Alien Covenant Lets You Burst Out of a Human Host.The second movie is such an ’80s movie, but it’s still about grunts.” They’re like Samuel Beckett characters, ordered to go to a place by a faceless nameless corporation. “You know, one of the things that I love about the first movie is how ’70s a movie it is, and how it’s really this blue collar space-trucker world in which Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton are basically Waiting for Godot. “On some level it’s also a story about inequality,” Hawley said in that same conversation. Discussing his inspiration for where to take the franchise, Hawley points to the series’ long engagement with working class characters, from interstellar merchants to Marines on assignment. With an Earth setting comes Earth problems-namely, income inequality. I thought it would be interesting to open it up a little bit so that the stakes of ‘What happens if you can’t contain it?’ are more immediate.” “Trapped in a prison, trapped in a spaceship. “The Alien stories are always trapped,” Hawley told Vanity Fair.
Hawley’s Alien will blast out of the airlock with one huge departure from what fans of the franchise know and love: the story will be set on Earth. Read on for the full rundown of what to expect. And now, new details are emerging about how the series will square up with canon. The show is still in early development, but in an interview with Esquire, Hawley teases an interpretation that blends the franchise’s classic creature feature structure with a modern parable about corporate greed.
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