Noah Hawley

One of us is an expert on Alien, but I don't think it's me.

Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, I've now had this opportunity a couple of times, right, to take a classic film and turn it into a TV show.

And, you know, for me, it's never about going back and re-watching the film, right?

It's about thinking about, well, how does that film live in my imagination?

And what are the feelings that it brings up?

and how can I create those same feelings in an audience by telling them a different story, you know?

The thing with an alien movie is it's a two-hour survival story, but a TV show has to be the opposite, right?

You have to invest in 10 or 30 or 50 hours about characters who don't die, right?

And so, well, what is it if it's not a two-hour survival story?

And so there needs to be, you know, even if you have...

60% of the best action in horror, you still have 40% of what are we talking about, right?

What's the show about and everything.

So that's where it started for me.

And it came down to this one moment in...

in Ridley's movie where, you know, the monster's out and Sigourney's in the communication room and the computer is telling her that the crew is expendable and she leans back and Ian Holm is there and you realize he's an android.

Right.

And I thought, well, that moment in which humanity realizes it's trapped between nature and technology and they're both trying to kill us, that feels like the moment we're living in.

Right, totally.

And that feels like what the show is about.

Yeah, well, like I said, what are the feelings that the original gave me?