We
could know that there was a Weyland-Yutani corporation, that there are
these creatures that we know of as the alien, and well, we might ask
about whether humanity has spread through the universe and the series
might provide some answers.
b) Words on how humanity is trapped
Noah's
words turned to how the Alien movies were about humanity trapped
between our primeordial, parasitic past and out artificial intelligence
future, and they're both trying to kill us as the human race.
The human beings can't go forwards and they can't go back.
c) Nothing to do with Ripley
If
it should have something to do with the character Ripley, Noah made it
clear that here it would have nothing to do with the character.
He
had the need to say that She was one of the great characters of all
time, and that her story has been told pretty perfectly, so he didn't
want to mess with it.
Having said that, it was in a podcast from
the 14th of June that he revealed have payed money to see Neil
Blomkamp's Alien V that so far appeared to change the story of Ripley
after Aliens
He has written a could of scripts so far and he was planning to make them in the coming spring.
He
had seen how illuminating it was to see the entire film industry take a
year off and they're not trying to jam two years of production into one
year, and this meant that it was hard to plan something that could be
made within the next six months.
At this point everyone was making up for lost time and so he would let the bubble that had developed burst a little.
d) Aliens on the loose
Now he talked about how it would be a story set on Earth.
As he mentioned before, usually the Alien stories were
always as it were trapped, as in Alien trapped on a spaceship, or in a prison.
He thought that it would be
interesting to open the universe of Alien up a little bit so that the
stakes of “What happens if you can’t contain it?” are more immediate.
e) A story about inequality
On some level, it would be also a story about inequality.
Something
that impressed him about the original movie was how it was really a
blue collar space-trucker world in which Yaphet
Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton.
To him they were basically like Samuel
Beckett characters from Waiting for Godot who were ordered to go to a
place by a
faceless nameless corporation.
He saw how the sequel
Aliens was such an ’80s movie,
but still it was about grunts and thought that Paul Reiser as Burke was middle
management at best.
It was the story of the people who were sent to do the
dirty work.
In
his series, the viewers were going to see the people who are sending
them, and what happens when the inequality we’re struggling with in the
world of today wasn’t resolved.
So he was asking if we as a society
can’t figure out how to prop each
other up and spread the wealth, then what’s going to happen to us?
This would also echo Ripley's "which species is worst" comment to Burke.
Vanity Fair:What’s next for you? Is there a season five in the works forFargo?
Noah Hawley:Yeah, I think so. I don’t have it yet. I have pieces that will have to
survive. They’re not connected. I think it would be good to create an
ending, and deliberately come to something, knowing it’s the last one
and see how one might wrap up this anthology. What’s next for me, it
looks like, is [an] Alien series for FX, taking on that
franchise and those amazing films by Ridley Scott and James Cameron and
David Fincher. Those are great monster movies, but they’re not just
monster movies. They’re about humanity trapped between our primordial,
parasitic past and our artificial intelligence future—and they’re both
trying to kill us. Here you have human beings and they can’t go forward
and they can’t go back. So I find that really interesting.
Where are you in that process?
Noah Hawley: I’ve
written a couple of scripts, the first two scripts, and we’re looking
to make them next spring. When you get to something with this level of
visual effects, there’s a lot of preparation that has to go into it.
What’s been really illuminating is to see that the entire film industry
had to take a year off and they are now trying to jam two years of
production into one year. So it’s very hard to look on the planet earth
and see where you might make something in the next six months. Everyone
is racing to make up for lost time. So, I figure let that bubble burst a
little bit and we’ll do it right.
Is
there anything else you can share about it? Is it part of the Ripley
story, or will it be original characters in a different time and place?
Noah Hawley:It’s not
a Ripley story. She’s one of the great characters of all time, and I
think the story has been told pretty perfectly, and I don’t want to mess
with it. It’s a story that’s set on Earth also. The alien stories are
always trapped… Trapped in a prison, trapped in a space ship. I thought
it would be interesting to open it up a little bit so that the stakes of
“What happens if you can’t contain it?” are more immediate.
Vanity Fair: Deadly things that can’t be contained and the whole world at risk? Sounds relevant to the past year.
Noah Hawley: 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. The second movie is such an ’80s movie,
but it’s still about grunts. Paul Reiser is middle management at best. So, it is the story of the people you send to do the dirty work.
Vanity Fair: How does that relate to your series?
Noah Hawley:In
mine, you’re also going to see the people who are sending them. So you
will see what happens when the inequality we’re struggling with now
isn’t resolved. If we as a society can’t figure out how to prop each
other up and spread the wealth, then what’s going to happen to us?
There’s that great Sigourney Weaver line to Paul Reiser
where she says, “I don’t know which species is worse. At least they
don’t fuck each other over for a percentage.”
Pete Hammond: Are you involved in Aliens, bringing that into this kind of format (TV)
Noah Hawley: Yeah,
that's a project that that came to me through FX as you know erm in, in
the new, new Disney er shakeup. erm where the 'IDP' (?) goes erm and
it's something that I was interested in when they, when they told me
about it but you know, for better or worse which happens to me, when
people say "But what about Aliens?" and I think "oh yeah, that's interesting,"
and then I think you could do this or you could do that, erm, and erm,
so yes, we're still in early stages of of talking about it but erm you
know it's it's such a, such a great world and and one of the seminal
monsters , you know of film history that that, you know it's been
interesting to ro play around with and see what I can do with it Pete Hammond:Yeah,
and when you think of those films and who's been involved, Ridley Scott
and James Cameron, and others, You know I can't wait to see what Noah
Hawley will do you know having that handed to you and like in a sandbox
there over at Disney/Fox or whatever the whole conglomerate it Noah Hawley: Yeah,
you know that for five minutes, Neil Blomkamp was going to make an
Alien movie, I would have payed to see that, that would be cool
It
will be fascinating to see what he brings to his new TV project, a
series based on the Alien franchise. It's going well, he says, in part
because there's plenty of creative space for new stories. "We know there's a Weyland-Yutani Corporation." he says"
We know there are these creatures. You don't really know anything
about, y'know, has humanity has spread throughout the universe?"
The series, he suggests, may provide some answers. We can probably
expect the idea of humanity creating its own AI monsters, too. (SFX Magazine, April 2022 )
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