He has been authorised by Ridley Scott to completely ignore the narrative events established in Prometheus.
In the first Alien films, the terrifying Xenomorphs were described as a “perfect organism” that had evolved over millennia to become the ultimate predator. However, this was undermined by creator Ridley Scott himself in the film Prometheus, where it was revealed that these creatures are actually partially designed, not developed through evolution.
But the creator of the upcoming Alien series on FX, Noah Hawley, chooses to completely ignore this, and apparently Scott has allowed him to do so. Via The Hollywood Reporter it seems that Xenomorphs will again develop by evolution, not design:
“For me, and for a lot of people, this ‘perfect life form’ — as it was described in the first film — is the product of millions of years of evolution that created this creature that may have existed for a million years out there in space.
