Alien Earth: What we know about season 2
Creator Noah Hawley has not yet started writing the future, but he already knows where he wants to go. We take stock.
Noah Hawley had the means of his SF ambitions. Alien: Earth benefited from a production budget of $ 250 million.
It’s huge. But the brilliant director, creator of Fargo and Legion, is the kind of creative to whom a studio can entrust the keys to the truck with your eyes closed, even when this truck is called the Nostromo.
“When we embark on a series like this, we evaluate its long-term potential. Noah has really set up an extremely rich setting, around this world led by conglomerates, and this future where humanity coexists with cyborgs, synthetic and hybrids. It is a limitless universe”, summarizes in first the producer David W. Zucker, Mandated on the project by Ridley Scott (via his company Scott Free Productions). Scott did not really have his say on Hawley’s vision. This series is his baby, and already, he follows in the lead.
“He does not yet want to tell me where the story is going, but I am of course ready to do season 2,” says the young star of the show, Sydney Chandler, at first. “Especially since the last episode ends really exciting. What will it give after? There are lots of possibilities …”
Attention spoilers!
This finale of season 1 of Alien: Earth is now online on Disney Plus and Hawley specifies in The Hollywood Reporter that this first season was never designed with a final end. He underlines:
“This chapter is more or less finished, but Yutani’s troops land on this island. The balance of forces has changed. These children have no idea what awaits them.”
He also noted that the final concludes with Wendy (Sydney Chandler) declaring: “Now We Rule”. A moment he describes as voluntarily misleading in his tone: “The last reply, ‘Now We Rule’, sounds triumphant and euphoric. But ten minutes later … What will happen? I like that it gives an emergency in real time!”
However, nothing has yet been engraved in marble, because season 2 of Alien: Earth is neither commanded, nor even written. This season 1 must first prove “that there are enough people on this planet who want to watch an Alien series to justify the cost of a second and a third season.”
Innuendo: given its production cost, Alien: Earth will have to conquer a large audience to justify a suite. “So for the moment, we are only at the stage of the conversation,” said the creator in Variety.
“I prefer to be effective and not work too much in advance. There are discussions in progress – obviously, season 1 is coming to an end, and we will have a clear idea of the audience. I imagine that a decision will follow quickly as to a possible second season. Neither Disney nor I want to waste more time than necessary to put a season 2 on the air … If I already know. glue.”
