Alien: Earth has been touted as a prequel to Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic Alien, but as we get closer to the release of Noah Hawley’s ambitious new FX show, it’s clear the connection is loose at best. At an early preview of Alien: Earth at SXSW attended by Inverse, Hawley was vague on whether the series would be canon to the movie franchise. “I chose not to engage with that part of the story and to just sort of speak to the Alien that I had encoded,” Hawley said.
Now, it’s been confirmed that Alien: Earth will exist “in parallel” to the movie franchise. In a glossy preview feature for the series, FX Entertainment president Gina Balian told Variety, “Everything doesn’t have to fit together the way you expect from Marvel. Fans don’t expect that in this universe. It doesn’t have the same pressure.”
