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DId we know this was coming?
It has some promise, given that it has been endorsed by Ridley Scott (I assume he's an EP on it) and Fargo's Noah Hawley is the showrunner. Will be on FX and I assume will eventually go to Disney+ given the Fox links.
I liked this quote from Noah:
Also this on Ripley/Sigourney Weaver:
On a shift from working class people being the hunted/focus to the white collar scientists/corporations talked about but usually skimmed over in the films
Here for this!
It has some promise, given that it has been endorsed by Ridley Scott (I assume he's an EP on it) and Fargo's Noah Hawley is the showrunner. Will be on FX and I assume will eventually go to Disney+ given the Fox links.
I liked this quote from Noah:
What’s next for me, it looks like, is [an] Alien series for FX, taking on that franchise and those amazing films by Ridley Scott and James Cameron and David Fincher. Those are great monster movies, but they’re not just monster movies. They’re about humanity trapped between our primordial, parasitic past and our artificial intelligence future—and they’re both trying to kill us. Here you have human beings and they can’t go forward and they can’t go back. So I find that really interesting.
Also this on Ripley/Sigourney Weaver:
It’s not a Ripley story. She’s one of the great characters of all time, and I think the story has been told pretty perfectly, and I don’t want to mess with it. It’s a story that’s set on Earth also. The alien stories are always trapped… Trapped in a prison, trapped in a space ship. 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.
On a shift from working class people being the hunted/focus to the white collar scientists/corporations talked about but usually skimmed over in the films
On some level it’s also a story about inequality. You know, one of the things that I love about the first movie is how ’70s a movie it is, and how it’s really this blue collar space-trucker world in which Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton are basically Waiting for Godot. They’re like Samuel Beckett characters, ordered to go to a place by a faceless nameless corporation. The second movie is such an ’80s movie, but it’s still about grunts. Paul Reiser is middle management at best. So, it is the story of the people you send to do the dirty work. In mine, you’re also going to see the people who are sending them. So you will see what happens when the inequality we’re struggling with now isn’t resolved. If we as a society can’t figure out how to prop each other up and spread the wealth, then what’s going to happen to us? There’s that great Sigourney Weaver line to Paul Reiser where she says, “I don’t know which species is worse. At least they don’t fuck each other over for a percentage.”
Here for this!