The much anticipated Alien series in the works at FX is set to start filming this year in Thailand, and showrunner Noah Hawley, who has worked on other FX shows such as Legion and Fargo, has plans for the series to go beyond one season.
In a recent interview with Collider, Hawley shared that FX wanted his Alien prequel, which takes place on Earth at the same time as the events in Prometheus, to be a show with multiple seasons rather than a limited series stint. The network’s desire aligned with Hawley’s, who said that his idea for Alien had a three-part structure.
“I knew that [FX’s] desire was for a recurring series, not a limited series [for Alien], and I had an idea that I was excited about, that I could see the escalation of it from one year to another,” Hawley said. “That’s where we ended up not pitching them having a bible or pitching them blow-by-blow, but saying, ‘Big picture: this is the first movement, this is the second movement, and we’re ultimately going here.’”
How many seasons Hawley has in mind isn’t clear from this statement, though the three movements he describes suggest at least three seasons. It also means that the writer-director has a clear end in mind for the show.
We still don’t have a firm release date for the long-gestating series, though we do know that Timothy Olphant has been tapped to star along with Sydney Chandler, Essie Davis, and Alex Lawther. With production officially underway, however, there’s a good chance we’ll see the Alien series on FX sometime in early 2025.
