Alien: Earth FX’s Next Shōgun? |
In scale, scope, and ambition, Noah Hawley’s take on the Alien franchise seems like FX’s next great hope. Hawley lays out the highly anticipated new series, which premieres August 12—in an extended, exclusive conversation with Anthony Breznican. Hawley explains all of this universe’s key players—from its greedy corporate-overlord antagonists to its unlikely hero, a terminally ill child whose consciousness is uploaded into a robotic body made to look like an adult human. She’s played in her final form by Sydney Chandler, the 29-year-old daughter of actor Kyle Chandler. Why focus an entire narrative on these hybrid figures, nicknamed the Lost Boys? “I thought it was interesting to bring these very clear-minded children into a complex moral universe that’s basically built around the sins of capitalism, and this trillionaire who’s basically still a child himself,” says Hawley. “There’s a nobility to children, and especially children who have been sick, and a wisdom and a sense of being beyond their years.”
Elsewhere in HWD, Regina Kim gets to the bottom of Squid Game’s series finale with creator Hwang Dong-hyuk; Derek Lawrence wonders who, really, is clamoring for the late Paul Walker to return, somehow, in another Fast & Furious movie; Richard Lawson gives a thumbs-down to the newest Jurassic World movie; and Chris Murphy catalogues the celebrities who are publicly not on board with Jeff Bezos’s opulent wedding. |
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