The highly anticipated “Alien” TV series from “Fargo” showrunner Noah Hawley has wrapped production on the first season with plans to release the show in 2025….
As Fede Alvarez’s “Alien: Romulus” draws near to a release date in August, the new “Alien” TV series headed to FX from “Fargo” showrunner Noah Hawley is one step closer to completion.
On Wednesday, Hawley confirmed that filming on the first season of the show has wrapped and he revealed the title of the series is set as “Alien: Earth.” Details about the series remain somewhat scarce but the show takes place on Earth at a time prior to Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic “Alien.”
“We are wrapped — just wrapped,” Hawley told The Hollywood Reporter. “I’m in post, editing away, and obviously there’s a large visual effects component that takes time. But I couldn’t be happier with the show we shot.
“If people wanted a television series based on the world of Alien, I think I’m gonna give them something special.”
Hawley had previously teased that the new “Alien: Earth” series takes place near the turn of the 21st century with themes about humanity being “trapped between its primordial parasitic past and its AI future, and they’re both trying to kill us.”
Based on the timeline and the setting, it seems unlikely that the infamous Xenomorphs make an appearance, although anything seems possible. Hawley has taken great care of the “Fargo” franchise after taking the film from the Coen brothers and transforming it into an Emmy winning show that’s now gone on for five seasons.
He also made a criminally underrated Marvel series titled “Legion” that starred Dan Stevens in the lead role as the troubled son of X-Men founder Charles Xavier.
Now he’s tackling the “Alien” universe with FX president John Landgraf already hinting at multiple seasons after talking to Hawley about his plans for the show.
“We’re pretty bullish on ‘Alien: Earth’ and we’ve told him that assuming, as we hope, ‘Alien: Earth’ is a returning television series, we want him to focus on on at least writing two seasons of it before returning to a possible sixth season of ‘Fargo,’” Landgraf told Variety.
With production wrapped on “Alien: Earth,” Hawley now goes into the long process of editing and post production to add effects, sound and other bits and pieces to perfect the eight episode first season.
There’s no exact timeline when “Alien: Earth” will debut but the show is expected to premiere on FX sometime in 2025 with streaming on Hulu.
“Alien: Earth” stars Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, David Rysdahl, Samuel Blenkin, Adarsh Gourav, Babou Ceesay, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Diêm Camille and Adrian Edmondson.
