s show have been turned in, and production is scheduled for sometime next year, FX Executive John Landgraf has recently hinted to what we can expect with the setting.
Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Landgraf alludes to the Earth-based location of the series, one dominated by an entity other than the typical Weyland-Yutani.
“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 in 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.”
Alien vs. Predator Galaxy can confirm that the territory of mention is under the control of the Prodigy Corporation, the new company revealed in a Reddit leak which we corroborated back in March.
Landgraf goes on to reiterate the series aim of merging what worked well about the first two movies, again detailing how Ripley won’t be a part of this show and that the titular Xenomorph will be featured.
“I’m a big fan of Alien and Aliens and I remember watching both of them in the theater and how how shockingly original and surprising each of them was in its own way. And so, similar to his approach to Fargo, Noah decided to 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.”
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In the unlikely event that an alien actually makes a cameo between all the corporate intrigue and "exploration of what it means to be human" bullshit, I might glance at it.
Will that change when Alien: The Musical drops?
I've never even seen one of his shows.
It shows.
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Then why should we watch it?
f**k yes.
Not like Aliens changed the genre or anything and then Alien³ changed it again.
That's okay, they can be incorrect about that, and are incorrect about this as well in my opinion. Just like so many wrote off Prey immediately. That's what my intuition tells me though anyway.
Are we talking about Alien 3 now?
This' more horrific to me than Alien ever was honestly, in a completely different way though, and it is in essence about body horror through transhumanism.
The Alien being the catalyst for that or intervening aspect, could be absolutely fantastic, like Cold Forge or Into Charybdis.
It's what I'd call conceptual horror, (Enigma of Amigara Fault, Legion FX in this example being having your body taken over and your personality changed unwillingly and Under the Skin) instead of adrenaline horror, (Alien and The Thing and Predator and Jaws) my favourites being where you mush the two together though, such as Silent Hill and Dead Space as big examples.
But I have always found the psychology stuff more scary than the monster chasing you part.
I don't really expect something "back to basics" from this series. From the Alvarez film, however...
Which seems accurate from everything said so far.
And yet Landgraf's making the point that Alien was scary, but each entry after that's put their own spin on the concept for better or worse.
The thematic stuff's what survived from entry to entry and has persisted, not the fact it is horror, or action or thriller, or drama.
And the Alien itself, although I'd argue it's not really been the focus for the last three films at all in the franchise either, not including the AVPs.
But what about "crew expendable" and the "bonus situation"?
TL;DR: it takes place somewhere some time and is hopefully good