FX shows based on alien franchises will not rotate around Ripley

FX, the network behind the hit shows like American horror stories, will soon become home to the science fiction series based on alien hit film franchises. Even though it would be at least a few years before we saw the inaugural series, Alien Showrunner Noah Hawley had dropped some of the initial details that revealed what fans could expect. 

Hawley recently spoke with people at Vanity Fair, revealing that alien alien FX will not involve the iconic ripley character universe. During the interview, Hawley stressed, “This is not the story of Ripley,” noting that he did not want to “screw up” the storyline.

Instead, Hawley showed that TV shows would break from a typical film plot to open a little world. “What happens when you can’t hold it back?” He teases, notes that the topic of inequality will be the core aspect of the story he said. This topic will be explored through the stories of people sent to deal with aliens and people who send them into danger.

Hawley outlined this idea, which stated during the interview:

“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 […] So, it is the story of the people you send to do the dirty work.”

At this point, it looks like the Alien FX series will start taking pictures in the spring of 2022, which means we might not see it prime until the end of the earliest next year. The event was announced in December with rare details, including it would be arranged on earth.