Alien: Earth‘s showrunner and actors handle the potential of a brand new crossover with the Predator franchise. Premiering August 12 on FX, Alien: Earth brings the horror sci-fi franchise to live-action tv for the primary time in a brand new story set earlier than Ridley Scott’s inaugural Alien movie. In the meantime, the Predator franchise can also be resurgent underneath director Dan Trachtenberg, with the animated Predator: Killer of Killers on Hulu, and Predator: Badlands premiering in theaters in November.
Throughout ScreenRant‘s interviews for Alien: Earth, which already boasts the Alien franchise’s highest Rotten Tomatoes rating since 1986, creator and showrunner Noah Hawley, in addition to actors Samuel Blenkin and Babou Cessay, spoke to Liam Crowley concerning the probabilities of a brand new Alien vs. Predator crossover.
Whereas Hawley was cautious concerning the concept, citing that the Alien franchise has to “show ourselves on tv” first and noting his concern a few crossover might “steal some power from the franchise,” Blenkin and Cessau additionally shared their pleasure for the concept. Learn their quotes under.
Noah Hawley: Yeah, I imply I believe you are projecting a type of a grasp plan due to what Marvel has achieved and the truth that there’s one individual, Kevin Feige, who’s overseeing that whole story as one massive story. Dan Trachtenberg, he is on his personal mission, and there is a little bit of a firewall between the characteristic facet and the TV facet. Possibly in success. Now we have to show ourselves on tv. Possibly a bigger dialog will begin principally to not coordinate, however in all probability to verify we do not duplicate as a result of that begins to steal a number of the power from the franchise. However I am excited to see that movie.
Samuel Blenkin: That could be a Noah Hawley query. We’ll simply should see. You will should because the season unfolds, however yeah, I am unable to wait to see that. I am actually excited to see it and I like that there’s a slight crossover there in universes, however that is a Noah query.
Babou Ceesay: It is fantastic as properly to see each these franchises which can be so iconic, coming again, coming again and coming again so sturdy. We had been at Comedian-Con they usually had been there as properly. It is simply the environment, the excitement, they usually’ve had a crossover earlier than, so something is feasible, proper?
Noah Hawley is, understandably, extra targeted on Alien: Earth changing into a hit on FX and proving the Xenomorph franchise can thrive on tv. Hawley evoking Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige denotes that the Alien and Predator franchises do not have that type of a grasp planner, and that Dan Trachtenberg is overseeing his personal imaginative and prescient for Predator after the success of Hulu’s Prey in 2022.
The theatrical Alien franchise additionally had a latest hit with followers and critics with director Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, which has a sequel in improvement. It is doable that if a brand new Alien vs. Predator crossover had been to occur, it could be on the movie facet and never the tv facet of Alien underneath Noah Hawley.
Our Take On A Future Alien Vs. Predator Crossover
Noah Hawley’s instincts to give attention to constructing a profitable Alien tv franchise are the best transfer, reasonably than trying to department out with the concept of a crossover with Predator. Nonetheless, one additionally can not help being excited on the considered Alien and Predator assembly once more, as Samuel Blenkin and Babou Cessay are, given the brand new heights each franchises are reaching.
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, Alien vs. Predator hit theaters in 2004, with the sequel, the Greg and Colin Strause-directed Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, following in 2007. The Alien vs. Predator films aren’t thought to be classics as the unique Alien or Predator movies are, nevertheless. There’s potential to create a terrific crossover between the 2 iconic film creatures, even when it is probably not underneath the auspices of Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth TV sequence.