I de första Alien-filmerna beskrevs de skräckinjagande Xenomorpherna som en "perfekt organism" som utvecklats under årtusenden för att bli det ultimata rovdjuret. Detta undergrävdes dock av skaparen Ridley Scott själv i rullen Prometheus, där det avslöjades att dessa varelser faktiskt delvis är designade, och alltså inte utvecklade genom evolution.
Men skaparen av den kommande Alien-serien på FX, Noah Hawley, väljer att helt ignorera detta, och tydligen har Scott tillåtit honom att göra det. Via The Hollywood Reporter framgår att Xenomorphs återigen utvecklas genom evolution, inte design:
"For me, and for a lot of people, this 'perfect life form' — as it was described in the first film — is the product of millions of years of evolution that created this creature that may have existed for a million years out there in space. The idea that, on some level, it was a bioweapon created half an hour ago, that's just inherently less useful to me."
Hawley säger också att serien främst är en fortsättning på de två första filmerna:
"In terms of the mythology, what's scary about this monster, is that when you look at those first two movies, you have this retro-futuristic technology. You have giant computer monitors, these weird keyboards... You have to make a choice. Am I doing that? Because in the prequels, Ridley made the technology thousands of years more advanced than the technology of Alien, which is supposed to take place in those movies' future. There's something about that that doesn't really compute for me. I prefer the retro-futurism of the first two films. And so that's the choice I've made — there's no holograms. The convenience of that beautiful Apple store technology is not available to me."
Låter detta bra, tycker du, eller trasslar det bara till mytologin ännu mer?
Evolution skapade denna best, oavsett vad Ridley Scott tycker om saken.
