Don’t worry, the upcoming Alien prequel series is ignoring Prometheus too
Good news, everyone: Noah Hawley, showrunner of the upcoming Alien prequel series, has no plans to acknowledge Prometheus in the show.
Prometheus, as a whole, was just a bit of a silly film; it took away too much mystery from the original Alien, and structurally just revisited already well trodden ground. Alien fans would all just prefer to ignore it, and in a recent interview with KCRW’s The Business podcast (via The Hollywood Reporter), Hawley essentially said he intends to do the same. “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,” Hawley said.
“The idea that, on some level, it was a bioweapon created half an hour ago, that’s just inherently less useful to me. 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?