We now know the identify of FX’s upcoming Alien sequence, and it alludes to the prequel’s extra…. grounded setting.
FX boss John Landgraf and the sequence’ showrunner, Noah Hawley, revealed in an interview with Variety at present that it will be titled Alien: Earth. Landgraf additionally stated that he is “bullish” on Alien: Earth and, if profitable, he’d need Hawley to “deal with at the least writing two seasons of it earlier than returning to a attainable sixth season of Fargo.”
Hawley, in the meantime, revealed that the primary season simply wrapped manufacturing, and so they’re now shifting on to visible results.
“It’s a really large present. It’s good to have a while with it,” he informed Variety. “The first yr of something, you wish to really feel such as you’re not up towards the wall when it comes to time. I’ve seen 4 of the eight hours of director cuts and engaged within the strategy of determining, cinematically, what it needs to be. It’s one in every of my favourite elements of of constructing a present.”
It’s the primary strong replace we have gotten on the Alien TV sequence in fairly a while. The present was first introduced all the best way again in 2020, and we have slowly discovered increasingly more about it since then. We already knew, because the present’s new title suggests, that it will be set on Earth, and that it’ll happen just a few years earlier than Prometheus (2093) and round 30 years earlier than Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror Alien.
It’s additionally been filling out its solid, together with Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Samuel Blenkin, Essie Davis, Adarsh Gourav, and extra.
We nonetheless do not have a launch date, however Hawley’s replace is an encouraging one. In the meantime, Alien: Romulus, the newest within the sequence on the large display, will debut on August 16, and reveal extra at its San Diego Comic-Con panel subsequent week.
Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing leisure reporting. When she’s not writing or enhancing, yow will discover her studying fantasy novels or taking part in Dungeons & Dragons.
