Richest Noah interview about Alien so far:
"The prequels aside, because those are historical documents, what do we really know about the 'Alien' universe? We know there's a company called Weyland-Yutani. We don't know a lot more about it. We don't know what the government structure is, the politics of it, what's Earth — none of that. That's liberating on some level to not have to thread various needles. But the challenge is also that we're only ever in these artificial environments, the spaceship or a prison or whatever. What does an apartment look like on 'Alien'? That basic stuff of the palette of 'Alien,' the design of that ship, that dripping is so specific. I think that the sweaty aesthetic of 'Alien' plays very well into climate change and the hot, wet future that we're all moving toward. Technology in the first two movies was rooted in the retro futurism of the '70s and '80s. Is that our aesthetic? Those challenges really excite me because I would much rather deal with computers that look like that than holograms and feel like I'm in an Apple store.
"What's rooted in the horror of 'Alien' is discovery. The life cycle of this creature, besides being insane, is truly terrifying. It's an egg, and inside that egg is a creature that attaches to your face. I'm already out. But then that creature that attaches to your face lays another creature inside of you — hold on a second. Then that creature bursts out of your chest and grows to 9 feet tall? What is this creature? The experience of watching "Alien" for the first time is so visceral; it just gets worse and worse and worse and worse. [Director] James Cameron was able to take that and turn it into an action movie in which you knew what the life cycle was, so there was the horror of anticipation. But who's laying those eggs? So he added that other element to it. But after that, there's no discovery or surprise, we're just doing that again and again.
The challenge for me is: Is there a way that we can take the audience back to "wait, what's happening? What does this thing do?" That was the first challenge. The second challenge, which is why I think it justifies a show with multiple hours of storytelling, is that it's not just a monster movie. It's about humanity trapped between this primordial "they want to eat us" past and the AI future, and they're both trying to kill us. We've created these tools that are turning on us, or if we program them correctly, we'll go insane. Those elements of humanity, artificial intelligence, trans-humanism — 'what's the future of humanity?' is a really interesting thing to talk about right now. Combined with the revenge of nature — we're experiencing that now as weather or viruses or whatever. If we're in a place where our self-driving cars are gonna kill us, or we're going to drown in them, there's a story to be placed in the middle of that."
https://starsinfocity.com/noah-hawley-on-fargo-season-5-jon-hamms-nipple-rings-and-alien/A retro-futurist aesthetic confirmed, along with my suspicions that the show will be about the climate crisis. His intention to "remystify the alien" seems more promising when expanded upon.