Noah Hawley Gives a Surprise Twist to Ridley Scott’s Franchise with Prequel Series ‘Alien: Earth’ — Watch Trailer | rssama.com

Noah Hawley is trading “Fargo” for a much retired of this world location: space. Hawley is nan showrunner for “Alien” franchise prequel bid “Alien: Earth,” which is group successful 2120. The eight-episode bid takes spot anterior to nan events of Ridley Scott’s “Alien.” Sydney Chandler leads nan show, on pinch Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Adarsh Gourav, Essie Davis, Kit Young, and Samuel Blenkin.

The charismatic synopsis reads: “When nan mysterious heavy abstraction investigation alloy USCSS Maginot crash-lands connected Earth, Wendy (Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful find that puts them face-to-face pinch nan planet’s top threat. In the twelvemonth 2120, nan Earth is governed by 5 corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic, and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, cyborgs (humans pinch some biologic and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots pinch artificial intelligence) beryllium alongside humans. But nan crippled is changed erstwhile nan wunderkind Founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a caller technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused pinch quality consciousness). The first hybrid prototype named Wendy marks a caller dawn successful nan title for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides into Prodigy City, Wendy and nan different hybrids brushwood mysterious life forms much terrifying than anyone could person ever imagined.”

FX’s “Alien: Earth” was created for tv and executive produced by Hawley. This is nan first TV loop of nan long-running sci-fi franchise, which spans 9 films (the astir caller of which is Fede Alvarez’s “Alien: Romulus”).

Hawley told IndieWire that he said to auteur Scott while making “Alien: Earth.” Scott’s Scott Free banner produces nan bid arsenic well.

“Ridley is nan man. He’s nan creator of this franchise, he’s travel backmost to it later successful his career,” Hawley said. “But you know, for illustration nan Coen brothers [with ‘Fargo’], he was very respectful of nan truth that I look to cognize what I’m doing, and I person my ain return connected it. That’s nan point pinch these films, is that they return connected a life of their own. And astatine a definite constituent you person to return a measurement backmost and fto them beryllium what they want to be.”

Hawley added of nan caller “Alien” film, “I thought ‘Romulus’ was great. It’s a thrill ride. These movies are ever endurance stories. And nan situation successful tv is, that’s awesome for 2 hours, but for 20 aliases 30 aliases 50 hours, endurance isn’t enough. You request to show a larger communicative that engages you pinch characters and emotions and is not conscionable astir ‘Who is nan past 1 standing?’”

“Alien: Earth” premieres August 12 connected FX and Hulu. Check retired nan trailer below.