Alien Earth: An Empire Podcast Special ft. Noah Hawley, Timothy Olyphant & Sydney Chandler

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In space, no-one can hear you pod. Thankfully, we're not on space, we're on Earth, so you will be able to hear this wonderful Empire Podcast special dedicated to Noah Hawley's excellent Alien prequel, Alien Earth, which dropped its first two episodes today on Disney+. Here, you will hear Chris Hewitt sit down with Hawley, the show's creator and showrunner, about his vision for the show, the monsters old and new that he's bringing into this universe, and the lengths his cast members went to get his attention. And you'll also hear from two of those cast members, Timothy Olyphant, who plays the inscrutable synth, Kirsh, and Sydney Chandler, who plays the show's wide-eyed but extremely formidable lead, a hybrid called Wendy. Neither interviews are spoilerific, but you might want to wait until you've seen the first two episodes before giving them a whirl. It's your call. We're not your MU-TH-UR.

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0:37.7	what's worth spending your time on and what isn't. So join me, James Dyer, as well as venerable
0:42.0	TV critics Boyd Hilton and Kay Ribeiro, and let us help take the stress out of your downtime.
0:47.1	The Pilot TV podcast, because you can't watch everything. Hello, Pod. I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to an Empire podcast special dedicated to Alien Earth.
1:12.5	The brand new Disney Plus show that dropped its first two episodes today, Wednesday, August 13th,
1:18.5	in case you're wondering what today's date was. Alien Earth is technically a prequel to Ridley
1:24.5	Scott's classic Alien, of course, but it is very much expanding and evolving
1:29.9	the ideas and themes that Ritters started playing with nearly 50 years ago, and which were
1:35.5	picked up, of course, by the likes of James Cameron, David Fincher, Sean Pierre Chune, and
1:41.0	more across the decades, including Ridley himself.
1:45.4	As you can tell from the title, this eight part first season, the first they're hoping
1:50.2	of several, I believe, somehow brings our old pal the xenomorph to earth a couple of years
1:57.2	before the events of Alien when a ship crash lands in the middle of a city,
2:03.5	a ship carrying a terrifying cargo. One that some of the richest and most powerful people on
2:09.6	a planet are very keen to get their hands on, for totally selfless reasons, of course.
2:15.9	So, how does this all play out? How does this take place before alien?
2:19.6	What the hell is going on? Well, you're going to have to watch to find out, of course, but the answer is
2:24.1	in ingenious ways, because yes, I know what you're thinking. An alien TV show? Come on, give me a break.
2:31.1	But Alien Earth is absolutely fantastic. We gave it five stars in our
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