Alien Earth Showrunner Says Every Alien Movie Has Greatness In It

With FX's Alien series set to premiere on August 12, fans continue to debate the merits of the often starkly different installments in the series. Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Resurrection, and the prequels are each very different flavors of horror, but according to showrunner Noah Hawley, they each have their merits, too.

"I think every Alien movie has greatness in it," Hawley said in a roundtable discussion ahead of the series' premiere. "I think Fincher brought a lot of really great moments and ideas to it, and [Alien Resurrection director Jean-Pierre] Jeunet, the first half of it, I really liked. It was very odd in a way. But I love the sort of clone Sigourney and that whole storyline. Everyone introduced very interesting ideas to it."

Still, Hawley continued, Alien: Earth leans into only the first two movies for its most direct inspirations, especially the 1979 original.