FX chairman John Landgraf has probably revealed the official title of Noah Hawley’s upcoming Alien TV sequence.

FX chairman John Landgraf is having a very good day, with the programmer scoring 93 nominations at the 76th Emmy Awards. He spoke with Variety about FX’s success and dropped a number of particulars about some upcoming exhibits, together with the doable title of Noah Hawley’s Alien TV sequence.

“Noah is deep in work on Season 1 of ‘Alien: Earth’ right now,” Landgraf stated. “We’re in post-production, and we’re speaking to him and watching cuts each week.“

Landgraf continued, saying he’s very optimistic about the sequence and hopes Hawley will write a minimum of two seasons earlier than returning to Fargo season 6: “We’re fairly bullish on ‘Alien: Earth’ and we’ve advised him that assuming, as we hope, ‘Alien: Earth’ is a returning tv sequence, we wish him to give attention to on a minimum of writing two seasons of it earlier than returning to a doable sixth season of ‘Fargo.’“

Sydney Chandler, who stars in the Alien TV sequence as Wendy, lately revealed that she has completed taking pictures the sequence. Her character is alleged to be a hybrid meta-human with the mind and consciousness of a baby however the physique of an grownup. The sequence additionally stars Essie Davis, Alex Lawther, Kit Young, Adarsh Gourav, Timothy Olyphant, and extra.

Noah Hawley has teased that the sequence will open up the sometimes confined stakes of the franchise. “The alien stories are always trapped … trapped in a prison, trapped in a spaceship,” Hawley stated. “I assumed it could be attention-grabbing to open it up a bit of bit in order that the stakes of ‘What happens if you can’t include it?’ are extra instant.“

Corporations, together with the notorious Weylan-Yutani, are additionally stated to play a serious function in the sequence. “In the movies, we have this Weyland-Yutani Corporation, which is clearly also developing artificial intelligence—but what if there are other companies trying to look at immortality in a different way, with cyborg enhancements or transhuman downloads?” Hawley stated. “Which of these applied sciences goes to win? It’s finally a basic science fiction query: does humanity need to survive? As Sigourney Weaver stated in that second film, ‘I don’t know which species is worse. At least they don’t f*ck one another over for a proportion.’“

What do you assume of Alien: Earth as the title of the TV sequence?