I de første Alien-film blev de frygtindgydende Xenomorphs beskrevet som en "perfekt organisme", der har udviklet sig over årtusinder til at blive det oplagte rovdyr. Dette blev dog undergravet af skaber Ridley Scott selv i Prometheus, hvor det blev afsløret at disse væsener faktisk, til dels, er designet, ikke udviklet igennem evolution.
Men det vælger skaberen bag den kommende Alien-serie på FX, Noah Hawley, helt at ignorere, og det har han også fået lov til at Scott. Ovre hos Hollywood Reporter fremgår det, at Xenomorphs her er udviklet igennem evolution, ikke designet.
"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 fortæller desuden, at serien primært lægger sig i forlængelse af de første to film:
"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."
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