Sci-Fi Alien: Earth (Noah Hawley and Ridley Scott) | FX on HULU

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[TheVileOne]

I just hope that since this is set two years before Alien, it makes sense and they will find a good way to figure how how they contained this on Earth when they've already been there years before.

But like ultimately, either Prodigy City has to be wiped off the map without a trace, and no one can ever truly know what happened there, except maybe a couple of survivors who never come forward.

 

[Still Wynning]

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If there’s one thing I can say about this franchise, it’s that the marketing never, ever misses.

Seriously. There has never been a bad poster, even with the worst films.

 

[Luigi]

If there’s one thing I can say about this franchise, it’s that the marketing never, ever misses.

Seriously. There has never been a bad poster, even with the worst films.

Covenant poster is a thing of beauty.

 

[Still Wynning]

Covenant poster is a thing of beauty.

Both of them are.



The teaser poster is great in it’s simplicity, with the Xenomorph head slightly emerged from the shadows looking straight at you and and just the word “Run.” It’s so effective, it actually got me hyped for the film. And then reviews came out, and then not so much. But, for that one moment, I was pretty excited.

They’re also all thematically consistent. Alien has our characters trapped on a ship with this dangerous entity? Glowing green light emerging from a cracked egg over a weird grid like landscape vanishing into darkness. Aliens leans into the action, has space marines and Ripley protecting a young girl? Ripley holding Newt and a gun in a farm of Xenomorph eggs. Prometheus dealing with the nature of existence and creation? Character standing in front of and looking up at a gigantic, partially illuminated, ancient carved head of an Engineer. And so on and so forth.

 

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[Still Wynning]

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Getting big Roy Batty vibes from Timothy Olyphant’s character. Considering Alien and Blade Runner we’re both directed by Ridley Scott, probably intentional.

 

[Lily Adler]

If AVP were canon, this would take the wind out of this premise sails.

 

[TheVileOne]

If AVP were canon, this would take the wind out of this premise sails.

I mean Prometheus and Covenant are canon...and they...say that a Weyland-Yutani robot engineered the Xenomorphs.

 

[SwordOfMorning]

I’m ultimately unconcerned with questions of canon in Alien simply because nothing counts to me but the original. I’m a staunch defender of Scott’s prequels, for all their sins, but it’s not like I watch the original and think about how the space jockey is a Large Adult Space Son. I don’t think about any of the biological details added by Cameron either.

Whether this lines up coherently or not simply isn’t important, imo.

 

[Zantera]

This show could end up being amazing and this nitpick is not going to ruin my enjoyment of it, but I just like the idea of the Xenomorph being this mysterious species that's never been encountered before the first Alien. I like the idea that the company just has this general rule "if you encounter an alien species you bring a sample" and them having no idea about the specifics of the species themselves.

If Alien Earth turns out amazing I can live with this nitpick and I'm still very hyped for the show. It's just anything they decide to place before or around the time of those original movies does have an impact on the larger story/universe.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

Honestly, humans encountering a Xeno before Alien makes a few things make more sense in the original.

 

[squeekness]

I'm just ready to watch this already. I don't like waiting.

 

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Why Alien: Earth Broke the Rules of the Original Movies

Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley explains why the franchise's first live-action series takes place on our planet, instead of space.

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Alien Earth Creator Already Knows How It Ends (Even if It Takes 5 Seasons)

Showrunner Noah Hawley talks about the long-term plan for Alien: Earth and how he intends to keep the story going for multiple seasons.

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