Noah Hawley's Alien Show Plans to Keep Things Simple

For the last few years now, all we’ve really known of Noah Hawley’s upcoming Alien show is exactly that, and that it’ll be more about the corporate side of the horror franchise. As a prequel, it’s got its work cut out for it, since it has to explain things, an issue the series has previously run into before with Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.

On a recent interview with KCRW’s The Business, Hawley was asked about if he’d be using any elements from those two specific films. Both prequels (which are closer to the franchise timeline of the show than the first Alien) revealed the Xenomorphs were created as a violent bioweapon by a race of people known as the Engineers. In referencing how the first Alien called the Xenomorph a “perfect life form,” Hawley indicated the Engineers would have no place in his show. To him, what made the Alien so scary to begin with was the idea of it existing for millions of years and naturally evolving to its current form, a read he wants to stick with. If that sounds like him spiting franchise director Ridley Scott, that doesn’t appear to be the case—Hawley revealed he and Scott spent time talking about “many, many elements” of the show to figure how everything could fit together.

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