Alien: Earth Creator on How Episode 5’s Ending Is Inspired by Elon Musk

Noah Hawley recently discussed the ending of Alien: Earth Episode 5, “In Space, No One…” The flashback installment staged a kind of stand-alone story that re-created the feel of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film, showing how the doomed USCSS Maginot crashed into Earth after its creatures escaped. With sets mirroring the Nostromo, the one-hour episode played like an alternate version of the original movie. Hawley also indirectly suggested that the ending twist was inspired by Elon Musk.

Noah Hawley explains Alien: Earth Episode 5’s ending twist

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about the latest episode, Noah Hawley explained, “This allowed me — in the middle of trying to innovate what [the Alien franchise could be as a series] — to also pick up the gauntlet for classic Alien to say, ‘We could do classic Alien and do it as well as anyone.’” He added, “By the time the xenomorph enters the story, you’re six tragedies deep with these other creatures. Then the xenomorph arrives and it just escalates.”

The Episode 5 ending twist revealed that Boy Kavalier, founder of Prodigy Corporation, sabotaged the Maginot to make it crash in his territory and steal the creatures. Hawley said, “I don’t look at our tech billionaires and think these guys are orchestrating some master plan. I think you have a lot of ADHD billionaires with impulse control issues.” He explained that the “boy genius is not a terribly thoughtful and calculating guy” who believes failure is impossible.

Though Hawley never mentioned a name, his remarks about “people who think they can go to space, re-invent travel, drill in the earth and enter politics” were widely understood as commentary on Elon Musk. He added, “They’re doing all of these at the same time when none of them are necessarily being done well. They’re just all being done a lot.”

Andy Yu’s character Teng spied on a crew member before the xenomorph killed him. Hawley clarified, “It’s always open to interpretation… But yeah, for me, he’s a creepy dude.”

Alien: Earth airs Tuesdays on FX and Hulu.

Originally reported by Anubhav Chaudhry on SuperHeroHype.

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