The first-ever series based on the Alien universe is hitting this summer, in the form of Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth on FX and Hulu. The latest teaser gives us some big hints at the horrors to come. Alien: Earth takes place about 70 years into our future, well before Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley encountered the Xenomorphs on LV-426. Alien: Earth doesn’t look like it will waste any time in getting those acid-for-blood critters onto our vulnerable blue orb. You can check out the new trailer, and read the official description for Alien: Earth, down below:
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 in the sci-fi horror series Alien: Earth. As members of the crash recovery crew search for survivors among the wreckage, they encounter mysterious predatory life forms more terrifying than they could have ever imagined. With this new threat unlocked, the search crew must fight for survival and what they choose to do with this discovery could change planet Earth as they know it.
This new trailer gives a POV shot from the Xenomorph’s perspective. We hear the iconic and creepy sounds from the original 1979 trailer for Ridley Scott’s Alien. As the creature moves through a familiar-looking spaceship, we hear the ship’s central computer voice warning of a containment breach. We then see the Xenomorph is inside a ship that is crashing down on Earth. The ship’s design looks somewhat like the escape life raft from the Nostromo in the original Alien. Although, as we mentioned, this is set many decades before that film. So it’s likely another Weyland-Yutani company vessel.
Our biggest question remains about Alien: Earth. How in the world did the Xenomorphs arrive on our planet that’s teeming with life and not take over? And how did they get here and stay undiscovered to the public until we encountered them again in space? While the new series might ignore Ridley Scott’s Prometheus backstory, we assume it still lines up continuity-wise with the original films. Although, the series will focus more on the creation of artificial life, much like Ash and Bishop in the original films. But we still expect plenty of chest-bursting terror for the new series. As it should be.
Alien: Earth debuts this summer on FX and Hulu.
