Last week, Noah Hawley revealed that filming on the Alien FX series will recommence in Bangkok next year after the recent strikes. He has done a further interview with The Hollywood Reporter who asked him about his current projects and the effects the recent strikes had on his work. He mentions some of the trouble he had at the start of the Alien project with the Disney-Fox merger and the studio pressuring the makers to do different things with the show.
As you said, you had a partner in Landgraf who said, “Make your version of Alien.” So, what have been the challenges of doing that?
There was a challenge early on simply because this process started in a pre-Disney Fox, and then became a Disney Fox, which was Bob Iger, and then Bob Chapek and now Iger again, and there was definitely a moment in which it felt like, on a corporate level, the people who make the creative decisions are different than the people who make the financial decisions and there was a lot of internal pressure that the show should do a specific thing or not do a specific thing.
How did that get communicated?
It was doubt. There was an element for my partners of having to navigate an org chart that was trying to take some creative power up to the next level in a way that makes it harder for artists. That said, it was temporary. We’re not in that moment now, but I think that was part of what extended the development period.
Xenomorph from Ridley Scott’s Alien
Hawley goes on to say that he collaborates with Alien director Ridley Scott on a regular basis about the show to get his insights and ideas.
What is Ridley Scott’s involvement in the TV show? Having directed the film, is he involved?
I mean, are the Coens involved in Fargo?Let’s just say, I’ve probably had more conversations with Ridley than I’ve had with Joel and Ethan. Scott Free [Productions] is producing Alien and Ridley is making two or three movies a year is basically how that’s working. I mean, Ridley has been an amazing collaborator to the degree that I can pick his brain about all of his thoughts, processes, decisions and the things that he’s learned. And I try to keep him [in the loop] and send him material so that he feels respected and included. But also, he’s doing his thing.
The Alien series is executive produced by Ridley Scott and takes place on Earth around 70 years in the future before Ripley’s story begins.
The cast includes Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther plays a soldier named CJ, Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier, a CEO. Essie Davis plays Dame Silvia and Adarsh Gourav as Slightly. Kit Young plays Tootles. The Alien TV series is due to air in 2025 on FX on Hulu.
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Well, Alex Kurtzman isn't in charge, so I don't think you have to worry there.
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Doubt it.
But of course it will have the same fake modern sheen that plagues most of the media released today, think Chernobyl was done quite well on that department.
Earth is in perhaps the most hostile. It's in a state of irrevocable suffering, constant wars, polluting the environment until it's uninhabitable. Its a planet that engages in atrocities in a never ending cycle of violence, this dystopia isn't science fiction but a very possible future.
It's a greedy Megalomania-tic unfettered capitalistic conglomerate dominated future, the powers that be "the elite" reap the benefits of interplanetary mining/harvesting, plundering resources and exploiting people who are under their pay. Despite the promise of building better worlds the companies reign Dominion basking in glory while humanity are no more than mere worker ants in a colony, or a hive if you will.
The company is cold, ruthless and will pursue domination by any means necessary, unclouded by conscience, remorse of delusions of morality, the destructive, predacious, invasive all consuming nature of the company are just as much monsters as the aliens, but you don't see them screwing each other over for a percentage, And let's say the company were to obtain Xenomorph biotech they'd be worth than before and spreading this disease throughout the galaxy tenfold.
Is this our future? maybe unless we take the initiative to chance the course of our fate, to defy corrupt forces, advocate laws that look after people's freedoms, that the properties of land are properly negotiated, compensated, traded/exchanged, to defend individualistic identities, understanding merits of tradition while not being stuck in the dark ages given by fear. That we pursuit the ambitions of life's goals but not at the expense of another's suffering. To adapt to challenges that lie ahead in an ever changing world.
Is a more ideal Utopia that prioritises peace, progress, unity, the overall betterment of humankind and the world a future thats obtainable? So far that seems like science fiction, but is it possible? Perhaps that what the TV show could evoke, on how the future is grim, but we have it in ourselves to shape our future for the better.
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But maybe in a TV series this trope could be exploited more.
You forgot political intrigue.
This is inevitable for TV shows but is also needed for features if owners want to milk the franchise.
I'm sure somebody has guessed this on the forums already that due to the number of times composer Roque Baños has collaborated with Feds Alvarez it's rather likely he'll due the score for Alien Romulus. Also I predict that composer Jeff Russo who collaborates frequently with Noah Hawley on projects that he's very like to provide music for Alien's tv series, though this is a wild guess, we'll wait and see.
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