Stepping aside briefly from the, ehm, discourse of the past week... one comment of Hawley's that I find to be quite intriguing is his statement that "They're about humanity trapped between our primordial, parasitic past and our artificial intelligence future—and they're both trying to kill us."
That sentence seems to shed some light on Hawley's perspective of the the grander mythos that the films play within, and it should be interesting seeing how he weaves within those broader strokes in telling his story.