Alien: Earth creator confirms season 2 talks after cliffhanger finale: 'This is such a huge story...

Showrunner Noah Hawley reveals the status of season 2 as he digs into the tense season 1 finale. Alien: Earth creator confirms season 2 talks after cliffhanger

Showrunner Noah Hawley reveals the status of season 2 as he digs into the tense season 1 finale.

*Alien: Earth *creator confirms season 2 talks after cliffhanger finale: 'This is such a huge story to explore'

Showrunner Noah Hawley reveals the status of season 2 as he digs into the tense season 1 finale.

By Nick Romano

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September 23, 2025 9:09 p.m. ET

Sydney Chandler as Wendy on 'Alien: Earth'. Credit:

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**This article contains spoilers from *Alien: Earth* episode 8, "The Real Monsters."**

The monsters are loose. The immortal children are in charge. As Sydney Chandler's Wendy declares, "Now we rule."

The *Alien: Earth* season 1 finale feels like just the beginning for FX's big-budget pseudo-prequel to Ridley Scott's iconic sci-fi horror movies. Wendy might as well be TV's next Mother of Dragons, only instead of fire-breathing leviathans, she has an unstoppable xenomorph in her corner.

Prodigy head Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin), scientist Sylvia (Essie Davis), synth Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant), and Weyland-Yutani agent Morrow (Babou Ceesay) are now all prisoners of Wendy and the Lost Boys as they took complete control over Prodigy Island, which is now teeming with the dangerous alien creatures that escaped from their laboratory confines.

Noah Hawley, the showrunner and creator of *Alien: Earth*, confirms to ** that season 2 talks are underway, though he doesn't have a specific timeline for an official determination. He does call the show "a huge story to explore" and adds that he does "have a sense of where the journey goes in the long run."

Hawley speaks with EW about the current status of *Alien: Earth* season 2, as well as the big cliffhanger moments season 1 left for the audience.

Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and Hermit (Alex Lawther) on 'Alien: Earth'.

Patrick Brown/FX

**: By the time we get to this finale episode, it's very clear that the show is leaving the door wide open for more seasons. Was the idea of multiple seasons really ingrained in your initial vision for the show?**

**NOAH HAWLEY:** In some ways, that was the assignment when I talked with FX about it. We always discussed it as a recurring series. I have a sense of where the journey goes in the long run, but I don't necessarily know how long it'll take me to get there. I think that this is such a huge story to explore, but then again, we also have to fit into the timeline of the films. So there's some creative constraints that can often be helpful in terms of it's not completely open ended.

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**What is the current state of a second season?**

We're certainly having conversations about it, and I've been thinking on the creative front. It was very encouraging, the success of the show globally, and FX is very deliberate in their process. I think that's why they've been so successful, is they don't spend more than the show can realize in its return value. Part of it is not just, 'Are we gonna make more?' but, 'Are we gonna make more at what price and what's the timeline for it?' So all those factors are being discussed, but I don't have a timeline for you.

**In the timeline, we're very close to the launch of the Nostromo. Is that event in the back of your mind?**

I said early on you can make me care about timelines and mythology, but it's not my natural instinct to care about them passionately. What I tend to do is figure out the story I want to tell and then check and see how this would fit into the larger story. I'm still living very much within the world that I've created and with a green light for a season 2, I think I would dive in a little more probably to look at, What's the big picture of the show? How does it fit into the big picture of the films? What are the things that we're stuck with in terms of landmarks and dates and those sorts of things?

Timothy Olyphant as Kirsh on 'Alien: Earth'.

Patrick Brown/FX

**How much of this show for you was about telling the story of Weyland-Yutani and why they launched the Nostromo? In the Ridley Scott movies, Weyland-Yutani is the only corporation we hear about, and now we're seeing on the show what we imagine were the events that led to Prodigy's demise. **

When I originally thought about, 'What is the show, *Alien: Earth*?' my next question was, 'What is Earth?' On some level, the *Alien* franchise, you know, I think we have a clear sense that Weyland-Yutani is a dominant force, but 'how did it become that dominant force?' I think is a really interesting question, and that corporate power struggle, especially at a moment on our own planet, where it seems like so much of what our human story is is about shareholder value. That seemed like a really ripe area to explore.

**I loved all of the lore that you're adding in this show. I specifically want talk about Wendy's relationship to the xenomorph. It gave me very Daenerys and her Dragons or like, if you're a Studio Ghibli fan, Princess Mononoke and the wolf gods. Did you have specific iconography or influences you were pulling from?  **

In terms of reference points, obviously *Alien* itself and what seems clearly to be some form of communication that the Queen has with the drones. So there's something there to explore. *Game of Thrones*, obviously, the Mother of Dragons is a clear cultural touchstone in this moment, but also movies like *Arrival*, which was so much about first contact as an issue of language. There's that great anecdote in *Arrival* where she wants to use a blackboard and written language and she tells the kangaroo story. So there is this real danger of miscommunication, also. And then, you know, on some level it all goes back to *Jaws*. What if you could speak to the shark from *Jaws*? It's not necessarily a good thing. We really don't know to what degree are they just animals and to what degree do they have a more strategic brain?

The xenomorph of 'Alien: Earth'.

**The *Alien* movies have a long legacy of playing with that synth-xenomorph relationship. Was there a specific moment from the movies that felt like a jumping off point when figuring out how Wendy communicates with these creatures?**

On some level, the synthetic beings, from Ian Holmes to Michael Fassbender, have what seems like a pretty creepy obsession with these creatures. The sort of perfect organism idea certainly factors in. A big part of my job is, What are people's expectations? What do they think *Alien* is? What's their relationship to these symbolic characters? And then [I] either feed into that or use that to my advantage. There's an inherent distrust of Kirsh in an *Alien* franchise because he is a synthetic being. So, what are the actions that I give him? People are gonna project onto him, as well as watch to see what happens. I think you've found in that seventh hour that he had a plan all along, which was to trap Morrow. Clearly, he didn't mind breaking a few eggs to make that omelet. He did rescue these kids in the long run, but is he really working in their best interest? To what degree is he actually an agent of the Prodigy Corporation and to what degree is he a free agent?

**When you get to the end of the [finale], this is kind of like a *Jurassic Park* situation. They're on an island, there's a bunch of vicious predators roaming around tall grass. Was that a standout influence for you? **

*Jurassic Park* is one of the texts of genre filmmaking. What Michael Crichton was wrestling with was scientific advancements without a lot of thought going into them. There's money there, so we're not asking, '*Should* we do this?' We're only asking, '*Can* we do this?' Those parallels are certainly there on *Alien*. So on some level, *Jurassic Park* is one of the grandfather texts of all stories that grapple with people making terrible decisions in the name of money/science. But the other thing that was really interesting to me with the xenomorphs is we've never seen them in a natural ecosystem before, certainly not our own. There's power to that. That shot of the xenomorph and the cave, it's really striking. To see it moving through foliage and on the beach, etcetera, it makes it less abstract.

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*This interview has been edited for length and clarity.*

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