17 Facts About Noah Hawley

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Noah Hawley is set to create a new television series based on the Alien film franchise.

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Noah Hawley's mother, Louise Armstrong, was a non-fiction writer and activist, and his maternal grandmother was a playwright.

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Noah Hawley has a twin brother, Alexi, who has written for the television shows The Following and Castle, and is the creator of State of Affairs, The Rookie, and The Recruit.

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Noah Hawley graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in political science in 1989.

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Noah Hawley worked for the Legal Aid Society in New York City, dealing with cases involving child abuse and neglect.

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Noah Hawley worked in computer programming at law firms and as a paralegal.

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Noah Hawley has published six novels: A Conspiracy of Tall Men, Other People's Weddings, The Punch, The Good Father, Before the Fall, and Anthem, plus one non-fiction work, Fargo: This is a True Story.

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Noah Hawley was a writer and producer on the first three seasons of the television series Bones.

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Noah Hawley was a creator and an executive producer of The Unusuals and My Generation.

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Noah Hawley is the creator, primary writer, and executive producer of the FX anthology television series Fargo, based on the Coen brothers' 1996 film of the same name.

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In December 2015, Noah Hawley extended his production deal with FX.

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Noah Hawley wrote and served as executive producer for Legion, an FX television series based on the Marvel comic book character.

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On December 10,2020, it was announced that Noah Hawley will be creating a television series based on the Alien franchise for FX, for which he will serve as the showrunner, primary writer, and executive producer.

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Noah Hawley wrote the original screenplay for the film The Alibi.

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In September 2014, Noah Hawley signed a deal with Universal Pictures to script an untitled project for their then-upcoming Dark Universe.

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On July 20,2017, Noah Hawley announced at Comic Con that he was writing and directing a Doctor Doom movie with 20th Century Fox.

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In November 2019, it was announced that Noah Hawley would be writing and directing the fourth installment in the rebooted Star Trek franchise.