According to Deadline, Noah Hawley’s (Lucy in the Sky, Fargo) Alien television series. Production on the series was paused during the SAG-AFTRA strike starting in August.
Alien will be returning to production in Bangkok, Thailand in early 2024. “We’re getting back into production as quickly as possible,” Hawley told Deadline. “We’re shooting in Bangkok, a half a world away; shooting again in the New Year.” Production reportedly could in January or February.
The series is based on the Alien film franchise created by Ronald Shusett (Alien vs. Predator, Prometheus) and Dan O’Bannon (The Return of the Living Dead, Alien Resurection).
The cast of the series includes Kit Young (The School for Good and Evil, Shadow and Bone), Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling, Chemistry), Alex Lawther (The End of the F***ing World, The Imitation Game), Samuel Blenkin (Black Mirror, Atlanta), Adrsh Gourav (The White Tiger, Hostel Daze), and Essie Davis (The Babadook, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries).
Comicbook has reported that Hawley has teased that the show will take place in the future on Earth. While on panel at the Austin Film Festival, Hawley explained his thoughts on making this decision. “Look, a two-hour movie, you can set it up and then it’s just about, ‘Are they going to survive?’ But if you’re making a series, ‘Are they going to survive?’, you can’t sustain it. Even if you have 60% of the best action-horror on television, you still have 40% of ‘What are we talking about?'” Hawley said, according to Comicbook.
“I had some conversations early on with Peter Rice, who used to run all of television at Fox and then the first couple of years at Disney, where it was like, ‘The thing with Alien is, it’s always trapped in a spaceship, trapped in a prison. What if it wasn’t that?'” He continued, also according to Comicbook.