Original title: ‘Alien: Earth’ Creator on That Wild Stand-Alone Movie Episode and Elon Musk-Inspired Twist
[This story contains spoilers from Alien: Earth‘s fifth episode, “In Space, No One…”] Alien: Earth gave franchise fans an unexpected treat with its fifth episode: A mini-Alien movie that feels like the FX drama took Ridley Scott‘s 1979 original film and re-imagined its core elements as a unique one-hour story. Aptly titled “In Space, No One…” (playing off the original film’s famous marketing tagline, “In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream”), the flashback episode showed what happened aboard the ill-fated USCSS Maginot that caused its dangerous creatures to escape and the ship to crash into Earth. With the ship’s interior sets as a near replica of those from the first film’s ship, Nostromo, the action played like an alternate universe version of the decades-old film that we’d never seen before. The sequence also contained a twist that upended many of the audience’s assumptions about the previous episodes and was inspired by the antics of a certain tech billionaire. “This allowed me — in