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Alien: Earth Gave Franchise Fans an Unexpectioned Treat with Its Fifth Episode: A mini-Alien MOVIE THAT FEELS The FX Drama Drama took Ridley Scott’s 1979 Original Film and Re-Imagines ITS Core Elements As a Unique One-Hour Story.
Aptly Titled “In Space, No One …” CAUSED ITS DANGORUS CREATES TO ESCAPE AND THE SHIP TO CRASH INTO Earth.
With the Ship’s Interior Sets as a near replica of thoss from the first film’s Ship, Nostromo, The Action Played Like An Alternate Universe Version of the Decades-Eold Film. The Sequance Also Contained a twist that hasDed Many of the audience’s assumptions about the previous episodes and was was in the antics of a Certain billionaire.
“This Allowed Me – In the Middle of Trying to Innovate What[The[theAlien Franchise Could Be as A Series]- To ALSO PICK UP The Gauntlet for Classic Alien to say, ‘We Could do classic Alien and it it as well as anyone, ” Hawley said. “But What’s Interesting to Me at the Same Time Is Adding All These NEW ELEments, and Putting The Creatures in this Theimatic Context. I The Number of Elements at Play that Make It Fun to Me. It’s Like by the Time The Xenomorph Enters the Story, You’re Six Tragedies Deep with TheSe Other Creatures. THEN The Xenomorph Arrives and It Just Escalates. ”
Hawley Continueded, “WHEN YOU THINK About the Last 10 Minutes of James Cameron’s Movie[[Aliens]there’s no Other Word for Itan ‘Thrilling.’ And my hope was that by putting the tese elements together and with all these creatures – the sabotage and getting to the bridge and ther Way that i THINK ENDS UP Feeling A Little Crazy. You leave the predictable Alien World and are Like, ‘I do not KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT.’ ”
One Key Momenta Is The Revelation That Boy Kavalier (Samuel Benkin) Was Behind the Sabotage of the Maginot in an Effort to Get the Ship to Crash Into His Territory. IT’s a perhaps Controversial Twist and I Suggest to Hawley that-for a famd smartest-geek-alive Genius-this sems like a Really Dumb Plan that Should Never Never Have Worked. But It Turns Out That Plan’s Reckless Idiocy Was Kind of the Point.
“I don’t look at our tech billionaires and THINK THESE guys are orchestrating some master Plan,” Hawley replies. “I THINK YOU HAVE A LOT OF ADHD Billionaires with Impulse Control Issues. And We Always Look to Impose a Certain Logic on Our Fiction That Doesn’Te. And as the SHOWS OUT IN THE SHEASON, we find that boy Genius is not a terribly thoroughfulful and calculating guy. SO HEKS FAILURE IS IMPOSSIBLE.
Hawley then Suggested the Characterization is a comment on Elon Musk (He Doesn’t Say The Billionaire’s Name, But His Description Sems to Clearly Point to the Tesla/The Boring/The Bor. “IT’s A Statement, On Some Level, About the Hubris We’re Seeing AROUND US BY PEOPLE WHO WHO SAME TIME WHEN NONE OF THEM ARE NECESARY BEING DONE WELL.
Throughout the episode, The Viewer Is Also Wondering the Deal WitH WitH One Character in Particular: Andy Yu’s Crew Member Teng, Who Spied on a Fellow Crew Member in Her Slee. Out by the Xenomorph. So was he just a creepy human thing?
“IT’s Always Open to Interpretation, and that’s the Fun of that Franchise – Who is an Android and Who Isn’t?” Hawley Said. “AT A CERTAIN Point, You Start to Question Everybody. But Yeah, For ME, He’s A Creepy Dude.”
Hawley Aded that The Show’s Casting Drew from His Showrunning Experiences On Fargo.
“WHEN I REALIZED THAT I WANTED TO DO FLASHBACK EPISODE, SELFISHLY I WAS LIKE, ‘WELL, I HAVE TO [direct] that one; I don’t want to hand that one off, ” ‘hawley said. “Part of that was the Casting. [The security officer cyborg Morrow, played by Babou Ceesay] Obviously Carries the Show, But You Need That Cast to Be Memorable Instantly. A Lot of It For Me Was Being Over in Thailand Like, ‘Well, Who Can I Call That Will Come?’ SO and Called Richa Moorjani. I Called Karen Aldridge from Season Four Of Fargo. I Called Andy Yu from Season Three of Fargo. And the Great Michael Smiley and So Many Great UK Actors. They All Pop and Resonate. SO MUCH OF WHAT I DO IN THESE BIG ENSEMBLE SHOWS IS Constantly Building New Worlds and You Can ‘Really Assign that to Another Director. The Specification of It, I Felt Like and Need to DO. ”
Alien: Earth Releases New Episodes Tuesdays at 8 pm et and 5 pm pt on fx and hulu.