Coming exclusively from movie news outlet Deadline, we have a new piece of casting news for Noah Hawley’s currently in production Alien series for FX. Actor Timothy Olyphant has been cast in the upcoming series, apparently playing the synthetic scientist character Kirsh. Per Deadline:
Details about Olyphant’s character are not being disclosed. I hear he plays Kirsh, a synth who acts as a mentor and trainer for Chandler’s Wendy who is a hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult.
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Olyphant is a high profile actor who has been in numerous films such as The Crazies, Snowden, Hitman, Scream 2, and many others. He’s also starred in numerous TV series and has previously worked with Alien series showrunner Noah Hawley on his FX series Fargo.
Filming for the Alien series was disrupted due to the Hollywood industry strikes, but Hawley has stated that he’s been able to shoot some of the first episode and filming is set to resume early in 2024. Olyphant joins confirmed cast members Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Essie Davis, Adarsh Gourav, and Kit Young.
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I'll believe it when I see it. With Ridley as a producer I fear more flute playing robot nonsense.
Hawley's been pitching/formulating this idea since before Disney even acquired Fox. The AI focus in this particular instance stems directly from him and ideas that he's had for years, not from Ridley.
Titan Publishing is that you?
https://www.joblo.com/alien-rysdahl/
Excited for this series that much more now for sure!
Kirsh is simply listed here as being a synth - no idea if this means he is a standard android as we know them to be from all of the previous films, or if he's another android chassis with a human consciousness piloting it a la Wendy, but I'm inclined to think the former, with him as a more traditional android.
"Details about Olyphant's character are not being disclosed. I hear he plays Kirsh, a synth who acts as a mentor and trainer for Chandler's Wendy who is a hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult."
Unless there's an error it describes him as a Synth, Wendy shes's a Hybrid, they both have physical synthetic bodies white fluid instead of blood etc but Wendy carries a human consciousness.
@skheltter your right in that Kirsch being the mentor role is very likely to be serious, sophisticated and calculated likely more Ash and David and less Bishop and Walter.
@skheltter your right in that Kirsch being the mentor role is very likely to be serious, sophisticated and calculated likely more Ash and David and less Bishop and Walter.
Wendy is the hybrid with the mind of a child and body of an adult
Generally in Alien films Synthetics are the most intriguing characters who's actors Ian Holme, Lance Henriksen, Winona Ryder, Michael Fassbender, "Charlize Theron??? Whether or not sure an android" have given top notch performances.
f**k me that character description though.
A teaser would be nice, given he already has a director's cut.
Between him and Cailee Spaeny, we are doing pretty good.
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Damn, this is BIG.