Watch Fargo or Legion and you may have a better guess as to what Noah Hawley would do with Alien or how he isn't beholden to the original take on the material. Fargo is set in the same world as the movie but is definitely its own great thing and Legion has almost no resemblance to X-Men comics...
I'm not really expecting this to end up happening but I'm curious to see how Hawley would handle it. I'm guessing he won't go wildly different like he did with Legion (where it bears almost no resemblance to the X-Men comic books or movies) but I expect him to have his own unique take and not...