Alien Covenant Lets You Burst Out of a Human Host.The second movie is such an ’80s movie, but it’s still about grunts.” They’re like Samuel Beckett characters, ordered to go to a place by a faceless nameless corporation. “You know, one of the things that I love about the first movie is how ’70s a movie it is, and how it’s really this blue collar space-trucker world in which Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton are basically Waiting for Godot. “On some level it’s also a story about inequality,” Hawley said in that same conversation. Discussing his inspiration for where to take the franchise, Hawley points to the series’ long engagement with working class characters, from interstellar merchants to Marines on assignment. With an Earth setting comes Earth problems-namely, income inequality. I thought it would be interesting to open it up a little bit so that the stakes of ‘What happens if you can’t contain it?’ are more immediate.” “Trapped in a prison, trapped in a spaceship. “The Alien stories are always trapped,” Hawley told Vanity Fair. Hawley’s Alien will blast out of the airlock with one huge departure from what fans of the franchise know and love: the story will be set on Earth. Ewan McGregor Plays 2 Roles in 'Fargo' Season 3.Read on for the full rundown of what to expect. And now, new details are emerging about how the series will square up with canon. In an interview with Esquire, Hawley teases an interpretation that blends the franchise’s classic creature feature structure with a modern parable about corporate greed. I think he’s meeting with his production designer in Austin this weekend, gearing up for production this year after he completes the fifth season of Fargo." FX chief John Landgraf said during the Television Critics Association press tour, "Noah is currently in production on the fifth season of Fargo, but he’s in active preproduction on Alien he’s written scripts. The show is still in the early stages of development, but after months with no news, there's finally some hope on the horizon. Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley is developing an Alien television series for FX, meaning that the Xenomorph will be back to inspire fright and disgust once again-this time in weekly installments. So if you thought 2017’s Alien: Covenantwas the last we’d see of this pesky extraterrestrial, we have some good, if inevitable, news. You can blast it out of an airlock or light it up with a flamethrower, but try as you might, you can’t keep a good alien down. If there’s one thing you can count on in the Alien extended universe, it’s this everlasting truth: the Xenomorph always comes back.
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