Alien: This series announcement will reassure fans

Alien: This series announcement will reassure fans



Alien : a film and a series to relaunch the saga

The saga Alien he is not dead, far from it. If the last movie in the universe dates back to 2017 (Alien: Covenant), the machine will soon be relaunched with highly anticipated designs. There will be the new movie, Alien: Romulus, directed by Fede Álvarez and of which Ridely Scott speaks very highly. The feature film will be an opportunity to reunite with Cailee Spaeny, the actress of PriscillaWho it should mark the year 2024. But beyond this movie, it is a series in development.

Created by Noah Hawley (Legion, Fargo), the program is in production at FX/Hulu and should therefore land here on Disney+. It will be a prequel to the saga that will take place on Earth in the future. But while Ridley Scott has already returned to the origins of the universe with him Prometheus (2012), set 29 years before the first film Alien (1979), the question remains whether Noah Hawley will consider the last two works.

The series will skip Prometheus AND Covenant

I have to say it Prometheus AND Covenant are far from unanimous among fans. Particularly on what was said the creation of the xenomorph, which would come from the Engineers. The creator of the series Alien so he took a radical decision as he explained in an interview KCRW (through The Hollywood journalist). After speaking with Ridley Scott about this specific question (and many other topics), Noah Hawley preferred it does not take into account the last two films of the saga.

For me, and for many people, this “perfect life form”, as it was described in the first film, is the product of millions of years of evolution. This creature could exist in space for a million years. The idea that this is a bioweapon created half an hour ago is just less useful to me (plot-wise).

Alien: Covenant ©20th Century Studios
Alien: Covenant ©20th Century Studios

The creator also justified this decision in relation to technology depicted in filmsand the big difference between what the 1979 one shows, with its “retro-futuristic technology” Do “giant computer screens, weird keyboards“, and the latest works.

In the prequels, Ridley displayed technology thousands of years more advanced than that of Alien, which is supposed to be set later. There’s something about this that doesn’t make sense to me. I prefer the retro-futurism of the first two films. So this is the choice I made. There are no holograms. And this wonderful technology from the Apple Store is not accessible to me.

Series Alien it is still in production. We hope to see it hit the screens in 2025. The show will be hosted by Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant and Alex Lawther.

Source: Cine Serie

You may also like