FX's latest entry into the Alien universe's canon, Alien: Earth is not only cracking television, but features some genuinely huge sets built in Bangkok for that practical sense of scale.
This being Alien, it's not too much of a spoiler to say that things don't go too well for a lot of people in Alien: Earth, a prequel set two years before the events in the original 1979 (yes, 1979) Ridley Scott film.
The FX series has been created by Noah Hawley, who also has Fargo and the brain-bending Legion to his name, and isn't just content to have the titular aliens crawl around spaceships and alien planets. No, this time round they crash right onto Earth.
The BTS video below shows the deep-space research vessel USCSS Maginot (an impressive bit of nominative foreshadowing there) coming in hard, fast, and extremely uncontrolled. It sees the production dive into a bit of the reasoning behind why it chose the dramatic cityscapes it did to get the digital extension treatment, as well as some of the massive sets that were built into the fabric of Bangkok during the 123-day shoot in Thailand. That included building the crashed USCSS Maginot into the centre of a five-story shopping mall that had been abandoned for 20 years.
"Bangkok feels like a city straight out of the future," location manager, Tunyod Kulviroj, told Time Out. "The striking contrast between old, decaying architecture, rain-soaked streets, and bustling food stalls against sleek, ultra-modern cityscapes creates a quintessential sci-fi atmosphere."