A new article has been published over on Entertainment Weekly who have spoken to Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley and its lead actress Sydney Chandler. Chandler plays Wendy, a synthetic and the actress talks about first hearing about the series and trying to track Hawley down in Canada.
She heard Hawley, who was busy with FX’s Fargo, was filming in Canada. So as soon as she finished reading the script at 2 a.m. one early morning, she booked a flight to go find him that very day. “I called my agent and I was like, ‘Where’s Noah in Canada? And do you think there’s any possibility he would let me take him to dinner so I can talk to him about this show?'” Chandler tells Entertainment Weekly. “Noah, for some reason, said yes. We chatted for a really long time about story and character and why I felt so drawn to this Wendy character.”
Hawley mentions the climate and how corporations are featured in the show. He also mentions Timothy Olyphant’s Kirsh is in a space between a hero and a villain.
“Let’s just say the climate predictions are coming true. It’s a hotter, wetter planet. If we just extrapolate where we are now, it’s driven much more by corporations than democracies. It’s very much wrapped up in a competition for technological superiority. The nature of power is, ‘In the end, there can be only one.’ So we’re in the middle of a battle on that level for who has the power in the human race.”
Also included in the article are three new production stills from Alien: Earth. The first shows Sydney Chandler’s Wendy sitting in a chair. The second features Timothy Olyphant’s Kirsh and you can see one of the alien creatures in a stasis tube behind him. Lastly, Babou Ceesay’s Morrow is in the last one. The article says he was aboard the Weyland-Yutani ship before it crashed.
Alien: Earth will premiere Tuesday, August 12th, with the first two episodes releasing on FX at 8 p.m. ET/PT, and on Hulu at 8 p.m. ET. Alien: Earth will premiere its first two episodes in the UK on Disney+ the day after, on August 13th, with a new episode out each Wednesday.
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Also with what I presume has got to be massive automation in the future; people tend to go where the jobs are and thus are easily suckered into serfdom as seen in Alien Romulus. I mean lets face it Earth probably has a new name in the future: Pepsi-Comacst-Disney-Apple-Weyland-Yutani-Tyrell-OCP-Walmart™. Now if there was ever a shit-hole I would not want to be on that would be it.
I think Humans on Earth are facing a population collapse for unknown reasons.
Tim Olyphant as Kirsh android, Babou Cesay as Marrow android, Sydney Chandler as Wemdy android ...
real title "Androids and Alien: Earth"
The fine line could be "in the hands of a company" rather than "the company" - with Prodigy being more of a focus here.
Ultimately, it's this. Though David's comment in Covenant doesn't really fit with what we see in the rest of the films, but it's not too hard to think a major driving force of colonization is due to the condition of Earth.
I do also think that there is still wiggle room for the effects of climate change to fit within the continuity. Peter Weyland may have 'solved climate change,' but that doesn't necessarily mean all of its consequences suddenly disappeared, as you've mentioned before.
Weyland Industries did solve climate change and it was the basis for their entire terraforming technology. Weyland invented the ancestor of the APP we see in AlienS and Alien: Romulus.
The timeline establishes:
FEBRUARY 2, 2016 – WEYLAND REVERSE GLOBAL WARMING
Using a precursor to the atmospheric processor of his own invention, Peter Weyland is able to generate a localised synthetic atmosphere above the polar ice cap, effectively ending global warming.
(...)
DECEMBER 10TH, 2017 – NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Sir Peter Weyland is honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary atmospheric work over the polar ice cap.
(...)
AUGUST 9TH, 2029 – ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSOR PATENTED.
Weyland Industries earns patent number 11,280,599 for Method and Apparatus for a device that enhances the capacity of an extraterrestrial planetary environment to support life; effectively the first fully automated atmospheric processor. This patent is expected to make our founder's famous boast a reality: "There are other worlds than this one, and if there is no air to breathe, we will simply have to make it."
If we're being VERY NICE, we can say we don't know how much the problem has been solved by 2120; we're talking about heavy processes that may take decades or centuries to slow down or to be stopped/reversed entirely.
But it does seem to be a contradiction.
Ridley also wanted to tie Prometheus to Blade Runner with a Batty synthetic, and you've see what Los Angeles looks like in 2019 in this one...
Like San Angeles in Demolition Man.
What David said can be interpreted in many ways, doesn't have to mean that the earth is literally on the verge of dying in-universe.
I read more into it that we were ''trapped'' on Earth, and the Earth will be gone one day. So we're a dying species trying to expand to ensure our survival, since David was criticizing our space colonization in a rather exaggerated, grandiose way.
Good point. I guess it's never stated that the atmospheric processors create a paradise, just that they can make a planet habitable.
Also, even if we ignore the TED Talk the entire concept of the atmospheric processors contradicts climate change being an issue. Like I said in my OP, we can terraform the atmosphere of other planets but not fix our own...?
the TED talk contradicts David saying "mankind is a dying species" in Covenant
Regarding the virals, if it's not in the movie itself, it doesn't matter.
Wasn't that a deleted scene, because if it is then I can't really blame them for not acknowledging it?
What, that women are the face of Alien or that climate change is real, if your problem is with any of those things you need to grow up!
I reckon it will age quite well. unfortunately.