Alien TV Series Finally Finds Its Lead Actor

Noah Hawley’s Alien series appears to have its lead. FX has confirmed that Sydney Chandler will star in the secretive FX project, which is set to begin production this year.

Little is known about Chandler’s role in the series, though you can bet that she will be playing a new character, since Hawley previously confirmed that the new series won’t be a “Ripley story.”

“She’s one of the great characters of all time, and I think the story has been told pretty perfectly, and I don’t want to mess with it,” Hawley said in a previous interview.

Instead, Hawley said the series will be set on earth and will be a “story about inequality.”

“You know, one of the things that I love about the first movie is how ’70s a movie it is, and how it’s really this blue-collar space-trucker world in which Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton are basically Waiting for Godot,” he said.

So will Chandler play a space trucker? We’ll have to see. previously appeared in FX’s limited series “Pistol,” which told the story of The Sex Pistols, and is set to appear alongside Colin Farrell in Sugar, an upcoming Apple TV series.

Chandler and Hawley will be the latest to try and reimagine Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi series, which is also getting a movie from director Fede Alvarez. That movie just recently teased a behind-the-scenes glimpse of production alongside the return of the infamous Facehugger.

Hawley is best-known for his work on the Fargo TV series, giving the new show a major pedigree. However, Scott is among those who are skeptical of the project, claiming in a 2021 interview that it “will never be as good as the first one.”

We’ll see for ourselves when Alien premieres sometime in what will likely be 2024.

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN as well as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? Send her a DM at @the_katbot.