Introduction
Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series (also known as Alien: Isolation) is an American animated science fiction horror web television series directed by Fabien Dubois, based on the Alien franchise created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, and the 2014 video game of the same name by Alistair Hope, that premiered on 28 February 2019 on IGN.
The series was created by Kinga Smith and Fabian DuBois and stars much of the cast of the video game.
It takes place 15 years after the events of the 1979 Alien film and follows Amanda Ripley, daughter of Alien protagonist Ellen Ripley, as she investigates the disappearance of her mother.
Outline
Alien: Isolation takes place 15 years after the original film and follows Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley, as she accompanies a Weyland-Yutani team being sent to retrieve the flight recorder of her mother’s ship, the Nostromo, recently located by the crew of a salvage vessel Anesidora and being held aboard the Seegson corporation remote Sevastopol space station in orbit around the KG-348 gas giant, on request of Christopher Samuels, an android working for the Weyland-Yutani corporation, so that Ripley can have closure regarding the fate of her missing mother.
Ripley, Samuels, and Weyland-Yutani executive Nina Taylor travel to Sevastopol on board the Torrens courier ship, only to find the station damaged and its communications offline.
After attempting to spacewalk over to the station to investigate, their EVA line is severed by debris, and Ripley is separated from the others and forced to enter the station on her own, encountering hostile androids, humans, and an unknown alien organism.
Cast
- Main:
- Andrea Deck as Amanda Ripley/Ellen Ripley (“Episodes 6 & 7”)
- Kezia Burrows provided the motion capture and likeness for Amanda Ripley.
- Anthony Howell as Christopher Samuels
- Emerald O’Hanrahan as Nina Taylor.
- Sean Gilder as Henry Marlow.
- Andrea Deck as Amanda Ripley/Ellen Ripley (“Episodes 6 & 7”)
- Recurring:
- Richie Campbell as Ricardo.
- Syrus Lowe provided the motion capture and likeness for Ricardo.
- William Hope as Marshal Waits.
- Richie Campbell as Ricardo.
- Guest:
- Jane Perry as Diane Verlaine (“Episode 1”).
- George Anton as Axel (“Episode 2”).
- Melanie Gutteridge as Catherine Foster (“Episode 4”).
Production
Development
On 13 February 2019, Bloody Disgusting reported that two Alien television series were in development, one animated and one live-action.
On 20 February 2019, Axis Animation reported that a seven-episode animated adaption of the 2014 video game Alien: Isolation was in development.
On 27 February 2019, it was announced that IGN had given the production of Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series a series order to consist of seven quarter hour episodes, each consisting of a combination of cut scenes from the game, newly rendered scenes, and first-person segments in the game that were re-shot and edited for the purposes of the web television series, to be exclusively released on IGN the following day. The series was set to be written by Jeff Juhasz and produced by Reverse Engineering Studios (RES) and DVgroup.
Casting
Alongside the initial series announcement, it was reported that the cast of the original Alien: Isolation game would reprise their characters for the series, including Andrea Deck as Amanda and Ellen Ripley.
Marketing
On 27 February 2019, the official trailer was released which included the announcement that the show would premiere on 28 February 2019.
Crossover
The Alien vs. Predator franchise combines the continuities of the Alien franchise with the Predator franchise and consists of two films as well as various series of comics, books, and video games.
Alien Series
You can find a full index and overview of the Alien Series here.
Production & Filming Details
- Director(s): Fabien Dubois.
- Producer(s): George Goldman, Julien Mokrani, Thomas Villepoux, Antoine Cardon, Kinga Smith, and Eric Fantone.
- Writer(s): Jeff Juhasz, Dan Abnett, Dion Lay, and Will Porter.
- Music: Joe Henson, Alexis Smith, and Christian Henson.
- Cinematography:
- Editor(s): Romain Rioult.
- Production: Reverse Engineering Studios (RES), TitraFilm, DVgroup, 20th Century Fox, and IGN.
- Distributor(s): IGN.
- Release Date: 28 February 2019.
- Running Time: 8-14 minutes (per episode).
- Rating: 15.
- Country: US.
- Language: English.
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