News Alien: Earth Here’s How Alien: Earth’s USCCS Maginot Eerily Evokes Alien’s Nostromo It turns out that they were made by the same company. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on September 3, 2025 Credit: Patrick Brown/FX Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Patrick Brown/FX The latest episode of Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth is a flashback to the fate of the USCCS Maginot, the spaceship whose crew members (with the exception of Babou Ceesay’s Morrow) meet violent ends. If you’re an Alien fan, the Maginot undoubtedly looks familiar, with many elements evoking the look of the Nostromo, the ship at the center of the events in 1979’s Alien. Those similarities, unsurprisingly, were intentional.   “I had a conversation with Noah Hawley about the Maginot and how that interior should be made by the same company as the Nostromo,” production designer Andy Nicholson said in the show’s press materials. “The Maginot is a Weyland-Yutani spaceship. Yutani was a manufacturer of the Nostromo, so we kept the overall design aesthetic that was first seen in Alien. You’ll see the same approach to design throughout the Maginot—there are rooms that are very similar stylisticalwaly and then identical in details to the original Nostromo in terms of the mess hall, the cryochamber. There are differences because of the type of ship the Maginot is, and there are new rooms, but a lot of the details are if they were made by the same manufacturer—much as you’d find when you fly on a different Boeing type of Boeing aircraft.” He added, “I just dove into the same kind of historical research I do for any show if I was replicating a period in time. We looked at the movie, studied all the details and I tried to find as many online photographs as possible.” The Maginot bridge, explained Nicholson, was “recreated entirely from photo reference, studying the movie behind-the-scenes stills and a lot of pouring over details and individual frames—it became a historical reference point for us.” In an interview for Gold Derby, Nicholson also shared that a contact from Disney archives eventually gave him additional details. “They actually had digitized all of the original 1979 drawings, which was marvelous,” he said. “It helped us with a couple of things, like the ceiling height in the bridge, and the mess hall with a couple of cupboards.” Another fun fact we got from Hawley in the Gold Derby piece is that the set initially had to look damaged from the crash for filming, and they then had to fix it up to look like the functional ship it was before the crash. The end result for the cast and crew was mind-blowing. “It’s surreal the first time that you [board the Maginot],” Hawley told Gold Derby. “The only way I can describe it is that it collapses time, and you are fourteen again in that moment. The first time you walk into that comms room with all the lights, or the bridge or the mess hall, which were exact replicas [of the Nostromo], it collapses time. And then you turn around and you watch every single person who steps onto that set have that same moment.” New episodes of Alien: Earth premiere on FX and Hulu on Tuesdays. [end-mark] The post Here’s How <i>Alien: Earth</i>’s USCCS <i>Maginot</i> Eerily Evokes <i>Alien</i>’s <i>Nostromo</i> appeared first on Reactor.