Alien: Earth creator reveals if fans will get a Predator crossover in future season

Noah Hawley's beguiling new sci-fi horror show, Alien: Earth, is one of the most surprising riffs on Alien franchise lore. But will he venture into Alien vs. Predator territory?

The modern TV master behind Fargo and Legion finally addressed fan speculation over the possibility of an AVP–style crossover on the FX series, which has run rampant ever since Predator: Badlands, the most recent entry in the Predator franchise, included an Alien Easter egg.

His response when he appeared on a recent episode of SmartLess?

"No, not onto the show, I don't think," Hawley said.

"I mean, I think Dan Trachtenberg, who made Prey and has made the Badlands movie — I mean, I loved Prey," he added. "I think he's doing a great job with that franchise. He clearly has a plan there."

"You know, I've met Dan once," Hawley revealed. "We are not kind of coordinating any of that stuff, so it's not really my plan to do it."

In an industry in which creators embrace strategic ambiguity as the golden rule for development plans, Hawley's honesty might be refreshing to some fans. But his answer will also no doubt disappoint others who've been hoping to one day see a Yautja warrior suddenly barrel into New Siam for an epic confrontation with a xenomorph.

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Trachtenberg's well received new addition to the Predator canon included a major tie-in to Alien that was subtle enough that it wouldn't confuse casual fans, but obvious enough to super-fans that it stoked excited speculation.

Predator: Badlands follows Dek, a young Predator (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) who crash-lands on a wild planet and teams up with a human-synthetic hybrid, or synth, named Thia (Elle Fanning). Thia and her fellow synths were dispatched to the planet by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, a corrupt conglomerate that showed up as an antagonistic force in the original 1979 movie Alien.

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Also simply known as The Company because of its global ubiquity and dominance, Weyland-Yutani also looms large in Alien: Earth. Hawley's series depicts a world controlled by five corporations, Weyland-Yutani chief among them, and also features a prominent synth character, Sydney Chandler's Wendy.

The sci-fi franchises first crossed paths in a 1989 Alien comic. The following year, the movie Predator 2 featured a brief but memorable Easter egg, at one point quickly cutting to a xenomorph skull. Since that Alien cameo, two Alien vs. Predator films have brought the grisly, violent creatures face-to-face in extended battles: 2004's Alien vs. Predator and its 2007 sequel, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.

Despite the myriad interconnections, AVP fans will have to wait for Hawley to change his mind about Alien: Earth. Never say never.