- ALIEN: EarthThe creative team has given its opinion about why it has taken so long in a Foreign TV series to do
- They always imagined him as a program instead of a movie.
- All other live actions Foreign The project for the big screen has been carried out
ALIEN: EarthThe creative team has opened about the decision to tell its story on the small screen.
So far, each project established in the Foreign Universe has been a movie. In fact, since the original 1979, starring Weaver, starring the Pseudo-Second of 2024 Alien: RomulusThe various stories of the science fiction franchise have been counted in cinematographic format.
That has changed with original FX TV in ALIEN: Earthwhich will be issued in Hulu (USA) and Disney+ (internationally). Created by FX Noah Hawley’s frequent collaborator, who also developed Fargo and Legion For the US television network, Land Break the almost 50 years cycle of Foreign stories that are thrown exclusively in cinemas.
Taking the property led by Xenomorph to the small screen would not have been possible until a few years ago. Many of the best transmission services in the world, including Disney+, did not exist. In addition, the production budgets for television programs had been left behind their silver screen counterparts for decades. However, a maritime change caused to a large extent by the emergence of the transmission industry has remodeled the landscape and has led to the ropes of the bag that TV executives, thus allowing creators to make programs with budgets similar to those of their movie brothers.
It is the end of such financial restrictions that allowed Hawley, producer David W. Zucker and the rest of ALIEN: EarthThe cast and the team to prepare a series of eight parts with a range to rival any of the previous projects of the franchise. However, speaking with me before the launch of the program, Hawley and Zucker revealed that there are other reasons why a Foreign The television program has not been tried before, and what made them establish in counting LandThe history of television through television media.
“A two hours Foreign The film is a survival story, right? “Hawley said.” Apart from how expensive it would be, the obstacle of bringing the franchise to television is ‘Well, what other story could we tell?’
“He [an Alien film] These are monsters and people who run for their lives, “Hawley continued.” That is not a television program with any power of permanence. Part of the reason why [Alien: Earth] It worked because IP use [intellectual property] As a starting point to explore my own topics and problems, and build a story within the Foreign world. They are challenges with the scale of this show, balancing drama, horror and action, etc., but I think we achieve all that. “
“The truth is that, corporately, the franchise has been owned by the film division [20th Century Studios]”Zucker added.” It only became possible when they gave us access to it [the Alien franchise] And then he tried to find a place, like FX, which would support this type of vision. Fortunately, the long relationship they have with Noah, that has become a pairing of dreams for us and is the only conceivable way that this could have worked. “
ALIEN: Earth It is launched with a two -episodes premiere on August 12 (North America and South) and August 13 (anywhere else). Read my dedicated guide to ALIEN: Earthas well as me ALIEN: Earth Review, before it arrives.
