Though much of the current attention is on the nearly upon us film, Alien: Romulus, the FX Alien Series is also on our motion tracker. The series just wrapped principal photography in Thailand, with a wrap party recently taking place for the cast & crew in Bangkok.
The working titles for the show of Alien: Prodigy and Alien: Neverland have been making the rounds, but according to Variety we may have the show’s final title. They’re reporting from an interview with FX head John Landgraf that the title for the series will be Alien: Earth. Check out a mockup we threw together below!
Landgraf referred to the series as Alien: Earth multiple times during his chat with Variety, noting that he’d like Noah Hawley to begin work on Season 2 quickly should the show be renewed:
“Noah is deep in work on Season 1 of “Alien: Earth” right now. We’re in post-production, and we are talking to him and watching cuts every week. We’re pretty bullish on “Alien: Earth” and we’ve told him that assuming, as we hope, “Alien: Earth” is a returning television series, we want him to focus on on at least writing two seasons of it before returning to a possible sixth season of “Fargo.” So it’s going to be a little while, but I’m also intensely proud of that show. [Noah] is an extraordinary talent. And we’ve been privileged to work with him for more than a decade on three shows now.”
Noah Hawley was also interviewed recently by Variety following the Emmy Nominations. When asked about the title he seemed to confirm that is indeed planned to be the final title:
John Landgraf, Chairman of FX Networks, referred to the show as “Alien: Earth” earlier today. Is that is that the official title?
“That’s the title that we have discussed. Unless it changes, I think that is the title.”
We must admit it’s not a title we were expecting, but it makes sense given the show’s setting!
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Like the people who wrote that actually watched the movie, right?
Wey-Yu accused the UPP of nuking Hadley's Hope.
Wey-Yu actually did blame the UPP for Hadley's Hope.
Ah! Thats fair... though the colonial marines technical manual does suggest that multiple (separate) WeYu teams were at the derelict and some calls/backhand negotiations had to take place to overt aggression between groups. Perhaps we are thinking of this in contemporary terms.. when a corporation is so vast it spans multiple worlds/across the stars, perhaps it *does* get a bit woolly? 😅
They lost the Prometheus - which is apparently public knowledge, with some vague information about what the ship was doing. We don't know what is ultimately known about the fate of the Covenant, but factoring in the larger scale of operations and how risky colonization efforts actually are, I can very easily imagine this being easily written off.
Aliens showed us that the Nostromo's lost was effectively wiped up the rug, and Aliens demonstrates how easy it is for one person to kick off something like this. How many other people were in on his machinations? I'd guess very little given Burke's profit/recognition driven desires.
We don't really know the scope of the Alien series but we can guess a single ship from W-Y, so we're still not talking huge amounts within very close timeframes.
I'd think Prodigy is going to be harder to deal with in Earth. Assuming they just nuke the city, I think that'd be harder to cover up with it taking place on Earth. But if the US government can get away with it in Requiem and we're hitting the point of mega-corporations getting as powerful as governments in the show, perhaps it's not so hard a reach.
We're not talking about accidentally creating redundant departments or people slipping through the cracks here.
Imagine an oil company losing an offshore rig with alarming regularity and somehow nobody ever knows why. That company won't be running too long.
I used to believe it was ridiculous and unrealistic. Then I had the actual experiences.
They could not possibly function if they were that inept.
This is really not that unbelievable. The quality of communications within global companies is laughably bad, imagine it on a galactic scale.
I feel disappointed this wasn't the '79 SJ's real official label on set.
Initially I had assumed the "Earth" part would consist of Weyland and/or Yutani corporate wrangling and clandestine directives while the Xenomorph portion would exist somewhere in space. I've always felt that the Xeno was something very few humans knew existed in the ALIEN universe even in the time of Resurrection. Not sure how you get Xeno's running around Earth without them becoming common knowledge.
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I was thinking more about David. Completely see where you're coming from, but that ship sailed 20 years ago! I'm not saying that's a good thing or they were good films, just one of those things I've become used to. I just fully expect the Aliens to be completely dealt with.
My biggest problem is the announcements about the story and usage of the creatures.
There was once a question of changing the life cycle and the function of the facehugger a little.
This worries me a bit and I'm reminded of Blombkamp's denigration of alien biology.
The timeline is also a rather negative aspect for me so far.
We'll see if that's any good or not.
Problem or correction? (assuming we're talking about the David/creation thing)
I want a sequel, goddammit.
Well I'm not what I'm seem.
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Great thing about movies is they can be whatever we want them to be.
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@Local Trouble should've said that !
Also, #Alien3TotallyHappenedDealWithItPeople
I will concede that AVP and AVPR didn't happen, but that's where I draw the line.
Away with your revisionist heresy!
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