This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Alien: Earth, now streaming on Hulu. In the early seasons of Fargo, Noah Hawley was careful to get only so close to the specifics of the Coen brothers’ film. Yes, Molly Solverson, the first season’s hero, was a polite female cop …
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Noah Hawley recently said of his plan for Alien: Earth, the first TV show based on the iconic science-fiction/action-horror film series, “Imagine if there were five movies about the White Walkers, and I went and made Game of Thrones.” Hawley is a creator who has never lacked confidence in his …
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When a director arrives at a filming location, they have a lot of important tasks before the real work can begin. Department heads to consult. Actors to be prep. Schedules to lock. When Noah Hawley got to Bangkok to direct the first episode of Alien: Earth, he immediately had to …
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“A haunted-house film set in a spaceship” — that’s how Ridley Scott‘s groundbreaking science-fiction/horror mash-up Alien was characterized when it was released in 1979. It’s not a bad description, actually. Then James Cameron came aboard for Aliens and upped the velocity factor, essentially turning the 1986 sequel into a roller …
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The Alien saga returns to its extraterrestrial roots with the franchise’s upcoming Alien: Romulus, a standalone installment hitting movie theaters this August. The latest chapter takes place between the events of the franchise’s first two installments — 1979’s Alien and 1986’s Aliens — and judging by the teaser released Wednesday, …
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