Thursday, November 20, 2025

Noah Hawley reached out to Dan Trachtenberg about Weyland-Yutani in Badlands, however snubbed Fede Alvarez


You’d have thought Noah Hawley would have been eager to share concepts with Alien: Romulus director Fede Alvarez throughout the time Alien: Earth was in manufacturing – however apparently not. Throughout a current interview with Heroes Solid Podcast, Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg recalled receiving a name from Noah Hawley after the primary teaser trailer for Badlands got here out and the way Noah was fascinated about sharing concepts about their incorporation of Alien into Predator. However, when Fede Alvarez tried reaching out to Noah for a similar causes, no person answered his calls…

Noah Howley reached out when he noticed our trailer and was like, “You’re doing stuff with Weyland-Yutani, we ought to be speaking” and he despatched over some cuts of Alien: Earth at the moment. It was solely in all probability a few months earlier than it truly got here out.

The half the place Dan discusses Noah Hawley reaching out is across the 51-minute mark:

This would not have gotten our consideration if it wasn’t for the truth that it now appears intentional that Noah Hawley apparently snubbed Alien: Romulus’ director Fede Alvarez when he tried to achieve out for comparable causes again when Alien: Earth was in manufacturing. Throughout a chat with our buddies over on the AvPGalaxy Podcast, Fede recalled reaching out to Noah Hawley to additionally share concepts the best way Noah reached out to Dan, however Fede says no person returned his calls. Whereas the crew at AvPG assert this did happen a lot earlier in Alien: Earth’s manufacturing, it nonetheless begs the query why Noah by no means returned Fede’s calls in any respect, however was keen to achieve out to Trachtenberg.

A shot of the Xenomorph suit on set of Alien: Romulus

Dan Trachtenberg set Predator: Badlands to date into the long run, nicely previous the occasions of Alien Resurrection and Noah Hawley set Alien: Earth to date in the other way, there actually cannot be any logical overlap by any means. Alien: Romulus is about nearer to Alien: Earth’s timelime, which might have afforded alternative for collaboration.

We might have thought an Alien TV sequence creator and the director of the newest Alien film would for certain have sat right down to collaborate and map out trajectory for the franchise, working collectively. But it surely looks as if fairly the other is occurring.

Moreover, Alien: Earth Season 2 was simply green-lit and begins filming subsequent 12 months however we have obtained no phrase on the state of the Alien: Romulus sequel which was because of begin filming final month. Paradoxically, Romulus 2 or one other Alien prequel is what majority of followers seemingly had been hoping for earlier than a second season of Earth.

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