leading from
a) Embracing the universe of Alien
Noah had talked with Ridley about where to go with Alien and the many elements of the the TV show that Noah was creating
He had decided that the alien creature of the series referred to as a "perfect life form" was the product of millions of years of evolution and this thing may have existed for million yeas out there in space.
If
one took the movie Alien: Covenant to be the starting poin of the alien
creature's existence, he thought that its creation then by David the
android to be far too recent for him and so he found that idea didn't
have any use for him.
He made the statement that Ridley made the technology thousands of years more advanced than the technology of Alien
Alien's
Nostromo sets had been designed at the time to be rough prediction of
where NASA technology was going one hundred years into the future using
the materials that they had could get there hands on from the then today
of 1970s. Dan O'Bannon and Ron Cobb were using all of their scientific
inventiveness to advise on how everything seem as real as possible.
b) Alien and Aliens "Retrofuturim"
Noah
would see the Alien and Aliens' sets as retrofuturism with giant
computer monitors with weird keyboad and preferred this retrofuturism.
In hindsight perhaps it might seem all retrofuturistic since there sets
were made from a materials existing in the laer 1970s. then of course
Ridley Scott used the same style of thinking for the sets and visible
technology of Alien in the film Blade Runner released in 1982, which was
designed to look predict the future 40 years ahead but would be often
be labeled as "retrofuturistic" anyway.
Where Aliens stands in
terms of retrofuturism is another thing because it played with the idea
of the past of Vietnam and projected that into the distant future se
over five decades after Alien
With Prometheus and Alien:
Covenant, Noah would imagine that the technology there was thousands of
years more advanced than the technology seen in Alien and Aliens, and it
didn't compute for him.
c) A set like the Nostromo
He
was able to walk onto a certain set in the production and it seemed to
raise the hair on the back on his neck in a good way feeling as if he
was on the Nostromo from the movie Alien, with the set inspired by the
design, and he liked to think that he was in the movie.”
d) A show without holograms
There would be no holograms or the convenience of what he would perceive as "that beautiful Apple store" technology seen in Prometheus and Alien Covenant.
e) Ridley's involvement
With
Scott Free producing the Alien series, and Ridley making two or three
movies a year, he would allow Noah to pick his bain about all of his
thoughs, process, decisions, and things that he had learnt. He would try
to keep Ridley in the loop, sending him materal so that Ridley could
feel respected and included while still doing his own thing.
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Eric Deggans: So,
as a bona fide scifi nerd or a blurred if you will, black nerd, I've
got to ask you about Alien, man. What can you tell us about the TV
series that you're crafting that you were to shoot a fair amount of
before you had to stop in August. Ah, what can you tell us about this
show man. Us Alien fans are chomping it a bit. we really are
Noah Hawley: You
know, I think we talked earlier what I think about I know I have enough
for a Fargo story, you know there have to be enough elements to it, and
if it were just a monster movie, I don't think there would be enough
there, but we're talking about one of the great monsters of all time.
but when you think about making 20, 30, 40 hours of something, when you
think of 60% of the best horror action around 40 % of whatever we're
talking about , what's the show about, you know. radically
character-wise, it has to exist as a drama outside of those other
elements, so that was the challenge for me, you know and I think if I
have a skill at this niche that I've carved for myself imagining great
films in long form, a sort of understanding how the movie made me feel
and how to create that feeling in others while telling a totally
different story, right and the thing that with Alien is that it's not
just a great monster movie, a story of humanity trapped between its
parasitic past and the idea of the future and they're both trying to
kill us, and so there's nowhere to go and so it's really a story of does
humanity deserve to survive, you know, does humanity's arrogance think
we're no longer food and its arrogance these AI beings who we thnk will
do what we tell them but might ultimately lose their minds. You know, is
there a way out? There’s a moment in the second movie where Sigourney
says “I don’t know which species is worse, but at least they don’t screw each other over for a percentage.”
You know, I think there’s something really intriguing about that idea
for me, you know, which is about an exploration of humanity in all its
goods and evils and that trying to recreate for an audience those
feelings that you had in watching those two films isn’t easy in a
franchise that had four subsequent films and, and another film coming
out soon, but I think that I have some tricks up my sleeve
Eric Deggans: So,
will this connect at all to the recent films that we saw, you know,
Ridley Scott and the folks who worked on the I think last two alien
movies provided a lot of back story about how the alien got created, and
who was sitting in that chair in the very first movie, erm. Are you
paying any attention to that or for you does that thought exist?
Noah Hawley: You know, I think, and Ridley and I have talked about this — and many, many elements of the
show,” You know, I think For me, and for a lot of people, this ‘perfect life
form’ — as it was described in the first film — is the product of
millions of years of evolution that created this creature that may have
existed for a million years out there in space. you know, and the idea that, on some
level, it was a bioweapon created half an hour ago, that’s just
inherently less useful to me you know what I mean. And in terms of the mythology, what’s
scary about this monster, is that when you look at those first two
movies, you have this retro-futuristic technology. You have giant
computer monitors, these weird keyboards, you know you're asking me You have to make a choice. Am
I doing that? Because in the prequels, Ridley made the technology
thousands of years more advanced than the technology of Alien,
which is supposed to take place in those movies’ future. There’s
something about that that doesn’t really compute for me. I prefer the
retro-futurism of the first two films. And so that’s the choice I’ve
made to embrace that— there’s no holograms. The convenience of that beautiful Apple
store technology is not available to me.” (https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/noah-hawley-alien-series-prometheus-backstory-not-useful-1235871454/)
- Noah Hawley: I think that's a hard one just because we had the strike, so we're
figuring that out. But it's thrilling to get behind the camera again,
and to get behind the camera on this and to do something that's much bigger and in the science fiction genre, playing with the elements that we all know from Alien. It's really thrilling." (collider https://collider.com/alien-series-multiple-seasons/, January 2024)
- The Wrap:"It’s very exciting that I get this opportunity, with films like ‘Fargo’
or ‘Alien,’ to live within the world that was created by these
directors and storytellers. It raises the hair on the back of your neck
in a good way to walk onto a set where you feel like you’re on the
‘Nostromo,’” Hawley said before clarifying that his series does not
actually take place on the “USCSS Nostromo” but on a set that was
inspired by the design of the original film. “You’re like, ‘Oh my god,
I’m in the movie.’” https://www.thewrap.com/alien-noah-hawley-series-premiere-window-2025-fx/
Hollywood Reporter: What is Ridley Scott’s involvement in the TV show? Having directed the film, is he involved?
Noah Hawley: I mean, are the Coens involved in Fargo? Let’s
just say, I’ve probably had more conversations with Ridley than I’ve
had with Joel and Ethan. Scott Free [Productions] is producing Alien
and Ridley is making two or three movies a year is basically how that’s
working. I mean, Ridley has been an amazing collaborator to the degree
that I can pick his brain about all of his thoughts, processes,
decisions and the things that he’s learned. And I try to keep him [in
the loop] and send him material so that he feels respected and included.
But also, he’s doing his thing. (
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/noah-hawley-fargo-alien-star-trek-1235646824
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