Alien TV Series From Noah Hawley and Ridley Scott CONFIRMED

[Corporal Hicks]

Aliens chestburster had limbs.

And the original had suggestions of them as well.

[Kimo]

A bit late to the party but 3 things come to mind.
1) I do not want Ridley Scott anywhere near the script, but I don't mind him directing an episode or two.
2) Disney, better not make it family friendly.
3) The must use that Mandalorian world building tech what ever it's called? that cast real time world's and lights.

[Evanus]

Aliens chestburster had limbs.

And the original had suggestions of them as well.

Yeah but they were still mostly snakelike, small limbs and head attached to the rest of the body.

This one is shaped more like the adult form, seems like it has legs as well. Probably means nothing, but it reminded me of the Covenant burster.

[Ingwar]

Has anyone seen Fargo series? Noah Hawley, what a writter! I'm no longer worried about Alien series.

[Nightmare Asylum]

Aliens chestburster had limbs.

And the original had suggestions of them as well.

And let us not forget this squishy boi:

1) I do not want Ridley Scott anywhere near the script, but I don't mind him directing an episode or two.

That's fine, if in return I get a Ridley Scott helmed Alien: Covenant sequel.

2) Disney, better not make it family friendly.

FX (and, by extension, 'FX on Hulu') exclusively puts out shows aimed at adult audiences. And both of Hawley's previous shows have been with them, so he seems to be in good graces over there (even post-Disney takeover) enough to get to call his shots.

[chrisr232007]

I read that there is multiple Alien shows in the works. Sorry I didn't save the link.

[Nightmare Asylum]

I read that there is multiple Alien shows in the works. Sorry I didn't save the link.

I did a little digging to see if I could find a source on this, and ultimately wound up here:

https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/disney-reportedly-developing-3-alien-tv-shows/

With 'We Got This Covered' as the source (and their only citation being some guy's Patreon), I'd say that this is almost certainly fake.

[chrisr232007]

I read that there is multiple Alien shows in the works. Sorry I didn't save the link.

I did a little digging to see if I could find a source on this, and ultimately wound up here:

https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/disney-reportedly-developing-3-alien-tv-shows/

With 'We Got This Covered' as the source (and their only citation being some guy's Patreon), I'd say that this is almost certainly fake.

Ah got ya. Thank you.

[Kradan]

'We Got This Covered'

[BlueMarsalis79]

Trustworthy indeed...

[judge death]

Aliens chestburster had limbs.

And the original had suggestions of them as well.

Have a theory based on the three alien movies: That the chestbursters size depends on: 1: The time it is inside the host/how long it takes to gestate before adrenaline from the host or the chestbursters own body sets off the bursting action by releasing adrenaline itself, if it gestates for longer time than what we saw in alien, then its likely to have arms grown, and in alien 3 had legs and small version of its older self.
2: The hosts dna and health.
3: the invorment the hosts lives in.

[Drukathi]

4. The director's whim, who doesn't care about the canon, the continuity.

[Nightmare Asylum]

4. The director's whim, who doesn't care about the canon, the continuity.

This is the one, and that's totally fine in my book. Jimbo wanted more explicit arms on his chestburster, Fincher wanted his "Bambi Burster" to be able to run immediately after birth and show off the animalistic traits right off the bat, and the traditional larva-like chestburster wouldn't really be able to pull off the Christ pose that Oram's chestburster needed to do in Covenant. Sure, you can concoct story reasons for each difference that make sense, but at the end of the day they're really just different creative choices.

[Nukiemorph]

In the commentary for Prometheus, Ridley acknowledged the size discrepancy between the jockey and the engineer. He said he felt it was more important to have an actor playing the engineer be physically on set with the other actors, rather than awkwardly green-screened in.

This is a good example of how Ridley focuses on making each individual movie the best it can be, even if it comes at the expense of canon and continuity.

It drives us fans nuts, but I'm sure a lot of creative types get it - (and us fans usually manage to fudge together an explanation anyway.)

Ridley clearly wanted that moment between David and the baby. He wanted to express the relationship by having it mimic David's pose. This scene wouldn't have played as well if it didn't have arms and just stood straight like a snarling boner.

[Drukathi]

just stood straight like a snarling boner.

Will see in Alien: Awakening.