By “Fargo” series creator Noah Hawley’s new “Alien” TV series for FX has resumed production in Thailand and Hawley, out talking up the “Fargo” finale recently, says this isn’t a one-and-done and the plan is for multiple seasons.
Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Kit Young, David Rysdahl, Adarsh Gourav and Sydney Chandler are amongst the stars of the series which Hawley recently revealed will essentialy ignore “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant” – making it once again a product of millions of years of evolution.
He’s also going back to the retro-futuristic grungy, utilitarian aesthetics of the original Scott and Cameron films. Now in a new chat with Collider, he says he went in with a clear structure and picture of how the series would begin and eventually end.
Referring back to his “Legion” series for comparison, he says:
“I think that endings are what gives a story meaning, and so you should never start a story without some sense of where it’s going because then you can really build that meaning into it.
With Legion, I had what felt like a three-act structure to it that I didn’t know if that would be three seasons or five seasons, or whatever it was, but I sort of knew what a beginning, middle, and end was.
And here, similarly, I knew that their desire was for a recurring series, not a limited series, and I had an idea that I was excited about, that I could see the escalation of it from one year to another.
That’s where we ended up not pitching them having a bible or pitching them blow-by-blow, but saying, ‘Big picture: this is the first movement, this is the second movement, and we’re ultimately going here.’”
He adds that he’s earned the trust of FX who were happy for him to not stretch it out too long:
“Obviously, they trust me after all these years, and the writing was on the page for the first year. So, in success, you tell the story and tell the story until the story is done. They’re very good at that at FX, of not wanting you to milk something that feels like it’s over…It’s just better if the story itself can drive how long it is. We want quality, not quantity.”
The project is separate from the Fede Alvarez-directed “Alien: Romulus” film in the works at 20th Century Studios. That film comes first and will release in August 14th next year.
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