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FX Productions has signed writer and contributing producer Bobak Esfarjani (FX’s Kindred and Alien) to an overall deal. Under the agreement, Esfarjani will continue to work on these and other series while developing new content for the network. "Bobak has greatly contributed to FX's upcoming Kindred and Alien and now…

Don’t Breathe filmmaker Fede Alvarez is set to write and helm an original Alien movie for 20th Century studios. Alvarez will direct the movie for Hulu as part of 20th’s deal to provide 10 pics a year to the Disney owned OTT service. Alvarez’s pitch is reportedly completely separate from the previous movies, Deadline…

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FX Chief John Landgraf provided an update at the network’s TCA winter tour panel today on Noah Hawley’s Alien series. “There are some big surprises in store for the audience,” exclaimed the network boss. But when asked by Deadline, he said Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley won’t be starring. FX Networks @ TCA: Deadline's Compl…

In the wake of FX announcing a fifth season of Fargo this morning, the network’s chief John Landgraf provided an idea of where the Noah Hawley series is headed at the TCA winter virtual tour. In regards to where season 5 is set, “I will say it’s in the upper Midwest, we won’t pin it down more than that,” said…

Even though Fargo creator Noah Hawley is prioritizing FX’s new Alien series with Ridley Scott executive producing, the network’s boss John Landgraf is “hopeful” about a Season 5. FX Day @ TCA: Deadline’s Complete Coverage  “That’s really up to Noah,” Landgraf told Deadline today, “I’m optimistic that he’ll want to do…

Noah Hawley’s upcoming Alien series at FX will be “very grounded,” network boss John Landgraf shared during a TCA presentation on Friday. FX Day @ TCA: Deadline's Full Coverage “I think Noah’s very conscious of the fact that there’s a cinematic universe,” Landgraf said. Announced by FX in December, Hawley’s Alien will…

In an interview with Vanity Fair published Thursday, Noah Hawley teased his FX Alien series, which he is gearing up to shoot “next spring,” clarifying that “it’s not a Ripley story.” The Fargo and Legion creator was referring, of course, to the iconic character played by Sigourney Weaver, who faced off with a…

Noah Hawley is nothing if not versatile. The prolific writer, director, producer and novelist has won an impressive group of awards for his work in TV including Emmys, Golden Globes, Critics Choice and Peabody honors  for his most acclaimed series: FX’s crown jewel Fargo. The series has once again been generating…

Sigourney Weaver paid tribute to her Alien co-star Yaphet Kotto on Wednesday, recalling the late actor’s intensity when the two were making the iconic 1979 sci-fi thriller. "Every day Yaphet Kotto blew me away on the set of Alien,” Weaver wrote in a short statement. “He just went for it in every scene, making the…

Yaphet Kotto, the actor known for indelible roles in Homicide: Life on the Street, Alien and Midnight Run, as well as for being the first major Black James Bond villain in Live and Let Die, has died. He was 81. Kotto’s wife, Tessie Sinahon, first revealed the news on Facebook, and Kotto’s agent confirmed his death to…

David Giler, a writer, producer or both on some of the most high-profile films of the 1970s and ’80s, from the controversial Myra Breckinridge to the immensely popular Alien franchise, died of cancer Dec. 19 at his home in Bangkok. He was 77. His death was announced by spokesman Jeff Sanderson. "If you knew David, you…