Interviews With The "Alien: Earth" Cast & Executive Producers

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

"Alien: Earth" is an upcoming science fiction horror television series created by Noah Hawley ("Fargo" & "Legion"), based on the "Alien" franchise. It serves as a prequel set two years before the events of the original 1979 film "Alien." Creator, Executive Producer, Writer (Episodes 1-8) & Director (Episodes 1 &5), Noah Hawley, Executive Producer David W. Zucker, and cast members Sydney Chandler ("Wendy"), Alex Lawther ("Hermit"), Timothy Olyphant ("Kirsh"), Babou Ceesay ("Morrow"), and Samuel Blenkin ("Boy Kavalier") were all kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work on the series, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the series, which will premiere on Tuesday, August 12th, with the first two episodes available to stream on Hulu at 8 p.m. ET and on the FX linear channel at 8 p.m. ET/PT, and Disney+ internationally. A new episode of the 8-episode season will premiere each following Tuesday on Hulu beginning at 8 p.m. ET and on FX at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and these are Giovanni Lago's interviews with the stars of the show Alien Earth, Sydney Chandler, Alex Laffer, Timothy Vialophon, Babu Kisi, and Samuel Blanken.
0:13.1	And the creator, executive producer and writer Noah Hawley, and executive producer David W. Zucker.
0:18.9	How's that girl? She's ready. You're going to be the first person to transition from a human body to a synthetic.
0:28.6	Because I'm special.
0:30.6	That's right.
0:32.6	You're very, very special.
0:38.3	No, and David, thank you for joining me today.
0:41.3	Yeah, thank you.
0:42.3	That's great.
0:43.3	The idea of experimentation is nothing new to the Alien series,
0:47.3	but having a series that is so predominantly focused on the alteration of technology,
0:51.3	to make it as real or as believable as life itself, very eerily akin to what
0:57.0	is happening right now with the rise of AI, especially in this industry.
1:02.0	I'm sure as creatives that must have been weighing on your minds when conceptualizing what this series would be,
1:08.0	what is it like delving into those teams and exploring it and how,
1:12.1	unfortunately, it is growing more and more as each day presses?
1:16.2	Yeah, I mean, when the series was written before production, there was no AI, really.
1:22.9	You know, there was no chat GPT or any of the other interfaces.
1:27.0	Certainly wasn't a consumer facing product.
1:30.4	And then when we went into production,
1:32.2	you had that first round and the shock of realization
1:37.0	that the future that we thought was this abstract five
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