{"id":34270,"date":"2025-09-24T01:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/34270\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T01:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:58:07","slug":"noah-hawley-on-finale-cliffhanger-season-2-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/34270\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Hawley on Finale Cliffhanger, Season 2 Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFX\u2019s Alien: Earth<\/a> concluded its debut season run with a moment that almost felt like a stage-play curtain call: All the acclaimed sci-fi drama\u2019s surviving broken toy characters (some, like Timothy Olyphant\u2019s Kirsh, literally broken) together in one room \u2014 including the xenomorph. They didn\u2019t quite take a bow for the audience, but their ambitions and murderous resentments were seeming put on hold \u2014 for now. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe uniquely staged cliffhanger was also rather practical. Showrunner and executive producer Noah Hawley<\/a> arguably gave himself plenty of options for season two rather than box himself into one particular direction following a season that incorporated several different ideas, genre styles and threads. <\/p>\n

\n\tAhead of the finale, Hawley spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about how the finale sets up a second season of Alien: Earth and how the vibe of the show\u2019s final moment may be a bit deceptive in terms of what comes next.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo with Fargo being an anthology series with a story that wrapped each season, you could always do a finale on that show where you could just do anything you wanted. This felt like a finale where you kept all the chess pieces on the board. I know you have a long-term plan, but is there also some degree of, \u201cLet\u2019s see what the audience reaction is to these characters and these storylines before making any permanent decisions about them and the season two storyline?\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tI think there\u2019s an artistic answer to that, and there\u2019s a commercial answer to that, right? Obviously, I had to plan and execute a story that that\u2019s going someplace. And then, this whole thing is a proof-of-concept experiment to see if enough people on the planet want to watch an Alien TV show to justify the expense of a second and third season of an Alien TV show. So for me, I never hedged my bets. This is not a closed-ended season. This chapter is closed, but Yutani troops are landing. The balance of power has shifted. These children have no idea what\u2019s coming. The last line of, \u201cNow we rule\u201d is triumphant and uplifting. But cut to 10 minutes later \u2026 what is going to be happening? So I like that it has that real-time urgency to it.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s also worth looking at some of the structural elements. I\u2019m used to working with 10 hours and I had eight hours here. And because of the way the story unfolded, I had two-and-a-half hours at the crash site. Then I came back to Neverland for an hour and a half. Then I had a spaceship episode [the show\u2019s fifth], and then I had three episodes to pay off the Neverland story. There was a lot that had to be accomplished in a constricted period of time. So there were a lot of structural challenges to make sure that it\u2019s not only immersive on a character and thematic level, but that [the show] can set and pay off a story while setting up a future story. What\u2019s gratifying to me from the critical response is that this high-degree-difficulty dive seems to have landed.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) seems proud of Wendy (Sydney Chandler) saying, \u201cNow we rule.\u201d Does it suggest that she passed some sort of graduation in his mind that he\u2019s privately had?<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m glad that you picked up on that. There\u2019s this word that was coined in Northern California: Disruptor. Boy Kavalier has real anti-authoritarian issues from his father, and came into this world where there were four major corporations, and, in the span of six-to-eight, years became a rival to these people. Everyone else is invested in maintaining a status quo. And he is an anarchist, I feel like. So I think there\u2019s something about this moment where he realized that not only has he created this immortality product, but that his best invention is this self-aware machine. If you\u2019re Peter Pan and you want death to adults, how great is it that the children are going to rule now? Who knows what will happen? So I do think he certainly has a low point when Wendy holds up the mirror and shows him who he really is. But then there\u2019s delight in the fact that she\u2019s picking up the matchbook and is ready to burn it all down. It\u2019s so exciting what\u2019s going to happen next.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat is the latest on potentially getting a season two? Previously, you said the show could run first as many as five seasons, but I noticed you just referenced getting \u201ca second and third season.\u201d So it made me wondering if you\u2019ve adjusted that ambition at all. <\/p>\n

\n\tI wouldn\u2019t read too much into that. I don\u2019t have a destination in mind. I don\u2019t know how long it will take me to get there. It\u2019s been such an amazing act of play for me to enter this franchise and bring my own ideas to it. And just like with Fargo, I think, \u201cWho am I kidding? As long as they let me tell stories in this tone of voice, I\u2019m going to tell stories in this tone of voice.\u201d Right now, I feel flush with enthusiasm for this hybrid show that I\u2019ve made between Alien and looking at the future of humanity in a way that feels entertaining. So I don\u2019t know. And look, there are artistic goals and the commercial goals. I think we\u2019ve launched incredibly well. I\u2019m certainly hoping that it\u2019s not a long nail biter of \u201cCan we do this again?\u201d My hope is certainly in the next couple of months to get some kind of sign from them as to whether I should get another job or get back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FX\u2019s Alien: Earth concluded its debut season run with a moment that almost felt like a stage-play curtain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6875,146,85,46,21404],"class_list":{"0":"post-34270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-alien-earth","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-noah-hawley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}