FX’s "Alien" Series Official Title Revealed

FX‘s upcoming “Alien” series has a new title, “Alien: Earth.”

The announcement was made by FX network boss John Langraf and showrunner Noah Hawley.  

“We just wrapped production, so now I’m into the long post that gets into visual effects,” Hawley told Variety while discussing the Emmy nominations earned by “Fargo,” his other FX series. 

“It’s a very big show. It’s nice to have some time with it,” he continued. “The first year of anything, you want to feel like you’re not up against the wall in terms of time. I’ve seen four of the eight hours of director cuts and engaged in the process of figuring out, cinematically, what it wants to be. It’s one of my favorite parts of making a show.”

Langraf, in an interview about “Fargo,” “The Bear,” “Shogun” and FX’s other Emmy-nominated shows, said that he’s already thinking about the future of the show.

“We’re pretty bullish on ‘Alien: Earth’ and we’ve told him that assuming, as we hope, ‘Alien: Earth’ is a returning television series, we want him to focus on at least writing two seasons of it before returning to a possible sixth season of ‘Fargo,'” he added.

“Alien: Earth” serves as a prequel to Ridley Scott’s 1979 movie “Alien,” which kicked off a blockbuster franchise that is now comprised of eight movies. Alongside Hawley’s series, a new movie titled “Alien: Romulus” is set to debut later this summer.

The prequel series stars Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, David Rysdahl, Samuel Blenkin, Adarsh Gourav, Babou Ceesay, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Diêm Camille, and Adrian Edmondson.