Alien 40th Anniversary Short Film: “Alone”
To celebrate Alien’s 40th anniversary and in partnership with Tongal, 20th Century Fox is releasing new Alien-universe fan-made short films leading up to Alien Day on April 26th. Written and directed by Noah Miller, the synopsis for “Alone” reads, “Hope, an abandoned crew member aboard the derelict chemical hauler Otranto, has spent a year trying to keep her ship and herself alive as both slowly fall apart. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it all to power up the broken ship in search of human life.”
A notable exception is writer-director Noah Miller’s “Alone,” which follows a woman named Hope who’s hurtling through space on her lonesome. She eventually gains access to a restricted part of her ship after a system malfunction, and you can probably guess what’s on the other side of that sealed-off door. Hope’s non-reaction to first contact with the facehugger is bizarre until we realize, in the next scene, that she’s an android and thus not a viable host. What develops is, if not a friendship, then something we’ve never seen in “Alien” before: peaceful coexistence between a xenomorph and literally any other species.
