Det var inte länge sedan som Ridley Scott kommenterade Noah Hawleys kommande Alien-serie med att den aldrig kommer att nå upp till originalfilmens briljans. Det må så vara, men det låter ändå som att Hawley har lyckats hitta en spännande riktning om dennes intervju med Esquire är någon som helst indikation. Där berättar Hawley att showen blir en maktkamp mellan ansiktslösa företag, men processen går långsamt:
"It's going great. It's going slowly, unfortunately, given the scale of it. I've made a certain business out of reinvention. Alien is a fascinating story because it's not just a monster movie; it's about how we're trapped between the primordial past and the artificial intelligence of our future, where both [are] trying to kill us. It's set on Earth of the future. At this moment, I describe that as Edison versus Westinghouse versus Tesla. Someone's going to monopolize electricity. We just don't know which one it is."
Han tillade:
"In the movies, we have this Weyland-Yutani Corporation, which is clearly also developing artificial intelligence — but what if there are other companies trying to look at immortality in a different way, with cyborg enhancements or transhuman downloads? Which of those technologies is going to win? It's ultimately a classic science fiction question: does humanity deserve to survive? As Sigourney Weaver said in that second movie, 'I don't know which species is worse. At least they don't fuck each other over for a percentage.' Even if the show was 60% of the best horror action on the planet, there's still 40% where we have to ask, 'What are we talking about it, beneath it all?' Thematically, it has to be interesting. It's humbling to get to play with the iconography of this world."
TV-serien, som utspelar sig på Jorden, kommer att få premiär någon gång nästa år. Hur låter Hawleys beskrivning, enligt dig?