Noah Hawley

Noah Hawley (born 1967) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, author, and singer. He is best known for creating and writing the FX series Fargo (2014–present) and Legion (2017–2019). He also worked on the series Bones (2005–2008), The Unusuals (2009), and My Generation (2010). Hawley wrote the film The Alibi (2006) and directed the film Lucy in the Sky (2019). He has also written six novels and is a singer, contributing to the soundtracks of Fargo and Legion by singing covers of popular music produced by composer Jeff Russo. He will write and direct the upcoming FX series Alien: Earth, based on the film franchise and expected to premiere in 2025. Description above from the Wikipedia article Noah Hawley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

Release Date2015-08-02

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On Story

An inside look at the creative process behind some of our most popular and beloved movies and television shows. All episodes feature recorded conversations between acclaimed and award-winning screenwriters, TV creators, and filmmakers from the Austin Film Festival's annual conference and year round events.

Release Date2011-04-16

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Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls

Go behind the scenes of the second season of Fargo.

Release Date2016-02-23

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Bones

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

Release Date2005-09-13

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Episode Count6

Vote Count3284

Legion

David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.

Release Date2017-02-08

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Episode Count27

Vote Count1443

Fargo

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

Release Date2014-04-15

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Episode Count38

Vote Count2903

Alien: Earth

When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.

Release Date2025-08-12

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Episode Count8

My Generation

A documentary crew follows the stories of nine classmates during their high school years in Austin, Texas, and then revisits them ten years later to examine how far they have come.

Release Date2010-09-23

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JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

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The Unusuals

The Unusuals is a comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC from April 8 to June 17, 2009 in the U.S. and Global in Canada. The pilot and first episode were written by Noah Hawley, a former writer and producer for Fox's Bones. An ABC press release described The Unusuals as "like a modern-day M*A*S*H" that "explores both the grounded drama and comic insanity of the world of New York City police detectives, where every cop has a secret". Its premise elaborated: The initial series order was for 10 episodes. Show creator Noah Hawley announced via his Twitter account in mid-May 2009 that ABC would not be bringing the show back for a second season.

Release Date2009-04-08

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The Alibi

Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to clients who have been unfaithful to their significant others. It seems that the streetwise Ray has found his calling, until he unexpectedly becomes a murder suspect in a case involving one of his most influential customers. Now, as the police and an assassin called "The Mormon" track Ray, he and his attractive assistant, Lola, must clear their own names.

Release Date2006-01-12

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Vote Count112

Lucy in the Sky

Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space – and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.

Release Date2019-09-20

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Vote Count217

Lost Souls

The film is set in a world in which some babies are born without souls. A young expectant mother is sent to an unusual wellness center in the desert, with the hopes that it will improve her chances of delivering a healthy baby.

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Nowhere Fast

A small-town criminal inadvertently kills the nephew of his boss.

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