Earlier today we learned that Timothy Olyphant had joined the cast of Noah Hawley’s upcoming Alien series as Kirsh, the synthetic mentor of Sydney Chandler’s character Wendy. And now, Deadline is reporting that actor David Rysdahl has also been cast in the upcoming series!
After working with Noah Hawley on the fifth season of his Emmy-winning drama Fargo, which just debuted last week, David Rysdahl has solidified his place in his FX family with a series regular role in his Alien prequel series, Deadline can exclusively reveal.
As Deadline notes, David Rysdahl recently worked alongside Alien series showrunner Noah Hawley on Season 5 of Fargo. He also appeared recently in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, as well as starring in a Season 6 episode of Black Mirror. Details of Rysdahl’s character in Alien are currently unknown.
Other known cast members include Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Essie Davis, Adarsh Gourav, Kit Young and Timothy Olyphant. Thanks to Nightmare Asylum for the news.
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Whether they make something good, however, remains to be seen.
I have about as many f**ks to give as Sir Scott himself does when it comes to tempering my reactions to this project. Not a word of it sounds any good. I'll be glad to be proved wrong, but until then, my expectations are in the pits.
Who has failed?
Ridley could have used that perspective when he made the prequels. Now it's in vogue and we're about to see it reach its peak with this series.
They've already failed.
Well, Noah Hawley clearly likes being in the David Rysdahl business, as he also cast you in his upcoming Alien series. Was this in the works, pre-strike?
Yeah, I went over to Thailand for one day of camera tests, and then things shut down. Noah told me after we wrapped on Fargo. He said, "There might be a role for you on Alien," and I grew up on both Alien and Fargo. So if you had told me two years ago that I was going to be in either universe, I would've thought you were crazy, and the idea that I get to play on both playgrounds makes me feel pretty lucky and grateful. And Noah, in a similar fashion to Fargo, takes the movie and asks, "What's the DNA of this? What's the world perspective? What themes are we tackling? What was the original intent of this movie? Let me see if I can play with that in a new way." So he's doing a really interesting job of that on Alien, and it's going to be a very different but very exciting view of what the original movie was.
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This year Emma Stone in Poor Things for example. Movie of year and very creative.
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These types of characters were normal in Noah's previous series, LEGION.
-Dan Stevens: A mutant who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age.
-Rachel Keller:
She does not let anyone physically touch her because by doing so, her mind is swapped with the mind of the person she touches.
-Bill Irwin: A "geek scientist", one of the therapist Bird's specialists.He and Kerry live together in the same body, and can separate at will. Hawley sought out Irwin for his "playful approach to the characters."
-Amber Midthunder: A savant with a "childlike sense of wonder", one of Therapist Bird's specialists.� She maintains a younger appearance than Cary as she only ages when their bodies are separated.
Wendy is like Noah style and this is an author. Style Noah within the Alien universe. So it's natural that , he explore those kinds of sci-fi personalities in Alien.
Is clear that it is a risky Alien series but after more than 30 years sometimes you have jump into the pool... is good. Prometheus is more Blade Runner than others movies ALIEN . I think than this serie is more Alita, Blade Runner, Ghost in the shell but is Alien in style too. And in 8 hours is a complete styles and tematic general sfci and Alien/terror. In movie only 2 hours is different.
And even more so when Fede's movie, which is supposed to be more conservative, is released a year before.
Probably...probably. This is the corporate dystopia of Alien we're talking about.
I'm expecting something more sinister than that to be at play, honestly. Maybe outwardly Prodigy might be presenting this innovation as something to help individuals with disabilities, but I think behind closed doors we're going to be seeing something much more nefarious going on with these children in synth bodies.
Likely a disabled or neurodivergent character relying on AI and computers to navigate through normally indecipherable organizational and social situations. Either that or a disabled person using a 'Wendy' model droid as an avatar, ala Blue.
As for the actual execution of the ideas, jury is obviously still out on that one.
Also while occasional movies like 'Big' have pulled it off, "literal child in the body of an adult" is a bit of an ethical and creative minefield that I'm always wary of seeing it tackled and I'm not thrilled about seeing it in an Alien project.
Yep. The show centers around Wendy (and other children) who are part of an experiment being done by the Prodigy Corporation, in which these children's consciousnesses are being transferred into synthetic bodies (and with names like Wendy and Tootles floating about, it seems to be playing on the idea of the Lost Boys never growing old in Peter Pan).
Slight spoilery details from the leaked concept art:
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