Screen Actors Guild Strike Likely To Affect Noah Hawley’s Alien Series

As the conflict between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood continues, the Screen Actor’s Guild has also joined the battle against the studio system. With many US productions already shut down by the writers strikes, some American productions taking place aboard has managed to circumvent the strikes.

With SAG having now joined the fight, those productions with union actors are now going to find themselves struggling and this likely includes FX and Noah Hawley’s Alien series.

As outlined by Variety, several members of the series’ as yet unannounced cast are believed to be members of SAG and while might not cause an entire shutdown of production, will leave the series having to figure out some problems if the strikes continues into September.

FX’s “Alien,” a series adaptation of the “Alien” franchise written by Noah Hawley and Ridley Scott, is currently in pre-production in Thailand. Sources indicate the show will be a large-scale undertaking that’s reportedly booked out multiple Bangkok studios and hired vast quantities of lighting equipment.

However, a mix of SAG-AFTRA and Equity members comprise the cast (two of the main leads are believed to be SAG-AFTRA members), meaning that production will need to work around the absence of key cast members. The show’s Thailand-based producer Chris Lowenstein declined to comment.

While not currently filming, Hawley’s Alien series is expected to go in front of cameras in September in Thailand. Variety also noted above that the series had “reportedly booked out multiple Bangkok studios.” While there’s been little in the way of official news for the upcoming series, Hawley did recently comment on his intent to bring mystery back to the Alien.

“When FX asked me if I was interested in adapting what is now a franchise, but for me was always this film, I had to think about what it was about the movie that inspired originally and would I be able to create that for an audience. Of course, you can only see Alien for the first time once and there’s something so unpredictable to the creature at the heart of it, and so disturbing about it, that after 6 movies you think “well, maybe there’s no mystery left to it.” What’s interesting to me is to try to remystify the franchise. The creature, the story, for a modern audience in the way that my 15-year-old won’t think is slow, is the requirement. “

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