There is new news for the "Alien" live-action series. Series operator and director Noah Hawley participated in a screening of the Austin Film Society last month and was invited to speak before the screening about the upcoming live-action series of Alien. There are a few points -
1. The series wants to re-mystify the alien. His 15-year-old daughter watched Alien 1 and said it was very slow-paced, saying that you would be blown away by the unpredictable thriller when you first watched Alien 1, but after 6 movies, you may feel that it is no longer special. So he wanted to re-engrave the series, the creatures, and the story itself, that would be acceptable to modern audiences and that young audiences like his daughter would not find the pace slow.
2. The episodes are 8 hours (that is, 8 episodes). Noah Hawley said he would prefer to think of the series as a movie.
3, he has a lot of communication with Ridley Scott, he admires Mr. Ray very much, saying that Mr. Ray is 86 years old, but very diligent, just finished filming "Napoleon", and will soon shoot a pilot episode of a series, and then will be invested in the filming of "Gladiator 2".
4. The series will start filming in the summer. This was planned last month when Hollywood screenwriters had not yet gone on strike, and the shooting date given on the film and television production website a few days ago was September, and I don't know if it was postponed because of the impact of the screenwriters' strike.
5. The series will be broadcast at the end of 2024.
6. This is currently the plan for the first season, suggesting that there may be a second season.
Much of the rest of the series has been exposed, the background of the series is the earth, the main story line revolves around the pursuit of immortality by humans, and there will be a "race for immortality" by large companies to study immortality. Wieland Yutani, the classic company of the "Alien" series, is no longer the main villain company, one of its competitors, Baizhide Company, will be the center of the series, according to the concept art, Wieland Yutani Company will fall to the city of Baizhide Company, and then Baizhide Company will find the alien in it.
The protagonist of the story will be a cyborg, but her heart will be the consciousness of a human little girl. The heroine has also been officially announced as actress Sidney Chandler not long ago.
This is the first live-action series in the Alien series, and we look forward to a smooth start in filming.