Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series

Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series is an American adult animated science fiction horror web 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 Creative Assembly, that premiered on February 28, 2019, on IGN. The series was created by Kinga Smith and Fabien Dubois and features most of the actors from the game reprising their roles. It takes place fifteen years after the events of Alien and follows Amanda Ripley, daughter of Alien protagonist Ellen Ripley, as she investigates the disappearance of her mother aboard a decaying space station.

Synopsis

The series takes place fifteen 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 the Nostromo at the 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 corporate counsel Nina Taylor travel to Sevastopol aboard the Torrens, a 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 worker androids, violent human survivors, and an unknown alien organism that stalks her throughout the station.

Cast and characters

Main

Andrea Deck as Amanda Ripley, a freelance ship's engineer determined to learn the fate of her missing mother, Ellen
* Deck also voices Ellen Ripley in episodes 6 and 7.
* Kezia Burrows provided the motion capture and likeness for Amanda Ripley
Anthony Howell as Christopher Samuels, an android and senior employee of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation assigned to lead the team sent to collect Nostromos flight recorder
Emerald O'Hanrahan as Nina Taylor, and up-and-coming lawyer in Weyland-Yutani's legal division tasked with ensuring that the company is absolved of responsibility for the loss of Nostromo
Sean Gilder as Henry Marlow, captain of Anesidora and a survivor trapped aboard Sevastopol

Recurring

Richie Campbell as Ricardo
* Syrus Lowe provided the motion capture and likeness for Ricardo
William Hope as Colonial Marshal Waits, Sevastopol's chief law enforcement officer

Guests

Jane Perry as Diane Verlaine, captain of the Torrens
George Anton as Axel, a survivor and employee of the Sevastopol's maintenance department who teaches Amanda survival skills
Melanie Gutteridge as Catherine Foster

Production

Development

On February 13, 2019, Bloody Disgusting reported that two Alien television series were in development, one animated, one live-action. On February 20, 2019, Axis Animation reported that a seven-episode animated adaptation of the 2014 video game Alien: Isolation was in development. On February 27, 2019, it was announced that IGN had given the production of an Alien: Isolation miniseries 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 streaming 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 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.

Release

Marketing

On February 27, 2019, the official trailer was released which included the announcement that the show would premiere on February 28, 2019.