I think Noah is doing Alien as a feminist retelling of Peter Pan, because he sees the original film as a feminist retelling of Snow White, in the vain of what this piece argues:
http://reel3.com/reassessing-alien-sexuality-and-the-anxieties-of-men/I have been following his work diligently and he is lately very invested in a childs response to crisis, and how that response can both save and doom us. Its obvious he will be exploring these exact themes in the show. His recent novel Anthem includes a youth suicide epidemic thats presented as a mythical plague from a fantasy novel and the protagonists are this Fellowship of The Ring band of teenagers that meet in an anxiety clinic. The villain in their quest is literally Jeffrey Epstein lol, who is described as The Wizard. Different responses to existential angst in times of crisis are explored amongst the youth: some teenage boys have militarized and call themselves The Tyler Durdens, there is a 14 year old boy that has convinced himself that he is Randall Flagg, other kids have childishly ingenious and/or naive solutions to the crisis etc.
I think this will be the core thing this show will explore: the spectrum of a childs responses to a world-ending threat. How some grow up early and others refuse to grow up. How the childishness of some provides solutions the mature cant see, where others turn to violently denialist juvenile narcissism. Peter Pan and Wendy in the face of extinction. No wonder Noah indicated he is making this show for (or maybe about) his 15 year old daughter.
Most of the cast are the lost boys, in this case 10 year olds in synth warrior bodies, Boy Kavalier is Peter Pan and I suspect his manipulative advisor Atom Ein will be Captain Hook, our villain.
