&34;Predator: Badlands&34; just featured an &34;Alien&34; Easter egg — but will Noah Hawley's TV series return the favor? Alien: Earth creator reveals if fans will get a Predator crossover in future season &34;Predator: Badlands&34; just featured an &34;Alien&34; Easter egg — but will Noah Hawley's TV series return the favor? By Ryan Coleman :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/RyanColemanauthorphoto0081ce8f0254478080f35972c433877b.jpg) Ryan Coleman Ryan Coleman is a news writer for with previous work in MUBI Notebook, Slant, and the LA Review of Books.

"Predator: Badlands" just featured an "Alien" Easter egg — but will Noah Hawley's TV series return the favor?

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

"Predator: Badlands" just featured an "Alien" Easter egg — but will Noah Hawley's TV series return the favor?

By Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman is a news writer for with previous work in MUBI Notebook, Slant, and the LA Review of Books.

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A xenomorph on 'Alien: Earth'; a Yautja in 'Predator: Badlands'. Credit:

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- *Alien: Earth *creator Noah Hawley is finally addressing if fans will get a *Predator *crossover on the show.

- Hawley said he loves what *Prey *and *Predator: Badlands *director Dan Trachtenberg has done with the *Alien *franchise.

- *Predator: Badlands*, the most recent entry in the *Predator *franchise, included an *Alien *Easter egg.

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."**

Timothy Olyphant, Sydney Chandler, and Samuel Blenkin in 'Alien: Earth'.

Patrick Brown/FX

"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.**

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