Filming on FX’s “Alien” series has been completed, says showrunner Noah Hawley

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FX’s lengthy extraterrestrial Principal photography on the series has been completed, says creator Noah Hawley.

“We’re done – just done,” Hawley said The Hollywood Reporter Wednesday, the same day his other FX series, Fargoreceived 15 Emmy nominations. “I’m in post-production and editing, and of course there’s a big visual effects component that takes time. But I couldn’t be happier with the show we made.”

“If people wanted a TV series based on the world of extraterrestrialI think I’ll give them something special.”

extraterrestrial was in early production in Thailand when the 2023 actors’ strike shut down the set (the scripts had all been written before the writers’ strike in May). Filming resumed after management agreed to new contracts with the two unions; the series is scheduled to premiere sometime next year.

When it actually debuts, almost five years will have passed since FX boss John Landgraf extraterrestrial Project in December 2020. The series will be set on Earth near the end of the 21st century, before the events of Ridley Scott’s 1979 space horror classic (Scott is an executive producer on the series with his company Scott Free). Hawley said in a January interview that the series will explore some of the same themes as that film, including the idea that humanity is “caught between its primordial parasitic past and its AI future, and both are trying to kill us.”

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

Hawley was there from the beginning and said THR that “it’s crazy when you consider that it took three to five years to make the first season of extraterrestrial.”

“I think I set a dramatically high bar for myself to take one of cinema’s biggest horror and action franchises and make it into something that takes more time with the characters and the theme and does more than just create a horror story about trying to escape death,” he said. “And I’m very happy with how it turned out, with the performances of the actors and the work of all the artists. I can’t wait for people to see it.”