When asked to recall the earliest movie that defined robots for him, “Alien: Earth” star Timothy Olyphant leapt from Ridley Scott’s universe into an entirely different sector of space. “I certainly remember ‘Star Wars’ as a kid. I certainly remember those droids being so vivid and lovable and memorable,” he shared in a recent video interview. “And boy, if my memory serves, those droids were there just to serve humanity; so docile, nothing frightening about them.”

“I don’t feel like that’s where we’re headed,” he added.

On that, Olyphant and his co-star Babou Ceesay agree. For Ceesay, the relationship between humans and robots was solidified in his mind by 1991’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.”

“When I watched that, I remember feeling actual dread at the idea that there’s, in the future, a

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