The Alien Series From Noah Hawley That Could Have Been

An Alien series from Noah Hawley?

There have been a ridiculous number of canceled Alien projects over the decades. And it makes sense. It’s a big and beloved series with a lot of missteps scattered about (though many would argue the missteps outweigh the hits). Over the years, we’ve seen many projects rise and fall. one project we hard of around March of Last year, was an FX miniseries set in the Alien universe.

The series in question was pitched by Noah Hawley, who had produced Legion for the same network. Of course, by virtue of the fact that we still have no Alien TV show, you can infer that the deal never actually went through. But what could the show have been? Hawley opened up about it in a recent interview with the Observer.

“Alien is on some level the complete opposite of Stark Trek. It’s sort of about humanity at its worst,” he said. “There’s this moment in the second film when Sigourney says, ‘I don’t know which species is worse. At least they don’t screw each other over for a percentage.’ If you look at what Aliens tends to be, it’s usually a trapped story – trapped in a ship, trapped in a prison, etc. And because the Alien has this life cycle to it, where it goes from egg, to chestburster, to xenomorph, there becomes a certain routine to it.”

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He continued: “I thought it would be interesting if you could expand. If you’re going to make something for television, you’ve got 10 hours let’s say. Even if you have a lot of action, like two hours, then you’re still going to have eight hours left. So what is the show about? That’s what I tried to talk to them about. As I did with Legion, the exercise is: Let’s take the superhero stuff out of the show and see if it’s still a great show. What’s the show about? Let’s take the Alien out of the show. What’s the show about? What are the themes, who are the characters and what is the human drama? Then we drop the aliens back in and we go, ‘This is great. Not only is there great human drama, but there’s aliens!’”

Is it too late to get Noah Hawley on an Alien show? I’m not even kidding. Legion was a weird show, but a refreshing exercise in creativity. If Hawley were to just bring in an extra dose of humanity in those non-action hours, we could have a surprisingly human Alien tale. 

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SOURCE: Observer