{"id":64490,"date":"2025-08-13T07:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64490\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:03:07","slug":"prequel-breathes-new-life-into-a-flagging-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64490\/","title":{"rendered":"Prequel breathes new life into a flagging franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Pontikos<\/p>\n<p>Aug 13, 2025 \u2013 12.41pm<\/p>\n<p>Gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-title\" data-testid=\"Modal-title\">Subscribe to gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-giftDescription -d6475070fa5e1d14-noMaxWidth\" data-testid=\"Modal-description\">Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.<\/p>\n<p><a data-testid=\"Modal-subscribe-button\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.afr.com\/?promote_channel=HI_AGFT_GNL_GIFTCTA&amp;utm_source=ArticleGifting&amp;utm_medium=HouseInventory&amp;utm_campaign=General&amp;utm_content=GiftCTA\" class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeSubtext\">Already a subscriber? Login<\/p>\n<p>In Hollywood\u2019s book of big budget franchises, Alien has been a shape-shifter. In 1979, director Ridley Scott fused gothic horror with blue-collar sci-fi to birth the xenomorph: an H.R. Giger-designed space monster that\u2019s haunted screens ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Almost half a century on, Noah Hawley, the show-runner of Fargo, whose genre-bending talent adapted the Coen brothers\u2019 bleak classic into one of TV\u2019s most innovative dramas, leads a new prequel, Alien: Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terry Pontikos Aug 13, 2025 \u2013 12.41pm Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-64490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}