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‘Alien: Earth’ Stays True To Intention Of The Franchise: Humanity Versus Technology
The post ‘Alien: Earth’ Stays True To Intention Of The Franchise: Humanity Versus Technology appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. FX’s Alien: Earth — Pictured: Sydney Chandler as Wendy. CR: Patrick Brown/FX Copyright 2025, FX. All Rights Reserved. “In the show, it’s can humanity itself survive? Which leads to the natural follow-up question — do we deserve to survive? Can we rise as a species?” This is Noah Hawley talking about the new series Alien: Earth. In the 8-episode sci-fi drama inspired by the film franchise, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this corporate era, cyborgs and synthetics exist alongside humans. Prodigy CEO changes the game when he unlocks a new technological advancement known as “hybrids.” The first hybrid prototype named “Wendy” marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. The series stars Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Babou Ceesay, and Samuel Blenkin. Hawley created Alien:Earth and serves as executive producer on the series. Given the reins of the franchise, Hawley explains that his creative process started with an examination of his personal situation. “I’m raising kids in this world in which the technology we’ve created, the jury’s out on whether that’s going to turn on us. When they asked me if I had any ideas for [this] , I thought, ‘well, that’s what [the original movie] Alien is about. It’s about primordial monsters of our past that are trying to kill [the main character played by Sigourney [Weaver].’ And then the A.I. future we realize is also trying to kill her. So humanity is trapped between the A.I. future and the monsters of the past. Once I started with this idea of bringing children into this story — the human minds transferred into synthetic bodies, — then the Peter Pan analogy came pretty quickly after that.” Going deeper, he says, “If my job is to render the emotional experience…
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FX’s Alien: Earth — Pictured: Sydney Chandler as Wendy. CR: Patrick Brown/FX Copyright 2025, FX. All Rights Reserved. “In the show, it’s can humanity itself survive? Which leads to the natural follow-up question — do we deserve to survive? Can we rise as a species?” This is Noah Hawley talking about the new series Alien: Earth. In the 8-episode sci-fi drama inspired by the film franchise, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this corporate era, cyborgs and synthetics exist alongside humans. Prodigy CEO changes the game when he unlocks a new technological advancement known as “hybrids.” The first hybrid prototype named “Wendy” marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. The series stars Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Babou Ceesay, and Samuel Blenkin. Hawley created Alien:Earth and serves as executive producer on the series. Given the reins of the franchise, Hawley explains that his creative process started with an examination of his personal situation. “I’m raising kids in this world in which the technology we’ve created, the jury’s out on whether that’s going to turn on us. When they asked me if I had any ideas for [this] , I thought, ‘well, that’s what [the original movie] Alien is about. It’s about primordial monsters of our past that are trying to kill [the main character played by Sigourney [Weaver].’ And then the A.I. future we realize is also trying to kill her. So humanity is trapped between the A.I. future and the monsters of the past. Once I started with this idea of bringing children into this story — the human minds transferred into synthetic bodies, — then the Peter Pan analogy came pretty quickly after that.” Going deeper, he says, “If my job is to render the emotional experience…
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