Alien: Earth - You will never believe how this children’s classic fairy tale was an inspiration for the upcoming sci-fi series

Alien: Earth, the upcoming FX TV series, is highly anticipated and was also inspired by a children's fairy tale. The show's official logline states:

“When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, “Wendy” (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in FX’s Alien: Earth.”

The show has been created by Emmy-winning Noah Hawley, best known for Fargo and Legion. Despite being a sci-fi show, one of its inspirations was, surprisingly, the children's fairy tale, Peter Pan, as said by Noah Hawley in an interview with Vanity Fair.

How Peter Pan inspired Alien: Earth

In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Noah Hawley opened up about how J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan was one of the inspirations for the show's tone and characters. He told Vanity Fair,

“I had this Peter Pan idea, and I thought, Well, where in the first two movies is any of this?”

Hawley continued,

“In James Cameron’s movie, you have Newt, who’s an actual child, and then you have Bill Paxton’s character, who’s arguably the most childish character in the history of movies: ‘Game over, man!’ You have this confluence of this adult acting like a child, and this child acting wiser than all of the adults. And I thought, Oh, that’s in there.”

Hawley explained that the “Lost Boys" concept is central to Alien: Earth. But instead of carefree children in Neverland, this version is of a group of Hybrid robots who are adult-looking machines, with the consciousness of terminally ill children who agreed to go through a radical procedure. He said,

“There’s a nobility to children, and especially children who have been sick, and a wisdom and a sense of being beyond their years,”

“I thought it was interesting to bring these very clear-minded children into a complex moral universe that’s basically built around the sins of capitalism, and this trillionaire who’s basically still a child himself."

These Hybrids, developed by the Prodigy Corporation, bring a unique layer of humanity to the show’s futuristic world, heavily centered on technology. Hawley saw them as true heroes, innocent but wise, placed in a world filled with corruption and corporate greed.

The tone of the show is clear from its official synopsis:

In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans. But the game is changed when the wunderkind Founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a new technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with human consciousness). The first hybrid prototype named “Wendy” marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides into Prodigy City, “Wendy” and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.

The Alien: Earth cast includes Sydney Chandler as Wendy, along with Timothy Olyphant as Kirsh, Alex Lawther as Hermit, Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier, Adrian Edmondson as Atom Eins, Essie Davis as Dame Sylvia, Lily Newmark as Nibs, and many more.

Alien: Earth premieres on August 12 on FX and Hulu.

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