Noah Hawley expands 'Alien' world with 21st century influences

Noah Hawley’s goal isn’t to rewrite what others have written, but to expand upon the worlds they’ve created.

In the case of the television versions of “Fargo,” and “Alien,” “I thought there were a lot of really powerful ideas still to be explored,” he says.

With the Coen Brothers’ “Fargo,” the Emmy winner was able to find five other stories that fit nicely in the quirky world they had created.

Now, in “Alien: Earth,” he’s expanding upon the idea Ridley Scott created with “Alien.”

Because fans of the 1979 film have already “discovered” the creature Scott introduced, Hawley had to find other lures. “When we put the monsters in, that’s the money-back guarantee, right?” he says. “So, we had to create this human drama in which you have a lot of human monsters as well and explore a lot of is