Alien Show Timeline Makes A Prometheus Connection Possible
The FX Alien TV show's timeline makes a potentially fascinating Prometheus connection possible for the series. Written by Fargo's Noah Hawley, Alien tells the story of a near-future Earth some 30 years before Ripley and the Nostromocrew's fateful voyage that began in 2120. According to FX chief John Landgraf, the Alien prequel series takes place "70-odd years from now" (perEsquire), placing it at the center of some of the Alien franchise's most fascinating lore and history.
Landgraf's comments root FX's Alien show in 2092, the same year Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley is born on a near-future Earth. This overlap in the Alien canon is clearly no fluke by the Alien prequel series, indicating Hawley and company's sincere desire to pay homage to Ridley Scott's seminal original movie. While Ripley is confirmed not to feature at all in FX's Alien story, Hawley has confirmed the show will instead take a closer look at the shady Weyland-Yutani corporation, placing an added emphasis on the corporate raiders dispatching doomed crews (just like the Nostromo's) into space.
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As a result, FX's Alien show timeline makes a connection to Prometheus not only possible but plausible too. The Alien prequel series' plans indicate a significant amount of symmetry with Prometheus' narrative, with the USCSS Prometheus leaving Earth just one year before FX's Alien begins chronologically. In this way, the bulk of Prometheus' events will occur during the Alien series' timeline of events — making Weyland-Yutani's reaction to the horrors unfolding on LV-223 a likely subplot for the show.
The 2090s in which Alien's prequel show takes place is a monumental decade in the Alien
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