Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley continues talk about his upcoming series and now he is teasing a “chilling” new xenomorph breed.
In the series, “When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.”
While speaking to Deadline at the Emmy Awards, Hawley offered insight on the xenomophs in the series saying: “There’s something about seeing a Xenomorph in the wilds of Earth with your own eyes.
“That is truly chilling to think of it moving here among us, and so I can’t tell you under what circumstances you’ll see that, but you’ll see it — and you’re going to lock your door that night.
“What was really fun for me was to really engage with the creature, bring some of my own thoughts to the design while not touching the silhouette, because that’s sacrosanct.”
He then talked about the look of the creature, saying: “But some of the elements as we know, whatever the host is, informs what the final creature is. I just wanted to play around a little bit to make it as scary as it should be.”
It will be really interesting to see what Hawlay has planned for some of these xenomorph alien creatures. Hawley’s comments suggest that we will see a Face-hugger attach itself to a non-human host.
This isn’t the first time that would happen as Alien 3 introduced the “dog-buster”.
The story for the series is set three decades before the events of Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien and a few years before Prometheus. The series will find the characters “caught in a conflict with the beginning of artificial intelligence and the competition among developers and users.”
Hawley previously said of the story: “It’s set on Earth of the future. At this moment, I describe that as Edison versus Westinghouse versus Tesla. Someone’s going to monopolize electricity. We just don’t know which one it is.”
He continued: “In the movies, we have this Weyland-Yutani Corporation, which is clearly also developing artificial intelligence-but what if there are other companies trying to look at immortality in a different way, with cyborg enhancements or transhuman downloads? Which of those technologies is going to win?”
This series will blend “both the timeless horror of the first Alien film with the non-stop action of the second, it’s going to be a scary thrill ride that will blow people back in their seats.“
Hawley also said: “It’s about how we’re trapped between the primordial past and the artificial intelligence of our future, where both [are] trying to kill us.
“It’s set on Earth of the future. At this moment, I describe that as Edison versus Westinghouse versus Tesla. Someone’s going to monopolize electricity. We just don’t know which one it is.”
He went on to share: “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.”
The show also stars Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World) as the male lead, a soldier named CJ, with Samuel Blenkin (Black Mirror) as another main character named Boy Kavalier, a CEO. Additional cast members include Essie Davis (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) as Dame Silvia, Timothy Olyphant, and Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger) as Slightly.
