A new Alien: Earth teaser has set up the alien invasion of earth the show revolves around.
The brief clip, below, shows events from the point of view of an alien as it races through the interior of a spaceship that’s hurtling toward Earth itself. We hear a repeated warning of a containment breach (pretty obvious given there’s an alien running around) while the alien screeches its way to a window slam. The camera then pulls back to reveal the spaceship entering the earth’s atmosphere, which looks ominous for earth.
Destination: Earth. Impact: Imminent. #AlienEarthFX, an all-new original series, premieres this Summer on #DisneyPlusCA. pic.twitter.com/P7rXb5gGcG
— Disney+ Canada 🇨🇦 (@DisneyPlusCA) January 27, 2025
Alien: Earth sees a mysterious space vessel (the one we now see in the promo) crash-land on Earth, with a young woman (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers making “a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.”
FX’s Alien series is set in 2120, well after Prometheus and just two years before Alien and the unfortunate events that befell the crew of the Nostromo. Because of this setting within the Alien timeline, fans have speculated that Alien: Earth may depict the Nostromo leaving Earth, or reveal how evil megacorp Weyland-Yutani found out about the Xenomorphs. As a reference point, the recently released interquel Alien: Romulus takes place between Alien and Aliens.
In January last year, showrunner Noah Hawley explained why he is not using the backstory provided in Prometheus for Alien: Earth, saying he likes the “retro-futurism” of the original films. Hawley said he spoke to Alien chief Ridley Scott about “many, many elements” of the Alien series, including its ties to the prequels, but ultimately decided to cut loose and move away from the bioweapon backstory because he preferred the lore of the original films.
FX’s Alien: Earth hits Hulu in summer 2025. Alien: Romulus 2 is also in the works.
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